New Directions in Japan's security : non-U.S. Centric evolution

Contents:

1 Introduction | 1

PAUL MIDFORD AND WILHELM VOSSE

2 Explaining: decentering and recentering in security strategy | 11

PAUL MIDFORD

PART I: Non-American directions in defense policy | 25

3 Centered on the fight within: the inward-looking nature of the Japanese debate on constitutional reinterpretation with a diluted US focus | 27

BRYCE WAKEFIELD

4 Lifting the ban on defense industrial production cooperation with non-US partners | 44

CHRISTOPHER W. HUGHES

PART II: Diversifying security partners | 65

5 Japan’s ‘special’ strategic partnership with Australia: ‘decentering’ underwrites ‘recentering’ | 67

THOMAS S. WILKINS

6 Japan’s policy toward India since 2000: for the sake of maintaining US leadership in East Asia | 86

NATSUYO ISHIBASHI

7 Japan’s security partnerships with the Philippines and Vietnam | 107

BJØRN ELIAS MIKALSEN GRØNNING

PART III: Japan’s focus on multilateral security cooperation | 129

8 From a decentering and recentering imperative: Japan’s approach to Asian security multilateralism | 131

TAKESHI YUZAWA

9 Is Japan’s engagement in counter-piracy missions a step towards decentering of its security policy? | 154

WILHELM VOSSE

10 Japan’s cooperation with the EU in the nexus of development and security | 175

MARIE SÖDERBERG

11 Evolution of Japan’s non-US centric security strategy and European influences on Japan’s peace-building policy | 189

YUKIKO TAKEZAWA

PART IV: Reflections on Japan’s non-American focused initiatives | 213

12 The continued centrality of the United States to Japan’s security doctrine in an era of expanding security partnerships | 215

ANDREW L. OROS

13 Non-US direction in Japan’s security strategy: a Chinese view | 228

SUISHENG ZHAO

14 Conclusion | 246

WILHELM VOSSE AND PAUL MIDFORD