Japan and the IISS

Connecting Western and Japanese Strategic Thought from the Cold War to the War on Ukraine

Robert Ward, Yuka Koshino, Matthieu Lebreton, Robert Ward, Yuka Koshino, Matthieu Lebreton, Robert War Ward, Robert War Ward, Yuka Koshino, Matthieu Lebreton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781032734781
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040025291
• Topic: Politica e relazioni internazionali
• Subtopic: Politica asiatica

Strategic links between Japan and Europe during the Cold War were limited. During this period the IISS helped bridge the gap between the two, exposing its membership base to the international affairs of Asia and Japan and providing Japanese scholars, strategists and diplomats with a platform from which to amplify their voices in the West. Analyses by these experts often appeared in IISS publications, but the Institute also gained key insights through its well-established conferences and lecture series. These initiatives illuminated Japanese strategic thinking and perspectives on contemporary critical issues in Japan's and Asia's foreign, security and defence policy.

This Adelphi book, through its collection of earlier analysis, helps the reader to understand the evolution of Japanese strategic thought from the 1960s until today, and shines a light on the continuities and changes in this thinking. New, original analysis of the material seeks to identify areas where such thinking was prescient and remains relevant to the contemporary strategic environment, and other areas where predictions failed or assumptions were proved wrong. These new essays were also informed by interviews of Japanese senior scholars and diplomats who spent time with the IISS. This book seeks to frame, educate and guide strategic thinking on the most pressing issues of today, both in and outside Japan and Asia, and will be of great interest to analysts, practitioners and students of international affairs.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Editors’ Note
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Map: East Asia
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter One Japan’s bridging role between Asia and the West
• Chapter Two The role of the IISS in bridging Japanese and Western strategic thinking
• Chapter Three The Japanese attitude towards China
• Chapter Four American–Japanese relations
• Chapter Five The Asian balance of power: a comparison with European precedents
• Chapter Six The non-proliferation treaty and Japan
• Chapter Seven Japan’s security in a multipolar world
• Chapter Eight Japan’s non-nuclear policy
• Chapter Nine Options for Japan’s foreign policy
• Chapter Ten The energy problem and alliance systems: Japan
• Chapter Eleven Naval competition and security in East Asia
• Chapter Twelve The changing security circumstances in the 1980s
• Chapter Thirteen The 1984 Alastair Buchan Memorial Lecture
• Chapter Fourteen Japanese security policy: address by Mr Tadashi Kuranari, foreign minister of Japan, 8 September 1986 (excerpts)
• Chapter Sixteen The security of north-east Asia: part I
• Chapter Seventeen Prospects for security co-operation between East Asia and the West
• Chapter Eighteen Japan’s role in international affairs
• Chapter Nineteen What role for Europe in Asian affairs?
• Chapter Twenty Rethinking Japan–US relations: security issues
• Chapter Twenty-One Identities and security in East Asia
• Chapter Twenty-Two China debates missile defence
• Chapter Twenty-Three Great-power relations in Asia: a Japanese perspective
• Chapter Twenty-Four The 13th IISS Asia Security Summit – the Shangri-La Dialogue: keynote address
• Chapter Twenty-Five ‘We are all small countries now’: IISS 2019 Alastair Buchan Lecture
• Chapter Twenty-Six The 19th Regional Security Summit – the Shangri-La Dialogue: keynote address
• Index