• 1. Introduction: From 'Yoshida Doctrine' To 'Abe Doctrine'?
• 2. The Origins And Ideological Drivers Of The 'Abe Doctrine' Ending The 'Post-War Regime', Restoring Great Power Status Constitutional Revision Historical Revisionism, Challenging The Kono Statement, Patriotic Education Yasukuni Shrine And Challenging The Tokyo Tribunals
• 3. Japan's National Security Under Abe National Security Strategy, National Defence Programme Guidelines, State Secrecy Law Breaching The Arms Export Ban, Militarisation Of ODA Collective Self-Defence Made Reality Radical New Security Precedents
• 4. The 'Abe Doctrine' And US-Japan Relations Revising The US-Japan Defence Guidelines, Futenma Relocation, TPP Negotiations Fears Of Abandonment, Resistance In Okinawa, Trade Blockages Distrust Over Revisionism And Yasukuni Who Is Entrapping Whom?
• 5. Japan's Relations Under Abe With China, The Korean Peninsula, And ASEAN Encircling China More Progress With North Korea Than South Korea? Abe Isolates Japan, China Encircles Japan? Sino-Japanese Stalemate?
• 6. Conclusion: 'Abe Doctrine' As Revolution Or Contradictory Failure? Three Great Contradictions Resentful Realism Redux.
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Prime Minister Abe Shinzo's foreign and security policy-highly charged with ideological and historical revisionism-contains the potential to shift Japan onto a new international trajectory. Its degree of articulation and energy makes for an 'Abe doctrine' capable of displacing the 'Yoshida Doctrine' that has been Japan's guiding grand strategy in the post-war period. Abe has already begun to introduce radical policies that look to transform national security policy into a more muscular military stance, bolster US-Japan alliance ties to function increasingly for regional and global security, and attempt to encircle China's influence in East Asia. The 'Abe Doctrine' is dynamic but also high-risk. Abe's revisionism contains fundamental contradictions that may ultimately limit the effectiveness, or even defeat, the doctrine, and along the way inflict collateral damage on relations with East Asia and Japan's own national interests.
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• Introduction
• 1. The Trajectory of Japan's Remilitarisation
• 2. Japan's Military Doctrine, Expenditure and Power Projection
• 3. The Transformation of Civilian Control
• 4. Japan's Military-Industrial Complex
• 5. Japan's External Military Commitments
• 6. The Erosion of Japan's Anti-militaristic Principles Conclusion: Japan's remilitarisation: implications and future directions Appendix: Tables and charts.
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Is Japan on a path towards assuming a greater military role internationally, or has the recent military normalisation ground to a halt since the premiership of Junichiro Koizumi? In this book, Christopher W. Hughes assesses developments in defence expenditure, civil-military relations, domestic and international military-industrial complexes, Japan's procurement of regional and global power-projection capabilities, the expansion of US-Japan cooperation, and attitudes towards nuclear weapons, constitutional revision and the use of military force. In all of these areas, dynamic and long-term changes outweigh Japan's short-term political logjam over security policy. Hughes argues that many post-war constraints on Japan's military role are still eroding, and that Tokyo is moving towards a more assertive military role and strengthened US-Japan cooperation. Japan's remilitarisation will boost its international security role and the dominance of the US-Japan alliance in regional and global security affairs, but will need to be carefully managed if it is not to become a source of destabilising tensions.

• INTRODUCTION--
• 1. Japan's post-war security trajectory and policy system-- The Yoshida doctrine-- Japan's security policy-making system: leaning towards immobilism--
• 2. Japan's shifting security trajectory and policy system-- Japan's security environment: global, regional, alliance and domestic crises-- Japan's new security policy debate: towards a 'normal' state?-- Japan's newly proactive policy-making system--
• 3. Japan's national security policy and capabilities-- National Defence Programme Outline revision-- National emergency legislation-- Japan's military hardware: pursuing power projection capabilities-- Challenging post-war security taboos and constitutional restraints--
• 4. Forging a strengthened US-Japan alliance-- Rescuing the alliance-- Revision of the Japan-US Guidelines for Defence Cooperation-- Okinawa, US bases and force realignments-- Ballistic Missile Defence--
• 5. Japan, regional cooperation, multilateral security and the 'war on terror'-- Bilateral regional security dialogue-- Anti-piracy cooperation-- Multilateral security dialogue and exercises-- Japan and UN PKO-- Japan and the 'war on terror' in Afganistan and Iraq-- CONCLUSION-- Japan locks itself into the US-Japan alliance-- Japan and the regional security order: reinforcing US hegemony-- NOTES.
