The Abe Doctrine

1. Front Matter

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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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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.

• Japanese Foreign Policy
• East Asian International Relations
• Peace Studies
• Pivot to Asia
• Rising China

“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)

• Tokyo, Japan

  Daisuke Akimoto

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.

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