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The ongoing debate on US hegemonic decline has far-reaching implications for US security relations with Japan. Some argue that both the sagging US economic performance relative to the burgeoning economies of Japan, Western Europe, and even some of the newly industrialising economies, and Washington’s deteriorating ability to sustain its political and security commitments overseas, have caused a precipitous and probably irreversible decline in the US global leadership.1 Others contend that the ‘declinist’ proposition is more imagined than real or that the decline is only a relative and temporary phenomenon, reversible through effective policy measures.
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For proponents of the US hegemonic decline thesis, see, for example, David Calleo, Beyond American Hegemony; The Future of the Western Alliance (New York: Basic Books, 1987);
Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987);
Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (New York: Random House, 1987).
Chalmers Johnson, ‘The End of American Hegemony and the Future of U.S.—Japan Relations’, Harvard International Review, 10th anniversary issue, American Foreign Policy: Toward the 1990s (1989) pp. 127–31.
Robert Cox, ‘Production and Hegemony: Toward a Political Economy of World Order’, in Harold K. Jacobson and Dusan Sidjanski (eds), The Emerging Industrial Economic Order (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1982) p. 45.
Torbjon Knutsen, ‘Hegemony in the Modern International System’, paper prepared for the 1986 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (Washington, 28–31 August 1986) p. 15.
Robert Gilpin, War and Change in World Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981) pp. 17, 156, 187.
See Kenneth B. Pyle, ‘Japan, the World, and the Twenty-first Century’, in Takashi Inoguchi Daniel I. Okimoto, The Political Economy of Japan, Vol. 2, The Changing International Context (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988) pp. 454–6.
John M. Collins, U.S.-Soviet Military Balance,1980–1985 (Washington, DC: Pergamon-Brassey, 1985) p. 139.
Daniel Gallik (ed.), World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers, 1987 (Washington, DC: US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1988).
Chalmers Johnson, ‘Japanese—Soviet Relations in the Early Gorbachev Era’, Asian Survey, 27 (11) (November 1987) pp. 1147–52.
See Tsuneo Akaha, ‘Japan’s Response to Threats of Shipping Disruptions in Southeast Asia and the Middle East’, Pacific Affairs 59(2) (Summer 1986) pp. 255–77.
Dennis T. Yasutomo, The Manner of Giving: Strategic Aid and Japanese Foreign Policy (New York: Lexington, 1986).
Walter Galenson and David W. Galenson, ‘Japan and South Korea’, in David B. H. Denoon, (ed.), Constraints on Strategy: The Economics of Western Security (Washington, DC: Pergamon-Brassey, 1986) p. 157.
See, for example, Hisahiko Okazaki, A Grand Strategy for Japanese Defense (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986);
Kenichi Ito and Fuji Kamiya, ‘Mazakon Kokka Nihon no Katsuro’ (The way out for the nation with a mother complex, Japan’). Shokun (October 1985) pp. 44–59.
Ronald Reagan, National Security Strategy of the United States (Washington, DC: Pergamon-Brassey, 1988) p. 87.
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Akaha, T. (1990). Japan’s Security Policy After US Hegemony. In: Newland, K. (eds) The International Relations of Japan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21016-9_8
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