Title Maritime strategy and national security in Japan and Britain : from the first alliance to post-9/11 / edited by Alession Patalano

Published Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 255 pages) : maps Contents Introduction -- Maritime strategy and national security in Japan and Britain / Alessio Patalano -- Strategic partnership and military rivalry across the oceans -- the fulcrum of power: Britain, Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, 1880-1945 / John Ferris -- Sea power and Anglo-Japanese military relations, 1863-1923 / Haruo Tohmatsu -- Britain's strategic view of Japanese naval power, 1923-1942 / Douglas Ford -- Strategic priorities from the Cold War to Iraq -- Balancing threat perceptions and strategic priorities: Japan's post-war defence policy / Noboru Yamaguchi -- British defence policy and the transformation of the Royal Navy in the Cold War and beyond / Eric Grove -- Punching below the weight: Japan's post-Cold War expeditionary missions / Chiyuki Aoi -- Maritime strategy in an interdependent world -- the political and normative constraints to Japan's national security / Guibourg Delamotte -- 'Back to an offshore future': the role of the past in Britain's contemporary defence policy / Steven Jermy -- From alliance to coalition, then where? Japan and the US Navy cooperative strategy for the twenty-first century / Yoji Koda -- Maritime strategy in Japan and the UK: the 'island nation' model in perspective / Alessio Patalano Summary This thought-provoking volume explores how, across more than a century, sea power empowered both the UK and Japan with a defensive shield, an instrument of deterrence, and an enabling tool in expeditionary missions to implement courses of actions to preserve national economic and security interests worldwide Analysis Sea-Power Great Britain Japan History Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Sea-power -- Japan -- History Sea-power -- Great Britain -- History TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Marine & Naval. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science. International relations Sea-power Strategic aspects of individual places SUBJECT Pacific Ocean -- Strategic aspects Japan -- Relations -- Great Britain -- History Great Britain -- Relations -- Japan -- History Subject Great Britain Japan Pacific Ocean Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Patalano, Alessio, author. LC no. 2012010791 ISBN 9789004212626 9004212620

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