Maritime Strategy and National Security in Japan and Britain

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-906876-27-2
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

Reihe: Brill

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. Furthermore, it expands the boundaries of the literature beyond the alliance period by exploring the strategic rationale underpinning the countries’ military policies since the end of the nineteenth century, focusing on the study of the differences and similarities emerging from the comparative nature of the two countries’ maritime economies and military systems. Overall, it presents a historical narrative that draws upon events of the pre-1945 period to identify those factors of power, status and economic opportunity that made British and Japanese interests align in the first decades of the twentieth century and subsequently, diverge in the second half of the 1930s. The book creates an element of continuity with the post-1945 era as it points out how in the Cold War, the persistence of key elements related to similar maritime economic interests led both the UK and Japan to follow a parallel path, choosing policies of strategic alignment with the United States. Contributors include Alessio Patalano, John Ferris, Haruo Tohmatsu, Douglas Ford, Lieutenant General Noboru Yamaguchi, Eric Grove, Chiyuki Aoi, Commodore Steven Jermy, Vice Admiral Yoji Koda and Guibourg Delamotte.

Zielgruppe

Academics and students in the fields of Anglo-Japanese relations, Japanese security studies, Cold War history, British military history and strategic and maritime studies as well as practitioners interested in international security

Autoren/Hrsg.

Patalano, Alessio

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Seapower and National Security: An Anglo-Japanese Way in Warfare? Part I: Strategic Partnership and Military Rivalry across the Oceans; 2. The Fulcrum of Power: Britain, Japan and the Asia-Pacific Region, 1880-1945; 3. Sea Power and Anglo-Japanese Military Relations, 1863-1923; 4. Britain’s Strategic View of Japanese Naval Power, 1923-1942; Part II: Strategic Priorities from the Cold War to Iraq; 5. Balancing Threat Perceptions and Strategic Priorities: Japan’s Post-war Defence Policy; 6. British Defence Policy and the Transformation of the Royal Navy in the Cold War and Beyond; 7. Punching Below Her Weight: Japan’s Post-Cold War Expeditionary Missions; Part III: Maritime Strategy in an Interdependent World; 8. Back to an Offshore Future: The Role of the Past in Britain’s Contemporary Defence Policy; 9. From Alliance to Coalition, then Where? Japan and the US Navy Cooperative Strategy for the Twenty-first Century; 10. The Political and Normative Constraints to Japan’s National Security; Conclusions; 11. The Expeditionary Nature of Future Anglo-Japanese Military Power

Über Autor(innen)

Patalano, Alessio
Alessio Patalano, Ph.D. (2009) in War Studies, King's College London (KCL), is Lecturer in War Studies at the Department of War Studies, KCL, where he specialises in Japanese military history, defence policy and East Asian security issues.