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 |
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Great Britain |
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Japan |
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History |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Sea-power -- Japan -- History
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Sea-power -- Great Britain -- History
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Marine & Naval.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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International relations
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Sea-power
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Strategic aspects of individual places
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SUBJECT |
Pacific Ocean -- Strategic aspects
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Japan -- Relations -- Great Britain -- History
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Great Britain -- Relations -- Japan -- History
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Subject |
Great Britain
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Japan
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Pacific Ocean
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Patalano, Alessio, author.
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LC no. |
2012010791 |
ISBN |
9789004212626 |
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9004212620 |
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