Japan's Alliance Politics and Defence Production [Hardcover]

Japan's alliance with the United States is examined with reference to defence production and technology-sharing. The alliance's post-Cold-War relevance is considered. It is argued that there is a danger of significant tensions arising in the relationship from parallel rather than identical national interests. A widening gap between the respective interests forms a potentially fatal flaw in the relationship. Failure to move beyond bilateralism to multilateral answers threatens to undermine the search for regional peace.List of Tables and Figures - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Japan's Alliance Politics - Japan's Secondary Alliance Dilemma - Japan's Self-Defence Forces and the Alliance - 'Defence Inc' - Alliance Techno- nationalism - Japan's Alliance after the Cold-War - Notes - IndexNEIL RENWICK is Co-Director of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies and Reader in International Relations at The Nottingham Trent University.