This study examines how Japanese policy toward Middle East security issues is shaped by the need to both maintain Japan’s security alliance with the US and it

The decisions that shape the policy of weapons procurement are an important area of national security policy. This is all the more true for China, which during

For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military

This book asks why, in the wake of the Cold War, Japan suddenly reversed years of steadfast opposition to security cooperation with its neighbors. Long isolated

As the world's economic and political centre of gravity moves increasingly towards East and South Asia, we can expect a number of countries in these regions to