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Security Politics in Japan

Security Politics in Japan

Legislation for a New Security Environment

Hosoya Yuichi
Translated by Tara Cannon

Japan Library series
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture

Political Science

¥2,900 + tax

ISBN 9784866580531
210 mm x 148 mm / 208 pp. / March 2019

How can peace be realized in the modern world? And how can Japan ensure its own security? Despite the intense debates over Japan’s recent security-related legislation, such vital issues as these were never explored. To give proper consideration to these thorny questions, it is indispensable to have both a knowledge of history indicating the circumstances in which wars occur and a real recognition of the security environment of the twenty-first century. This work explores hotly debated security-related matters from a standard viewpoint on international politics and diplomatic history. It also advocates in a bold yet level-headed manner the form Japan’s security should take and the path Japan should follow to make that a reality.

HOSOYA Yuichi

Hosoya Yuichi is professor of international politics at Keio University, Tokyo. He is also Senior Researcher at Nakasone Yasuhiro Peace Institute (NPI), Senior Fellow at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research (TKFD), and also Adjunct Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). Professor Hosoya was a member of the Advisory Board at Japan’s National Security Council (NSC) (2014–2016), Prime Minister’s Advisory Panel on Reconstruction of the Legal Basis for Security (2013–14), and Prime Minister’s Advisory Panel on National Security and Defense Capabilities (2013). He studied international politics at Rikkyo (BA), Birmingham (MIS), and Keio (Ph.D.). He was a visiting professor and Japan Chair (2009–2010) at Sciences-Po in Paris (Institut d’Études Politiques) and a visiting fellow (Fulbright Fellow, 2008–2009) at Princeton University. His research interests include postwar international history, British diplomatic history, Japanese foreign and security policy, and contemporary East Asian international politics. He contributed a book chapter to Yul Sohn and T.J. Pempel (eds.), Japan and Asia’s Contested Order: The Interplay of Security, Economics, and Identity (Palgrave, 2018); Gilbert Rozman (ed.), Asia’s Alliance Triangle: US-Japan-South Korea Relations at a Tumultuous Time (Palgrave, 2015); Gilbert Rozman (ed.), East Asian National Identities: Common Roots and Chinese Exceptionalism (Stanford University Press, 2012), among others.

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Japan Library series
Political Science

Publisher:
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture

Hardcover
¥2,900 + tax
ISBN 9784866580531
210 mm x 148 mm / 208 pp. / March 2019

eBook
ISBN 9784866580982 (ePub)
ISBN 9784866580821 (PDF)

Preface to the English Edition / Introduction // Part I: Japan’s New Security Legislation / 1. Why Japan Needed New Security Legislation / 2. The History of Postwar Security Politics in Japan // Part II: Japan’s New Security Environment / 3. Historical Lessons Unlearned / 4. Japan in a New Security Environment // Conclusion / Further Readings

世界の平和はいかにして実現可能か。日本の安全はどうすれば確保できるのか。安保関連法を巡る論戦のなかですら掘り下げられなかった難問について、国際政治・外交史の標準的見地から、あるべき安全保障の姿と、そのために日本がとるべき道筋を大胆かつ冷静に説く。

細谷雄一
1971年千葉県生まれ。慶應義塾大学法学部教授。立教大学法学部卒業。英国バーミンガム大学大学院国際関係学修士号取得。慶應義塾大学大学院法学研究科政治学専攻博士課程修了。博士(法学)。北海道大学専任講師などをへて現職。『戦後国際秩序とイギリス外交』(創文社)でサントリー学芸賞、『外交による平和』(有斐閣)で政治研究櫻田會奨励賞、『倫理的な戦争』(慶應義塾大学出版会)で読売・吉野作造賞を受賞。

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Original Japanese Edition

安保論争

細谷雄一 著

筑摩書房 刊

2016/07/05