The Abe Doctrine: Japan’s Proactive Pacifism and Security Strategy

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction (Daisuke Akimoto)....Pages 1-8 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Proactive Contribution to Peace (Daisuke Akimoto)....Pages 9-33 The 15 Cases: Simulations for the Peace and Security Legislation (Daisuke Akimoto)....Pages 35-64 The Abe Government and the Right to Collective Self-Defense (Daisuke Akimoto)....Pages 65-99 The Domestic Implication: Japan’s Ballistic Missile Defense Policy (Daisuke Akimoto)....Pages 101-123 The Bilateral Implication: Development of the Japan–USA Alliance (Daisuke Akimoto)....Pages 125-146 The Global Implication: Japan’s Peace Operations in South Sudan (Daisuke Akimoto)....Pages 147-172 The Abe Doctrine: Emergence of Japan’s New Grand Strategy (Daisuke Akimoto)....Pages 173-195 Conclusion (Daisuke Akimoto)....Pages 197-202 Back Matter ....Pages 203-246