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US hegemony and the origins of Japanese nuclear power : the politics of consent
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Kelly, Dominic (2014) US hegemony and the origins of Japanese nuclear power : the politics of consent. New Political Economy, 19 (6). pp. 819-846. doi:10.1080/13563467.2013.849673 ISSN 1356-3467.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2013.849673
Abstract
This paper deploys the Gramscian concepts of hegemony and consent in order to explore the process whereby nuclear power was brought to Japan. The core argument is that nuclear power was brought to Japan as a consequence of US hegemony. Rather than a simple manifestation of one state exerting material ‘power over' another, bringing nuclear power to Japan involved a series of compromises worked out within and between state and civil society in both Japan and the USA. Ideologies of nationalism, imperialism and modernity underpinned the process, coalescing in post-war debates about the future trajectory of Japanese society, Japan's Cold War alliance with the USA and the role of nuclear power in both. Consent to nuclear power was secured through the generation of a psychological state in the public mind combining the fear of nuclear attack and the hope of unlimited consumption in a nuclear-fuelled post-modern world.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Hegemony -- United States, Japan -- Foreign relations -- United States, United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan, Nuclear weapons -- Japan, Japan -- Military policy, Nuclear nonproliferation, Nuclear arms control -- Japan, National security -- Japan | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | New Political Economy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1356-3467 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2 November 2014 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 19 | ||||||||
Number: | 6 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 819-846 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/13563467.2013.849673 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 December 2015 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 December 2015 |
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