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Is Japan re-emerging as a normal, or even a great, military power in regional and global security affairs? This Adelphi Paper assesses the overall trajectory of Japan's security policy over the last decade, and the impact of a changing Japanese military posture on the stability of East Asia. The paper examines Japan's evolving security debate, set against the background of a shifting international environment and domestic policymaking system; the status of Japan's national military capabilities and constitutional prohibitions; post-Cold War developments in the US Japan alliance; and Japan's role in multilateral regional security dialogue, UN PKO, and US-led coalitions of the willing. It concludes that Japan is undoubtedly moving along the trajectory of becoming a more assertive military power, and that this trend has been accelerated post-9/11. Japan is unlikely, though, to channel its military power through greatly different frameworks than at present. Japan will opt for the enhanced, and probably inextricable, integration of its military capabilities into the US Japan alliance, rather than pursuing options for greater autonomy or multilateralism. Japan's strengthened role as the defensive shield for the offensive sword of US power projection will only serve to bolster US military hegemony in East Asia and globally.
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Long constrained as a security actor by constitutional as well as external factors, Japan now increasingly is called to play a greater role in stabilizing both the Asia-Pacific region and the entire international system. Japan's Security Agenda explores the country's diplomatic, political, military, and economic concerns and policies within this new context.
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• Title page ; Copyright page ; Contents ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Japan and East Asian Security; Approaches; Contribution; Structure;
• Chapter 1- Security Concepts: A Multidimensional Framework; Definitions of Security; Security Actors: Referent Objects; Substate and Nonstate Groupsas Referent Objects of Security; Security Actors: Deniers and Suppliers of Security; The Military Security Dimension; The Economic Security Dimension; The Environmental Security Dimension; Approaches to Achieving Security; Capacity:Political/Diplomatic, Military, and Economic Power.

• Conclusion: The Complex Security Agendaand Comprehensive Responses
• Chapter 2- East Asia's Cold War Security Agenda; East Asian Security Dynamics; Decolonization and the Political Economy; Decolonization and Bipolarization; Security Actors, Threats, and Responses; Conclusion: East Asia and Japan'sEmerging Comprehensive Security Agenda;
• Chapter 3- East Asia's Contemporary Security Agenda; East Asian Security Dynamics; Table 3.1 GDP Growth Rates in East Asia, 1996-2000; Security Actors, Threats, and Responses; Conclusion: A Comprehensive Security Agenda.

• Chapter 4- Japan's Comprehensive Security Policies in the Cold War EraJapanese Conceptions of Security; Japanese Security Policyin the Immediate Postwar Period; Japan's Cold War Strategic Security Interests; Japan's Cold War Military Security Policy; Japan's Cold War Military Security Policy; Japan's Cold War Economic Security Policy; Japan's Cold War Environmental Security Policy; Conclusion:Japan's Emerging Comprehensive Security Policy;
• Chapter 5- Japan's Contemporary Military Security Policy; Japanese Security Debates in the Post-Cold War Period.

• Japan's Post-Cold War Security Threat PerceptionsJapan's Military Security Policyin the Post-Cold War Period; Japan's Bilateral Military Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Period; Table 5.1 Functions and Fields and Examples of Items of Cooperation in Areas Surrounding Japan Under the Revised 1997 DefenseGuidelines; Japan's Multilateral Military Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Period; Box 5.1 Military Exchanges Between Japan and South Korea(ROK), 1979-2001; Box 5.2 Military Exchanges Between Japan and ASEAN, 1988-2002; Box 5.3 Military Exchanges Between Japan and China (PRC), 1985-2000.

• Conclusion: Japan as a "Normal" Military Power?
• Chapter 6- Japan's Contemporary Economic and Environmental Security Policy; Economic Security Threat Perceptions and Responses; Table 6.1 Reports of Armed Robbery and Hijacking Piratical Incidents Toward Japanese-Related Shipping, 1989-2001; Environmental Security ThreatPerceptions and Responses; Conclusion: Japan as a Multidimensional Security Actor;
• Chapter 7- Conclusion: The Trajectory of Japanese Security Policy; Japan's Trajectory and Effectiveness as a Security Actor in East Asia and Globally; Acronyms; References; Index; About the Book.

Long constrained as a security actor by constitutional as well as external factors, Japan now increasingly is called to play a greater role in stabilizing both the Asia-Pacific region and the entire international system. Japan's Security Agenda explores the country's diplomatic, political, military, and economic concerns and policies within this new context.
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• List of tables and figures. Acknowledgements. Glossary. Introduction. Glaobal and Japanese conceptions of power and security in the post-Cold War era. Theory of economic power and security. Military and economic conceptions of the North Korean security problem. Japanese economic power and North Korea. The Japanese policy-making process and economic versus military security. Conclusion. References.
