Japan's Security Policy and the ASEAN Regional Forum: The Search for Multilateral Security in the Asia-Pacific [Hardcover]

Based on primary resources, including documents and extensive interviews with Japanese policy makers, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed empirical analysis of Japans involvement in Asia-Pacific security multilateralism after the end of the Cold War with special reference to the ARF. Giving an in-depth account of new developments in Japans post-Cold War security policy, Yuzawa also examines:

• Japan's initial motivations, expectations and objectives for promoting regional security multilateralism
• Japan's diplomacy for achieving these objectives and experiences in the ARF since its formation
• the effectiveness and limitations of the ARF with regards national and Asia-Pacific security
• the effects of Japan's experiences in the ARF on its initial conception of regional securty multilateralism and the implications of this for the direction of its overall security policy
• problems and difficulties that arose as a result of Japan's post-Cold War security policy of simultaneously pursuing two different security approaches - namely the strengthening of regional security institutions and the Japan-US alliance.

This book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Japanese security studies, as well as international relations, Asian politics and international organizations.

Introduction&nbsp; 1. Japans Growing Interest in&nbsp;Asia-Pacific Security&nbsp;Multilateralism: The Road to the Nakayama Proposal (1989-1991)&nbsp; 2. The Surge of Japans Enthusiasm for Regional Security Multilateralism and the Formation of the ARF (1992-1993)&nbsp; 3. Japan's Policy on the Evolution of Confidence Building Measures in the ARF&nbsp; 4.&nbsp;Japan's Challenges for Promoting Preventive Diplomacy in the ARF&nbsp; 5. Japan and Multilateral Security Dialogue in the ARF lÃ<