Khandekar GauriGaens Bart - Japans Search for Strategic Security Partnerships

As tensions between China and Japan increase, including over the disputed islands in the East China Sea, Japan has adopted under Prime Minister Abe a new security posture. This involves, internally, adapting Japans constitutional position on defence and, externally, building stronger international relationships in the Asia-Pacific region and more widely. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of these developments. It shows how trust and cooperation with the United States, the only partner with which Japan has a formal alliance, is being rebuilt, discusses how other relationships, both on security and on wider issues, are being formed, in the region and with European countries and the EU, with the relationships with India and Australia being of particular importance, and concludes by assessing the likely impact on the region of Japans changing posture and new relationships.

Gauri Khandekar is Deputy Director and Director Europe at Global Relations Forum, and Researcher at the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel based in Brussels, Belgium.

Bart Gaens is a Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland.

Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

Series Editors:

Leszek Buszynski, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, the Australian National University, and William Tow, Australian National University.

Security issues have become more prominent in the Asia Pacific region because of the presence of global players, rising great powers, and confident middle powers, which intersect in complicated ways. This series puts forward important new work on key security issues in the region. It embraces the roles of the major actors, their defense policies and postures and their security interaction over the key issues of the region. It includes coverage of the United States, China, Japan, Russia, the Koreas, as well as the middle powers of ASEAN and South Asia. It also covers issues relating to environmental and economic security as well as transnational actors and regional groupings.

27 Defence Planning and Uncertainty

Preparing for the next Asia-Pacific war

Stephan Frhling

28 The South China Sea Maritime Dispute

Political, legal, and regional perspectives

Edited by Leszek Buszynski and Christopher B. Roberts

29 South Asias Nuclear Security

Bhumitra Chakma

30 The New US Strategy towards Asia

Adapting to the American pivot

Edited by William T. Tow and Douglas Stuart

31 Vietnam and the South China Sea

Politics, Security and Legality

Do Thanh Hai

32 Japans Search for Strategic Security Partnerships

Edited by Gauri Khandekar and Bart Gaens

Japans Search for Strategic Security Partnerships

Edited by

Gauri Khandekar and Bart Gaens

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Bart Gaens, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland.

Michael Heazle, Griffith University, Australia.

Gauri Khandekar, Global Relations Forum and Institute for European Studies, Belgium.

Seong-Hyon Lee, The Sejong Institute, Republic of Korea.

Harinder Sekhon, Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi, India.

Yoneyuki Sugita, Osaka University, Japan.

Shogo Suzuki, University of Manchester, UK.

Takeshi Yuzawa, Hosei University, Japan.