Synopses & Reviews
The U.S.-Japan security alliance, which initially focused on Japan's territorial defense and then started to merge with broader U.S. global strategy, now must deal with the rise of Japan's neighbors. This edited volume puts forth an empirically rigorous analysis of the ongoing transformation of the U.S.-Japan alliance. As the Obama administration shifts U.S. foreign policy into a multilateral mode, Japan's neighbors today are more likely to voice their issues concerning the U.S.-Japan alliance. Rigorous analysis of third-party perspectives of the U.S.-Japan alliance are key to helping us understand what external challenges lie ahead in terms of managing this crucial partnership.
Review
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The US-Japan Security Alliance provides an excellent and up-to-date effort to think through the US-Japan relationship, and how the latter country is to fit into an Asia increasingly dominated by a rising China.The chapters of this book examine the problem from multiple perspectives and suggest pathways to new security architectures in Northeast Asia." - Francis Fukuyama, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
"Although there are several books about the U.S.-Japan security alliance, few look at it equally from the perspective of both countries, or in the broader framework of the alliances relationships with other important nations in the region. This volume does both. Most welcome too is a particular consideration for how the "alliance dilemma" of Japans fear of entrapment versus abandonment has played out over time, and how complicated regional and domestic factors are affecting the "ambiguities" that used to help sustain the alliance. This is a very useful book both for its comprehensive overview of the alliance in broader perspective and for its several in-depth case studies of the alliance and other nations in the region." - Ellis S. Krauss, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego
'With political change in Japan, growing fiscal pressures on Washington and Tokyo, and new challenges from China and North Korea, we are primed for another redefinition of the U.S.-Japan alliance.Inoguchi, Ikenberry and Sato help to map the way with this collection of essays from some of the leading thinkers on Asian security and U.S.-Japan relations." - Michael J. Green, Georgetown University and the Center for Strategic and International Studies"The durability of the U.S.-Japan alliance lies in its capacity to constantly redefine itself to adapt to the ever-changing security equation in Asia and beyond. This volume is amongst the first and no doubt the most far-reaching attempts to capture the role and mission the alliance is pursuing anew." - Shotaro Yachi, Former Vice-Minister at Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Synopsis
In this book, American and Japanese experts examine to what extent diverging priorities in the U.S.-Japan alliance are real and whether they are not remedied with political and diplomatic leadership and other processes. American and Japanese authors are paired to analyze the same topic, where doing so is possible, for comparing their perspectives.
About the Author
Takashi Inoguchi is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Tokyo, Japan, and the President of the University of Niigata Prefecture. He has published widely on Japan and International Affairs including The Quality of Life in Asia: A Comparison of Quality of Life in Asia (Springer, 2012), The Troubled Triangle: Economic and Security Concerns of the United States, Japan and China,: (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming in 2013). He is founding editor of two journals, Japanese Journal of Political Science and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific.
G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also Co-Director of Princeton's Center for International Security Studies. Ikenberry is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. In 2013-14, Ikenberry will be the 72nd Eastman Visiting Professor at Balliol College, Oxford. Professor Ikenberry is the author of six books, including Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American System (Princeton, 2011). His book, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (Princeton, 2001), won the 2002 Schroeder-Jervis Award presented by the American Political Science Association for the best book in international history and politics.
Professor Yoichiro Sato holds a BA (Law) from Keio Universityan, MA (International Studies) from University of South Carolina, and a PhD (Political Science) from University of Hawaii. He currently teaches at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University and is the Director of International Strategic Studies. Previously, he has also taught at the US Department of Defense's Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Auckland University (New Zealand), Kansai Gaidai Hawaii College, and University of Hawaii. His major works include Japan in A Dynamic Asia (co-edited with Satu Limaye, Lexington Books, 2006), Norms, Interests, and Power in Japanese Foreign Policy (co-edited with Keiko Hirata, Palgrave, 2008), and The Rise of China and International Security (co-edited with Kevin Cooney, Routledge, 2008).
Table of Contents
1. Alliance Constrained: Japan, the United States and Global security; T.Inoguchi and J.Ikenberry
2. Bilateral Merits of Alliance: A Japanese Perspective; T.Shinoda
3. Bilateral Merits of Alliance: An American Perspective; S.Smith
4. Global Merits of Alliance: A Japanese Perspective; A.Fukushima
5. Global Merits of Alliance: An American Perspective; M.Mastanduno
6. Korea and the Japan-United States Alliance: A Japanese Perspective; Y.Sakata
7. Korea and the United States-Japan Alliance: An American Perspective; S.Snyder
8. China and the Japan-United States Alliance: A Japanese Perspective; C.Ueki
9. China and the United States – Japan Alliance: An American Perspective; A.Goldstein
10. Russia and the Japan-United States Alliance: A Japanese Perspective; A.Kawato
11. Russia and the United States-Japan Alliance: An American Perspective; J.Ferguson
12. The ASEAN and Australia and the Japan-United States Alliance: A Japanese Perspective; T.Terada
13. The ASEAN and Australia and the United States-Japan Alliance: An American Perspective; S.Simon
Conclusion; G.J.Ikenberry, T.Inoguchi and Y.Sato