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The Abe Doctrine

Japan's Proactive Pacifism and Security Strategy

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Authors:
  1. Daisuke Akimoto

    1. Tokyo, Japan

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  • Provides academic and policy information on the 'Abe Doctrine'

  • Explores the international trajectory of Japan's foreign and security policies in the next three to five years

  • Demonstrates how the policy components of the 'Abe Doctrine' will be Japan's new grand strategy

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Daisuke Akimoto
    Pages 1-8

  3. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Proactive Contribution to Peace

    • Daisuke Akimoto
    Pages 9-33

  4. The 15 Cases: Simulations for the Peace and Security Legislation

    • Daisuke Akimoto
    Pages 35-64

  5. The Abe Government and the Right to Collective Self-Defense

    • Daisuke Akimoto
    Pages 65-99

  6. The Domestic Implication: Japan’s Ballistic Missile Defense Policy

    • Daisuke Akimoto
    Pages 101-123

  7. The Bilateral Implication: Development of the Japan–USA Alliance

    • Daisuke Akimoto
    Pages 125-146

  8. The Global Implication: Japan’s Peace Operations in South Sudan

    • Daisuke Akimoto
    Pages 147-172

  9. The Abe Doctrine: Emergence of Japan’s New Grand Strategy

    • Daisuke Akimoto
    Pages 173-195

  10. Conclusion

    • Daisuke Akimoto
    Pages 197-202

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 203-246
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About this book

This book focuses on Prime Minister Abe’s policy toward international peace and security proposed in 2013 under the basic principle of ‘proactive contribution to peace’. To this end, this book investigates Prime Minister Abe’s policy-making process of the Peace and Security Legislation, which transformed Japan’s security policy and enabled Japan to exercise the right of ‘collective self-defense’, which used to be ‘unconstitutional’. This book evaluates the implications of the Peace and Security Legislation on three fronts, domestic, bilateral, and international, by analyzing Japan’s Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) program, the Japan-US alliance system, and Japan’s policy on international peacekeeping operations in South Sudan. This book is one of the first contributions to the research on Japan’s foreign and security policy under the Shinzo Abe administration and will be of interest to scholars, policymakers, and students of Japan, Japanese politics and international relations of the Asia-Pacific region.

Reviews

“Akimoto’s The Abe Doctrine provides a very solid introduction to the complex terrain of Japan’s military security policies that increasingly have both breadth and depth beyond what most readers will be familiar with— without deluging the reader with details or using difficult jargon.” (Andrew Oros, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 94 (2), June, 2021)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Tokyo, Japan

    Daisuke Akimoto

About the author

Daisuke Akimoto is former Assistant Professor at the Soka University Peace Research Institute and the author of Japan as a Global Pacifist State (2013). He holds PhD in Asian Studies and International Relations from the University of Western Sydney, MA in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Sydney, and BA in Humanities from Soka University, Japan. He has worked as a secretary in the House of Representatives, Japan.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Abe Doctrine

  • Book Subtitle: Japan's Proactive Pacifism and Security Strategy

  • Authors: Daisuke Akimoto

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7659-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7658-9Published: 16 February 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5664-3Published: 09 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7659-6Published: 06 February 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 246

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Asian Politics, Foreign Policy, Peace Studies

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