Overview
- Challenges traditional accounts which view the Tripartite Allicance as a ‘hollow’ pact, highlighting the significance of Japan and Italy as Axis powers
- Compares the workings of ultra-nationalist and fascist foreign policy in these two countries, in contrast to Germany
- Presents the global context of the Axis alliance and the road to World War II
Part of the book series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World (SCCCW)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book employs a comparative approach to explore the decision-making processes behind the Japanese and Italian foreign policies concerned with East Asia, Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean. It explores these policies in relation to the Axis powers and Britain in the 1930s. Both Japan and Italy shared significant similarities in their decision-making processes, which help to illustrate the workings of ultra-nationalist and fascist foreign policy. The work examines the mechanism of decision-making in the foreign ministries, rather than the personalities of leaders, in order to understand why and how both countries finally chose unexpected partners. The Tripartite Alliance has often been perceived through the diplomatic motives and arbitrary manners of dictatorial leadership in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and ultra-nationalist Japan individually. This book compares the foreign policies of Italy and Japan and looks outwards to their diplomatic relations with Britain, akey imperial factor in their expansions into East Asia and Africa, contrasting these Axis powers with Germany, usually thought to typify fascist diplomacy.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Japan, Italy and the Road to the Tripartite Alliance
Authors: Ken Ishida
Series Title: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96223-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96222-1Published: 02 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07160-8Published: 03 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96223-8Published: 20 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-6807
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6815
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 218
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Japan, History of Italy, Political History, History of World War II and the Holocaust, World History, Global and Transnational History