Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security From Pacifism to Realism Studies in Asian Security 1st editon by Paul Midford 0804777713 9780804777711

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ISBN 10: 0804777713
ISBN 13: 9780804777711
Author: Paul Midford

In this book, Paul Midford engages claims that since 9/11 Japanese public opinion has turned sharply away from pacifism and toward supporting normalization of Japan’s military power, in which Japanese troops would fight alongside their American counterparts in various conflicts worldwide. Midford argues that Japanese public opinion has never embraced pacifism. It has, instead, contained significant elements of realism, in that it has acknowledged the utility of military power for defending national territory and independence, but has seen offensive military power as ineffective for promoting other goals—such as suppressing terrorist networks and WMD proliferation, or promoting democracy overseas. Over several decades, these realist attitudes have become more evident as the Japanese state has gradually convinced its public that Tokyo and its military can be trusted with territorial defense, and even with noncombat humanitarian and reconstruction missions overseas. On this basis, says Midford, we should re-conceptualize Japanese public opinion as attitudinal defensive realism.

Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security From Pacifism to Realism Studies in Asian Security 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction

2. Public Attitudes, Opinion, and the Conditions for Policy Influence

3. Views on the Utility of Military Force and America’s Use of Force

4. Reassessing Public Opinion during the Cold War

5. The First Gulf War

6. International Peacekeeping and the U.S. Alliance in the 1990s

7. Japanese Public Opinion and Responses to 9–11 and the Afghan Invasion

8. The Iraq War and the SDF

9. Reversing Course: An Iraq Syndrome in Japan

10. Conclusions

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