Japans Security Relations with China since 1989
The JapaneseChinese security relationship is one of the most important variables in the formation of a new strategic environment in the Asia-Pacific region which has not only regional but also global implications. The book investigates how and why since the 1990s China has turned in the Japanese perception from a benign neighbour to an ominous challenge, with implications not only for Japans security, but also its economy, role in Asia and identity as the first developed Asian nation. Japans reaction to this challenge has been a policy of engagement, which consists of political and economic enmeshment of China, hedged by political and military power balancing.
The unique approach of this book is the use of an extended security concept to analyse this policy, which allows a better and more systematic understanding of its many inherent contradictions and conflicting dynamics, including the centrifugal forces arising from the JapanChinaUS triangular relationship. Many contradictions of Japans engagement policy arise from the overlap of military and political power-balancing tools which are part of containment as well as of engagement, a reality which is downplayed by Japan but not ignored by China. The complex nature of engagement explains the recent reinforcement of Japans security cooperation with the US and Tokyos efforts to increase the security dialogues with countries neighbouring China, such as Vietnam, Myanmar and the five Central Asian countries.
The book raises the crucial question of whether Japans political leadership, which is still preoccupied with finding a new political constellation and with overcoming a deep economic crisis, is able to handle such a complex policy in the face of an increasingly assertive China and a US alliance partner with strong swings between engaging and containing Chinas power.
Reinhard Drifte has held the Chair of Japanese Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne since 1989. In recent years he was Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo and Visiting Professor at the University of Beijing. His most recent books are Japans Quest for a Permanent Security Council Seat and Japans Foreign Policy for the 21st Century. For further information see his home page: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/r.f.w.drifte/
The Nissan Institute/RoutledgeCurzon Japanese Studies Series
Editorial Board
J.A.A. Stockwin, Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, and Director, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies; Teigo Yoshida, formerly Professor of the University of Tokyo; Frank Langdon, Professor, Institute of International Relations, University of British Columbia; Alan Rix, Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts, The University of Queensland; Junji Banno, formerly Professor of the University of Tokyo, now Professor, Chiba University; Leonard Schoppa, Associate Professor, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, and Director of the East Asia Center, University of Virginia
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