Pacific Alliance: Reviving U.S.-Japan Relations - Hardcover

Kent E. Calder

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300146728 ISBN 13: 9780300146721

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Despite the enduring importance of the U.S.-Japan security alliance, the broader relationship between the two countries is today beset by sobering new difficulties. In this comprehensive comparative analysis of the transpacific alliance and its political, economic and social foundations, Kent Calder, a leading Japan specialist, asserts that bilateral relations between the two countries are dangerously eroding as both seek broader options in a globally oriented world. Calder documents the quiet erosion of America's multidimensional ties with Japan as China rises, generations change, and new forces arise in both American and Japanese politics. He then assesses consequences for a twenty-first-century military alliance with formidable coordination requirements, explores alternative foreign paradigms for dealing with the United States, adopted by Britain, Germany, and China, and offers prescriptions for restoring U.S.-Japan relations to vitality once again.

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Review:

A volume that will appeal to beginners and to specialists, to practitioners and to scholars of international politics and security relations. . . . Interesting and thought-provoking . . . make[s] important contributions. Andrew L./i> --Andrew L. Oros "Pacific Affairs ""

About the Author:

Kent E. Calder is director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. He has served as special advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He has also taught and initiated U.S.-Japan research programmes at Princeton and Harvard Universities.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0300146728
• ISBN 13: 9780300146721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288