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Geography, this author contends, is the indisputably unique feature of any country. Geography and Japan's Strategic Choices begins by explaining Japan's unique location and topography in comparison to other countries. Peter Woolley then examines the ways in which the country's political leaders in various eras understood and acted on those geographical limitations and advantages. Proceeding chronologically through several distinct political eras, the book compares the Tokugawa era, the opening to the West, the Meiji Restoration, the long era of colonialization, industrialization and liberalization, the militarist reaction and World War II, the occupation, the Cold War, and finally the rudderless fin de siecle. Finally Woolley demonstrates how Japan's strategic situation in the twenty-first century is informed by past and present geo-strategic calculations as well as by current domestic and international changes. For students and scholars of U.S.-Japan relations and of Japanese history and politics, this book offers any informed reader a fresh perspective on a critical international relationship.
About the Author
Peter J. Woolley is a professor of comparative politics at Fairleigh Dickinson University and the executive director of the university's survey research center, PublicMind. He is the author of Japan's Navy: Politics and Paradox, 1971-2000 and co-editor of American Politics: Core Argument/Current Controversy. He lives in Madison, New Jersey.
Geography, this author contends, is the indisputably unique feature of any country. Geography and Japan's Strategic Choices begins by explaining Japan's unique location and topography in comparison to other countries. Peter Woolley then examines the ways in which the country's political leaders in various eras understood and acted on those geographical limitations and advantages. Proceeding chronologically through several distinct political eras, the book compares the Tokugawa era, the opening to the West, the Meiji Restoration, the long era of colonialization, industrialization and liberalization, the militarist reaction and World War II, the occupation, the Cold War, and finally the rudderless fin de siecle. Finally Woolley demonstrates how Japan's strategic situation in the twenty-first century is informed by past and present geo-strategic calculations as well as by current domestic and international changes. For students and scholars of U.S.-Japan relations and of Japanese history and politics, this book offers any informed reader a fresh perspective on a critical international relationship.
About the Author
Peter J. Woolley is a professor of comparative politics at Fairleigh Dickinson University and the executive director of the university's survey research center, PublicMind. He is the author of Japan's Navy: Politics and Paradox, 1971-2000 and co-editor of American Politics: Core Argument/Current Controversy. He lives in Madison, New Jersey.
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sea lane defense, peace clause, maritime defense, maritime forces, defense agency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, Cold War, Pacific Ocean, South Korea, Sea of Japan, United Nations, Port Arthur, Hong Kong, Meiji Constitution, North Korea, Meiji Restoration, Middle East, Great Britain, League of Nations, Russo-Japanese War, Treaty of Portsmouth, Yalu River, Yoshida Doctrine, Coral Sea, Dutch East Indies, East China Sea, Hakata Bay, Imperial Court, Indian Ocean New!
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United States, Soviet Union, Cold War, Pacific Ocean, South Korea, Sea of Japan, United Nations, Port Arthur, Hong Kong, Meiji Constitution, North Korea, Meiji Restoration, Middle East, Great Britain, League of Nations, Russo-Japanese War, Treaty of Portsmouth, Yalu River, Yoshida Doctrine, Coral Sea, Dutch East Indies, East China Sea, Hakata Bay, Imperial Court, Indian Ocean New!
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- Political Order in Changing Societies (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series) by Samuel P. Huntington in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Politics Among Nations by Hans J Morgenthau on page 7, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Second Treatise on Civil Government (Great Books in Philosophy) by John Locke on page 44, page 58, and Back Matter
- The Coming War With Japan by George Friedman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Hidden Army: The Untold Story of Japan's Military Forces by Tetsuo Maeda in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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