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The world is faced with a diverse range of security challenges in the post-Cold War era. As globalization continues apace, alternative options, other than the military, are needed to counter these challenges and ensure greater peace and stability. This new book is concerned with the security policy of Japan and in particular how it can exert its economic strength to alleviate the military tension on the Korean peninsular and surrounding region. It also provides a thorough analysis of new trends in Japanese security policy, the strengthening of its role in the region and the changing nature of the alliance with the US. Japan's Economic Power and Security is the first study to investigate, in depth, Japan's reaction to the diplomatic, military and economic security crisis generated by North Korea. Christopher W. Hughes reinterprets conventional views of Korean Peninsular security, Japanese foreign and security policy and the function of economic power in ensuring peace and stability.
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For China, Taiwan is next in line to be unified with the People's Republic after Hong Kong in 1997. China's claim on Taiwan is of great importance to the politics of Chinese Nationalism, and is central to the dynamics of power in this most volatile of regions. The democratic challenge from Taiwan is very potent and its status and identity within the international community is crucial to its survival. Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism explores how Taiwan's status has come to be a symbol for the legitimacy of the Chinese regime in the evolution of Chinese nationalism. It also demonstrates how this view has been challenged by demands for democratization in Taiwan. The KMT regime is shown to have allowed sovereignty to be practised by the population of the island while maintaining the claim that it is a part of China. The result is a "post-nationalist" identity for the island in an intermediate state between independence and unification with the PRC.
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• 1. Introduction: East Asia and food (in)security Shaun Breslin and Christopher W. Hughes
• 2. Rice security in Southeast Asia: beggar thy neighbor or cooperation? Amy Freedman
• 3. Food in China's international relations Daojiong Zha and Hongzhou Zhang
• 4. Supermarkets, iron buffalos and agrarian myths: exploring the drivers and impediments to food systems modernisation in Southeast Asia J. Jackson Ewing
• 5. Food security, the palm oil-land conflict nexus, and sustainability: a governance role for a private multi-stakeholder regime like the RSPO? Helen E. S. Nesadurai
• 6. Going out: China's food security from Southeast Asia Nicholas Thomas
• 7. 'Land grabbing' or harnessing of development potential in agriculture? East Asia's land-based investments in Africa Franklyn Lisk
• 8. Food security: global trends and regional perspective with reference to East Asia Ching-Cheng Chang, Huey-Lin Lee and Shih-Hsun Hsu.
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This book presents a study of perceptions of food insecurity in East Asia, and explores how individual countries are developing strategies to deal with the situation. It also looks at how the perception of food insecurity has increasingly influenced the nature of international interactions, not just within East Asia, but also in the region's relations with major external actors. Many of the challenges facing East Asia are generic food security issues that face people and governments across the world - for example, the implications of climate change and demographic changes on food supplies. This book places the East Asian context in the wider discussion of food (in)security in global politics. However, it also identifies potential regional 'differences' - for example, the significance of rice for the region, and the unavoidable impact of China as a major regional player. What the Chinese state, and Chinese companies, decide to do in response to concerns about food insecurity have an impact not just on the rest of the region, but on the rest of the world. Taking too much of a Sinocentric focus, however, ignores other actors in East Asia, or merely relegates discussion to how they respond to Chinese policies or external strategies. This book considers the region as a whole, both when it comes to thinking about food security challenges and responses within the region itself, and also in the outward projection of regional food insecurity on the rest of the world. This book was published as a special issue of The Pacific Review.
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• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Globalization, Political Violence and Translation: An Introduction-- E.Bielsa PART I: INTERPRETING GLOBAL VIOLENCE Terminal Paradox of Globalization-- K.Tester Translating Terror: Siting Truth, Justice and Rights Amidst the Two 'Terror' Wars-- U.Baxi Ethics and Violence-- A.Aguilera The Sovereign, the Martyr and 'Just War' Beyond the Jus Publicum Europaeum: The Dilemma of Political Theology-- S.Wiegel PART II: NARRATIVES OF GLOBAL TERROR Semantic Asymmetries and 'The War on Terror'-- M.Montgomery Missiles in Athens and Tanks at Heathrow: Urban Security and the Materialization of 'Global Threat'-- S.Price Between Exceptionalism and Universalism: Photography as Cultural Diplomacy-- L.Kennedy PART III: TRANSLATING TERROR Translation, Ethics and Ideology in a Violent Globalizing World-- M.Tymoczko Translation - 9/11: Terrorism, Immigration, Language Politics-- E.Apter Translators in War Zones: Ethics Under Fire in Iraq-- M.Inghilleri Resisting State Terror: Theorizing Communities of Activist Translators and Interpreters-- M.Baker Conclusion: Globalization, Political Violence and Security-- C.W.Hughes Index.
