Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia

by Richard J. Samuels

Book Overview

For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. Korea's nuclear program, China's rise, and the relative decline of U.S. power have commanded strategic review in Tokyo just as these matters have in Washington. What is the next step for Japan's security policy? Will confluence with U.S. interests--and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801474906
• ISBN13: 9780801474903
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher