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Author Akimoto, Daisuke, 1980- author.

Title The Abe doctrine : Japan's proactive pacifism and security strategy / Daisuke Akimoto
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 246 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the proactive contribution to peace -- 3. The 15 cases : simulations for the peace and security legislation -- 4. The Abe government and the right to a collective self-defense -- 5. The domestic implication : Japan's ballistic missile defense policy -- 6. The bilateral implication : development of the Japan-USA alliance -- 7. The global implication : Japan's peace operations in South Sudan -- 8. The Abe doctrine : emergence of Japan's new grand strategy -- 9. Conclusion
Summary This book focuses on Prime Minister Abe's policy toward international peace and security proposed in 2013 under the basic principle of 'proactive contribution to peace'. To this end, this book investigates Prime Minister Abe's policy-making process of the Peace and Security Legislation, which transformed Japan's security policy and enabled Japan to exercise the right of 'collective self-defense', which used to be 'unconstitutional'. This book evaluates the implications of the Peace and Security Legislation on three fronts, domestic, bilateral, and international, by analyzing Japan's Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) program, the Japan-US alliance system, and Japan's policy on international peacekeeping operations in South Sudan. This book is one of the first contributions to the research on Japan's foreign and security policy under the Shinzo Abe administration and will be of interest to scholars, policymakers, and students of Japan, Japanese politics and international relations of the Asia-Pacific region.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Pacifism -- Japan
Peace-building -- Japan
National security -- Japan
Political leadership -- Japan -- History -- 21st century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Peace-building.
Pacifism.
Diplomatic relations.
National security.
Political leadership.
Politics and government.
SUBJECT Japan -- Foreign relations -- 21st century
Japan -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Japan -- Foreign relations -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069423
Subject Japan.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789811076596
9811076596