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The events of 11 September 2001 revealed that the nature of political violence has radically changed under globalization, while the launch of a 'war on terror' has generated important ethical and human rights issues. At the same time, the key but often invisible role played by translation and translators of all sorts in mediating conflict has become the object of new critical attention. This book focuses on the relationship between globalization, political violence and translation, developing new interdisciplinary perspectives and generating novel lines of debate for globalization research. Written by leading scholars in a wide range of disciplines (ranging from law, philosophy, politics and sociology to media studies and translation studies) the book provides key theoretical insights into the globalization of violence and the role of translation in this context, while also incorporating detailed empirical analyses of media representations and translators' accounts.
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• "List of Contributors. Preface and Acknowledgements." Part I: Introduction
• 1. Globalization's Shadow: An Introduction to the Globalization of Political Violence "Richard Devetak" Part II: Military Force
• 2. Globalization and Military Force(s) "Graeme Cheeseman"
• 3. Cosmopolitanism and Military Intervention "William Smith and Robert Fine" Part III: Global Insecurity
• 4. Globalization and Political Violence: The Environmental Connection "Lorraine Elliott"
• 5. International Legal Responses to WMD proliferation "Daniel H. Joyner" Part IV: States of Violence
• 6. The Globalization of Violence against Refugees "Sharon Pickering"
• 7. Old Violences, New Challenges: The Adaptation of Basque ETA to its Changing Environment "Asta Maskaliunaite" Part V: State Failure and the Global Economy
• 8. State Failure and Intervention in Africa "Paul-Simon Handy and Dunja Speiser"
• 9. Post-Conflict Recovery: New Wars and the Global Economy "Tony Addison" Part VI: Counter-Globalizations
• 10. Antipodal Terrorists? Accounting for Differences in Australian "Global" Neojihadists "Peter Lentini"
• 11. "Viva Nihilism!" On Militancy and Machismo in (Anti-) Globalization Protest "Sian Sullivan "Bibliography.
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The events of the 11th of September 2001 revealed most dramatically that globalization has a shadow. While large sections of the world's population enjoy the perceived benefits of globalization, others seek to utilize globalization for their own politically violent purposes. If 9/11 demonstrated anything, it is that globalization can as readily facilitate violence and insecurity as it can produce stability, prosperity and political order. This edited volume offers important new methodological and multi-disciplinary insights into the study of globalization and political violence. It brings together studies from various disciplines in order to address the precise nature of the relationship between globalization and political violence as it seeks to offer new theoretical and empirical understandings of the types of actors involved in political violence, either as perpetrators or victims.Examples of the studies include the changing character of state militaries and state-to-state conflict under globalization, the emergence of 'new wars' fuelled by globalization, the role of state militaries in intervention, new forms of violence directed by states against refugees and anti-globalization protesters, the role of terrorist actors post-9/11, networks for the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the rise of private military firms amongst others. "The Globalization of Political Violence" will be of interest to students and researchers of politics, international relations, security studies and international political economy.
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• This book explores the relationship between regionalisation and global governance, surveying the theoretical debates, economic dimensions, security considerations and governing structures It fills a niche in the market where most of the publications deal with either globalisation or regionalisation/regionalism, but rarely with the connections between these two important processes The book features contributions from well known experts from a variety of disciplines including: international relations, area studies, international economics, international political economy, political science, public administration and development studies The topic is widely taught at post-graduate level and at upper undergarduate level.
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The relationship between global governance and regionalisation is fraught with ambiguity. Understanding regionalisation in this context requires an understanding of its relationship, and reactive condition, with both the constellations of global governance and globalisation. This book presents an overview and explores the distinctive but intersecting trajectories of regionalisation and global governance. It surveys: the theoretical debates; the economic dimensions: multinationals, trade and investment, and labour; the security considerations: armed conflict, conflict prevention and peacekeeping and non-traditional security in Asia; the governing structures: managing contemporary multilevel architecture and cultural policy, leadership; and the L-20.The expert and multi-disciplinary editors and contributors survey the context as well as the general character of these projects, together with their links as both parallel mediating mechanisms and distinctive choices for interjecting governance into globalisation. Examining these projects in tandem amplifies their importance and enables the author tease out coincidental as well as alternative possibilities in policy direction. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, area studies, international economics, international political economy, political science, public administration and development studies.
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