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The U.S.-Japan Security Alliance Why It Matters and How to Strengthen It
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Ted Osius
Foreword by Watanabe Akio
Published with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.
Book Code: C7805
ISBN: 0-275-97805-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97805-1
128 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 5/30/2002
List Price: $81.95 (UK Sterling Price: £47.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback Ebook
Subjects:
Series Title: The Washington Papers
Series Number: 181
Reviews:
  • [O]sius's book is recommended reading for the general reader and undergradaute students as an orderly account of the U.S.-Japan security relationship. It is not commonplace to find such a lucid and informative book condensed into a mere one hundred pages.
    —H-Net Reviews     April 2003
Description: For more than three decades, the multifaceted alliance between the United States and Japan has contributed significantly to the security of Japan and the maintenance of peace and security in the Far East. With the end of the Cold War, new sources of potential threats have arisen at a time when Japan's national self-confidence has been shaken by nearly a decade of economic stagnation, a highly fluid political situation, and an inadequate institutional structure for crisis management and strategy formulation. Osius examines how Japan is trying to redefine its identity from a nation whose constitution renounces war as a sovereign right to a "normal" country involved in United Nations peacekeeping operations and regional military relationships. In his initial chapters, Osius focuses on the purpose of the security alliance and argues that U.S.-Japanese interests coincide enough not only to sustain the alliance, but also to warrant strengthening and promoting it. He then examines the challenges and opportunities for an enhanced alliance over the next decade. Together, he maintains, the United States and Japan can address broadly defined security concerns, such as energy supply, weapons of mass destruction proliferation, transborder crime, piracy, and illegal narcotics, as well as environmental issues, infectious disease, economic development, and humanitarian and disaster relief. However, if it is to thrive, the U.S.-Japan alliance must remain dynamic rather than static and must be nurtured, sustained, and enhanced by both parties. An important analysis for policy makers, scholars, and students of U.S.-Japanese political and military relations and Asian Studies in general.
Table of Contents:
  • Executive Summary
  • The Defense of Japan
  • The Korean Peninsula
  • Taiwan
  • China
  • The East Asian Region
  • The Problem of Okinawa: A Shared Challenge
  • Japanese and U.S. Challenges and Opportunities
  • Opportunities for a Strengthened Alliance
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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