Overcoming Isolationism: Japan’s Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism

Overcoming Isolationism: Japan’s Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism

Author
Paul Midford
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Language
English
Year
2020
Page
272
ISBN
9781503613096
File Type
pdf
File Size
2.2 MiB

This book asks why, in the wake of the Cold War, Japan suddenly reversed years of steadfast opposition to security cooperation with its neighbors. Long isolated and opposed to multilateral agreements, Japan proposed East Asia's first multilateral security forum in the early 1990s, emerging as a regional leader. Overcoming Isolationism explores what led to this surprising about-face and offers a corrective to the misperception that Japan's security strategy is reactive to US pressure and unresponsive to its neighbors. Paul Midford draws on newly released official documents and extensive interviews to reveal a quarter century of Japanese leadership in promoting regional security cooperation. He demonstrates that Japan has a much more nuanced relationship with its neighbors and has played a more significant leadership role in shaping East Asian security than has previously been recognized.

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