Reinventing the Alliance: US - Japan Security Partnership in an Era of Change

Product Description This is an edited volume that examines the US-Japan security alliance, the key to US-Japanese relations since the end of US occupation in the 50s. The alliance has long been a source of both co-operation and stress between the two nations, but with rapid changes in Asia, it has grown more problematic. This book brings American and Japanese specialists together to examine the alliance within the wider regional environment and to determine whether and how the bilateral alliance can evolve and remain at the core of the region's security order. Review The fifty-year old U.S.-Japan alliance demands serious reexamination. The end of the Cold War, the rapid expansion of China and the outbreak of Islamist terror networks have undercut key security premises on which the alliance was forged. Yet these changes make a healthy U.Ss-Japan relationship even more critical to regional stability than before. Ikenberry and Inoguchi lead an impressive array of experts in an ambitious effort to diagnose the alliance in its bilateral and multilateral contexts. The book offers a rich and textured analysis of the present day alliance and an invigorating new mapping of potential fruitful directions. - T.J. Pempel, Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, BerkeleyThis book reassesses the fifty-year old U.S.-Japan alliance and explores the ways in which this security system could be effective for the next fifty years. In the search for a viable redefinition of the U.S.-Japan alliance in the future, the authors study different models of regional security, and propose that the "U.S.-German relationship model" is a better model for the U.S.-Japan security partnership than the "U.S.-British partnership model," recommended in the Armitage Report (fall 2000). Altogether, this work provides valuable insight for redefining the role of the U.S.-Japan alliance in Asia in the twenty-first century. - Mayumi Itoh, University of Nevada, Las VegasThe contributors in this volume are well-chosen. Ikenberry and Inoguchi skillfully introduce the reader to the themes of the book. Well-organized scholarship flows deftly to guide both the non-specialist as well as the specialist reader through the wealth of expert information presented on this complex topic. - Robert Angel, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Southern California, and author of Explaining Economic Policy Failure: Japan and the 1969-1971 International Monetary Crisis About the Author THOMAS BERGER Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Boston University, USA VICTOR CHA Associate Professor of Government and D.S. Song - Korea Chair in Korean Studies in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, USA AKIKO FUKUSHIMA Director of Policy Studies and Senior Fellow of the National Institute of Research Advancement, Tokyo, Japan G. JOHN IKENBERRY Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Global Justice at Georgetown University, USA TAKASHI INOGUCHI Former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, Japan MATAKE KAMIYA Associate Professor of International Relations at the National Defense Academy of Japan MICHAEL MASTANDUNO Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA MICHAEL O'HANLON Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USA STEPHEN JOHN STEDMAN Senior Fellow and Acting Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, USA UMEMOTO TETSUYA Professor of International Relations at Shizuoka Kenritsu University, Japan JITSUO TSUCHIYAMA Professor of International Relations at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan