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The democratic party of Japan's new (but failing) grand security strategy : from "reluctant realism" to "resentful realism"?
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Hughes, Christopher W. (2012) The democratic party of Japan's new (but failing) grand security strategy : from "reluctant realism" to "resentful realism"? Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol.38 (No.1). pp. 109-140. doi:10.1353/jjs.2012.0006 ISSN 0095-6848.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2012.0006
Abstract
This essay challenges the dominant negative critiques of the foreign policy of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). The DPJ possesses a coherent grand strategy vision, capable of securing Japan's national interests in an age of multipolarity and centered on a less dependent and more proactive role in the U.S.-Japan alliance, strengthened Sino-Japanese ties, and enhanced East Asian regionalism. However, the DPJ has failed to implement its policy due to domestic and international structural pressures. Consequently, the DPJ is defaulting back into a strategy in the style of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Japanese and U.S. policymakers should recognize the risks of a strategy characterized not by "reluctant realism" but by more destabilizing "resentful realism."
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare J Political Science > JZ International relations |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Japanese Studies | ||||
Publisher: | Society for Japanese Studies | ||||
ISSN: | 0095-6848 | ||||
Official Date: | January 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.38 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 109-140 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1353/jjs.2012.0006 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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