TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hughes,Christopher W.
TI  - Japan's remilitarisation
T2  - Adelphi paper
SN  - 9780415556927
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxon
PB  - Routledge for International Institute for Strategic Studies
KW  - military expenditure
KW  - civil-military relations
KW  - Japan
KW  - defence
KW  - armed forces
KW  - military strategy
KW  - USA
KW  - defence cooperation
KW  - military readiness
KW  - operational readiness
N1  - SIP1208; The trajectory of Japan's remilitarisation -- Japan's military doctrine, expenditure and power projection -- The transformation of civilian control -- Japan's military-industrial complex -- Japan's external military commitments -- The erosion of Japan's anti-militaristic principles -- Conclusion
N2  - 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
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