Reinventing the Alliance: US - Japan Security Partnership in an Era of Change [Hardcover]

This is an edited volume that examines the US-Japan security alliance, the key to US-Japanese relations since the end of US occupation in the 50s. The alliance has long been a source of both co-operation and stress between the two nations, but with rapid changes in Asia, it has grown more problematic. This book brings American and Japanese specialists together to examine the alliance within the wider regional environment and to determine whether and how the bilateral alliance can evolve and remain at the core of the region's security order.Introduction; G.J.Ikenberry & T.Inoguchi SECTION ONE: HISTORICAL AND REGIONAL SETTING Models of Regional Security Order and the US-Japan Alliance; M.Mastanduno From Balancing to Networking: Models of Regional Security in Asia; J.Tsuchiyama Historical Legacies; T.Berger SECTION TWO: SECURITY BILATERALISM AND MULTILATERALISM Alliance Reform and Regional Reactions; M.Kamiya The US-Japan Alliance and Regional Security Institutions; S.Smith Multilateral Security in Asia and the US-Japan Alliance; V.Cha SECTION THREE: NEW DIMENSIONS TO ALLIANCE COOPERATION The 'Revolution in Military Affairs' and Security in Asia; M.O'Hanlon Ballistic Missile Defense and the US-Japan Alliance; U.Tetsuya The Evolution of United Nations Peace Operations and the US-Japan Alliance; S.Stedman UN-PKO; A.Fukushima

The fifty-year old U.S.-Japan alliance demands serious reexamination. The end of the Cold War, the rapid expansion of China and the outbreak of Islamist terror networks have undercut key security premises on which the alliance was forged. Yet these changes make a healthy U.Ss-Japan relationship even more critical to regional stability than before. Ikenberry and Inoguchi lead an impressive array of experts in an ambitious effort to diagnose the alliance in its bilateral and multilateral contexts. The book offers a rich and textured analysis of the present day alliance and an invigorating new mapping of potential fruitful directions. - T.J.