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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great perspective.,
By MissionPk (Cupertino, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) (Paperback)
For a person in the US, or even Japan, it can be easy to accept the US-Japan alliance as forced on Japan by the US and maintained by the power of US hegemony. The best part of this book for me was a clear reading of Japanese security strategy, starting in the early 50s, as affirmatively choosing alignment. The book follows that choice and the debates and factions around it from the early post-war era, through the Cold War, and into the post-1989 and post-911 eras. I enjoyed seeing a history where Japanese are given agency for their own history and are shown with real choices and understanding both of their potential role as a full modern power and the issues they'll need to deal with to get there.
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Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Richard J. Samuels (Paperback - Aug. 2008)
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