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  • The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force

    Search for Legitimacy

    Edited by Robert D. Eldridge, Paul Midford ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Based on extensive Japanese-language materials, this book is the first to examine the development of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force. It addresses: how the GSDF was able to emerge as the post-war successor of the Imperial Japanese Army despite Japan’s anti-militarist constitution; how the GSDF, despite the public skepticism and even hostility that greeted its creation, built domestic and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Navigating East Asian Maritime Conflicts: Technological Change, Environmental Challenges, Global and Regional Responses

    Edited by Paul Midford, Jennifer L. Bailey, Katja Levy, Espen Moe ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    As technological development and diffusion have greatly increased the resources states can recover from maritime space, the stakes of these conflicts have grown. Nowhere is this clearer than in East Asia. This book examines how technological change and diffusion impact East Asian maritime conflicts, and approaches for conflict management and resolution. ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Health and Education Interdependence

    Thriving from Birth to Adulthood

    Edited by Richard Midford, Georgie Nutton, Brendon Hyndman, Sven Silburn ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the interdependence of health and education, and how optimising this important relationship provides the foundation for achieving improved life outcomes from birth into adulthood. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, it draws on bio-medical, epidemiological, educational, psychological and economic evidence to demonstrate the benefits of the reflexive, positive associations ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Japan's new security partnerships

    Beyond the security alliance

    Edited by Wilhelm Vosse, Paul Midford ...
    Series series Manchester University Press
    After decades of solely relying on the United States for its national security needs, over the last decade, Japan has begun to actively develop and deepen its security ties with a growing number of countries and actors in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, a development that has further intensified under the Shinzo Abe administration. This is the first book that provides a comprehensive analysis ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • New Directions in Japan’s Security

    Non-U.S. Centric Evolution

    Edited by Paul Midford, Wilhelm Vosse ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    While the US-Japan alliance has strengthened since the end of the Cold War, Japan has, almost unnoticed, been building security ties with other partners, in the process reducing the centrality of the US in Japan’s security. This book explains why this is happening.Japan pursued security isolationism during the Cold War, but the US was the exception. Japan hosted US bases and held joint military ... Read more

    Was $62.99 USD Now $55.99 USD

  • The EU–Japan Partnership in the Shadow of China

    The Crisis of Liberalism

    Edited by Axel Berkofsky, Christopher W. Hughes, Paul Midford, Marie Söderberg ...
    Series series European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian Economics and Business Series
    Both the European Union and Japan have been major beneficiaries and supporters of the liberal international order, first led by the United States since the end of World War II. During this period, they have emerged as global powers, however, the very order that nurtured their rise is now facing twin threats. First, through authoritarian China’s promotion of alternative models of global governance, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • New Challenges and Solutions for Renewable Energy

    Japan, East Asia and Northern Europe

    Edited by Paul Midford, Espen Moe ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book identifies second stage challenges and opportunities for expanding renewable energy into a mainstay of electricity generation that can replace fossil fuels and nuclear power, comparing Japan with several countries in East Asia and Northern Europe. Environmentally sustainable renewable energy technologies have now overtaken fossil fuel and nuclear technologies in terms of total global ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security

    Common Challenges and National Responses in Japan, China and Northern Europe

    Edited by E. Moe, P. Midford ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Bringing together renewable energy and energy security, this book covers both the politics and political economy of renewables and energy security and analyzes renewable technologies in diverse and highly topical countries: Japan, China and Northern Europe. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Senkaku Islands Confrontation and the Transformation of Japan’s Defense

    by Paul Midford ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book argues that the transformation of Japan’s defense since 2012 has been triggered by the emergence of the first threat to Japan’s territorial integrity since 1945, namely China’s continual challenging of Japan’s control of the Senkaku Islands. It shows how this threat led to Japan building its own version of an A2/AD strategy and contributed to the demise of the prohibition on not ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security

    From Pacifism to Realism?

    by Paul Midford ...
    Series series Studies in Asian Security
    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 ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security

    From Pacifism to Realism?

    by Paul Midford ...
    Series series Studies in Asian Security
    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 ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Overcoming Isolationism

    Japan’s Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism

    by Paul Midford ...
    Series series Studies in Asian Security
    This book asks why, in the wake of the Cold War, Japan suddenly reversed years of steadfast opposition to security cooperation with its neighbors. Long isolated and opposed to multilateral agreements, Japan proposed East Asia's first multilateral security forum in the early 1990s, emerging as a regional leader. Overcoming Isolationism explores what led to this surprising about-face and offers a ... Read more

    $65.59 USD