Japan's Foreign and Security Policy Under the 'Abe Doctrine': New Dynamism or New Dead End?
Christopher W. Hughes
Language: English
Pages: 125
ISBN: B010WI5EC8
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Prime Minister Abe Shinzō's foreign and security policy—highly charged with ideological and historical revisionism—contains the potential to shift Japan onto a new international trajectory. Its degree of articulation and energy makes for an 'Abe doctrine' capable of displacing the 'Yoshida Doctrine' that has been Japan's guiding grand strategy in the post-war period. Abe has already begun to introduce radical policies that look to transform national security policy into a more muscular military stance, bolster US-Japan alliance ties to function increasingly for regional and global security, and attempt to encircle China's influence in East Asia. The 'Abe Doctrine' is dynamic but also high-risk. Abe's revisionism contains fundamental contradictions that may ultimately limit the effectiveness, or even defeat, the doctrine, and along the way inflict collateral damage on relations with East Asia and Japan's own national interests.
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JSDF force posture limited to the static defence of Japanese territory and the build-up of heavy ground forces. The new DDF, in contrast, and mindful of the North Korean and Chinese threats, stressed a more proactive JSDF posture in and around Japanese territory, with increasing deployments of forces southwards and capable of power projection. The 2013 NDPG moved this concept further on by seeking a ‘Dynamic Joint Defence Force’ to enable improved joint cooperation amongst the Ground Self-Defence.
Precedent-making Cabinet Decisions. Abe stressed in May 2014 that Japan would not become involved in foreign wars, but the only effective constraint appears to be his word and the prevailing political sentiment. Abe in June was already beginning to hold out for the possibility of JSDF despatch to the Gulf to help safeguard Japanese energy supplies.66 In fact, Abe is known to be a strong proponent of Japan’s participation in an expanded form of collective self-defence along the lines of NATO. Many.
Security Summit in March DOI: 10.1057/9781137514257.0007 Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy 2014, and it was then with some relief that the State Department was able to comment upon Abe’s announcement the same month ahead of the summit of the maintenance of the Kōno Statement as a ‘positive step’ conducive to regional ties.20 Nevertheless, issues of history and other aspects of revisionism are likely to continue to impact adversely on US–Japan political confidence. Chief Cabinet.
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