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Reluctant Warriors

Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma

By: Alexandra Sakaki,Hanns W. Maull,Kerstin Lukner

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Reluctant Warriors

Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma

By: Alexandra Sakaki,Hanns W. Maull,Kerstin Lukner

Can Germany and Japan do more militarily to uphold the international order? Since the end of World War II, Germany and Japan have been the most reluctant of all major U.S. allies to take on military responsibilities. Given their histories, this reluctance certainly is understandable. But because of their size and economic importance, Germany and Japan are the most important U.S. allies in Europe and in East Asia, respectively, and their long-term reluctance to share the defense burden has become a perennial source of frustration for Washington. The potential security roles of Germany and Japan are becoming increasingly important given the uncertainty, indeed volatility, of today’s international environment. Under President Trump, friction among allies over burden-sharing is more intense than ever before. Meanwhile, the security environments in Europe and Asia have deteriorated because of the resurgence of a belligerent Russia under Vladimir Putin, the steady rise of an increasingly assertive China, and North Korea’s worrisome acquisition of nuclear weapons. Partly in response to these developments, Germany and Japan in recent years have boosted their security efforts, mainly by increasing defense spending and taking on a somewhat broader range of military missions. Even so, because of their cultures of anti-militarism resistance remains strong in both countries to rebuilding the military and assuming more responsibility for sustaining regional or even global peace. In Reluctant Warriors, a team of noted international experts critically examines how and why Germany and Japan have modified their military postures since 1990 so far, and assesses how far the countries still have to go—and why. The contributors also highlight the risks the United States takes if it makes too simplistic a demand for the two countries to “do more.”

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Japan and Germany as Regional Actors

Evaluating Change and Continuity After the Cold War

By: Alexandra Sakaki

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Japan and Germany as Regional Actors

Evaluating Change and Continuity After the Cold War

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This important book fills the gap in existing literature by employing an explicitly comparative framework for analyzing and evaluating Germany's and Japan's post-Cold War regional foreign policy trajectories. Through a qualitative content analysis of key foreign policy speeches, this book traces and compares German and Japanese national role conceptions by identifying policymakers' perceived duties and responsibilities of their country. Further, through two case studies on missile defence policies and textbook disputes this study investigates actual foreign policy behaviour in order to question the assertion that post Cold War Germany and Japan are following very different paths.

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0415697492

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Reluctant Warriors

Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma

By: Alexandra Sakaki,Hanns W. Maull,Kerstin Lukner

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Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma

By: Alexandra Sakaki,Hanns W. Maull,Kerstin Lukner

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Japan and Germany as Regional Actors

Evaluating Change and Continuity after the Cold War

By: Alexandra Sakaki

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Japan and Germany as Regional Actors

Evaluating Change and Continuity after the Cold War

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The end of the Cold War and the bipolar era constituted a significant change in Germany's and Japan's foreign policy settings, granting both countries greater leeway to pursue policies divergent from Washington's strategy. This important book fills a gap in the existing literature by employing an explicitly comparative framework for analyzing and evaluating Germany's and Japan's post-Cold War regional foreign policy trajectories. Recent non-comparative studies diverge in their assessments of the extent to which the two countries' foreign policies are characterized by continuity or change, as while the majority of analyses on Germany find overall continuity in policies and guiding principles, prominent works on Japan see the country undergoing drastic change. Through a qualitative content analysis of key foreign policy speeches, this book traces and compares German and Japanese national role conceptions by identifying policymakers' perceived duties and responsibilities of their country in international politics. Further, through two case studies on missile defence policies and textbook disputes this study investigates actual foreign policy behaviour in order to question the assertion that post Cold War Germany and Japan are following very different paths. Providing a much needed new analysis of German and Japanese foreign policies, this book will be of great use to students and scholars interested in Japanese politics, German politics, comparative politics and international relations more generally.

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Reluctant Warriors

Reluctant Warriors

Japan and Germany as Regional Actors

Japan and Germany as Regional Actors

Reluctant Warriors

Reluctant Warriors

Japan and Germany as Regional Actors

Japan and Germany as Regional Actors

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