Pacific Alliance

Reviving U.S.-Japan Relations

Kent E. Calder

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9780300146738
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic Theory
• Index: Economics

Despite the enduring importance of the U.S.-Japan security alliance, the broader relationship between the two countries is today beset by sobering new difficulties. In this comprehensive comparative analysis of the transpacific alliance and its political, economic, and social foundations, Kent E. Calder, a leading Japan specialist, asserts that bilateral relations between the two countries are dangerously eroding as both seek broader options in a globally oriented world. Calder documents the quiet erosion of America's multidimensional ties with Japan as China rises, generations change, and new forces arise in both American and Japanese politics. He then assesses consequences for a twenty-first-century military alliance with formidable coordination requirements, explores alternative foreign paradigms for dealing with the United States, adopted by Britain, Germany, and China, and offers prescriptions for restoring U.S.-Japan relations to vitality once again.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Figures
• Preface
• A Note on Conventions
• List of Acronyms
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Quiet Crisis of the Alliance
• Chapter 2. The World That Dulles Built
• Chapter 3. The Notion of Alliance
• Chapter 4. The Economic Basis of National Security
• Chapter 5. Networks: Sinews of the Future
• Chapter 6. An Alliance Transformed: U.S.–Japan Relations since 2001
• Chapter 7. The Global Challenge
• Chapter 8. Alternative Paradigms
• Chapter 9. Prescriptions for the Future
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index