Maritime strategy and national security in Japan and Britain : from the first alliance to post-9/11 / / edited by Alession Patalano.

• TeilnehmendeR: Patalano, Alession,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 255 pages) :; maps
• Notes: Includes index.

Sharing a similar geography at the opposite ends of the Eurasian Continent and dependent on maritime trade to supplement the lack of strategic resources, both the UK and Japan relied on the sea for their economic survival and independence as sovereign states. From the first alliance in 1902, through the World Wars, to the more recent operations in the Indian Ocean and Iraq, sea power has played a central role in the strategic calculus of both countries. This thought-provoking book, comprising contributions from a group of international scholars, explores the strategic meaning of being an island nation. It investigates how, across more than a century, sea power empowered - and continues to empower - both the UK and Japan with a defensive shield, an instrument of deterrence, and an enabling tool in expeditionary missions to implement courses of action to preserve national economic and security interests worldwide. Positioned within the comparative literature on Japan and the UK, the volume will have wide-ranging appeal including studies in Anglo-Japanese Relations, Naval Military History, and Studies in East Asian Defence and Sucurity, including Anglo-American and US-Japan strategic interests.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Maritime strategy and national security in Japan and Britain / Alessio Patalano -- Strategic partnership and military rivalry across the oceans -- the fulcrum of power: Britain, Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, 1880-1945 / John Ferris -- Sea power and Anglo-Japanese military relations, 1863-1923 / Haruo Tohmatsu -- Britain's strategic view of Japanese naval power, 1923-1942 / Douglas Ford -- Strategic priorities from the Cold War to Iraq -- Balancing threat perceptions and strategic priorities: Japan's post-war defence policy / Noboru Yamaguchi -- British defence policy and the transformation of the Royal Navy in the Cold War and beyond / Eric Grove -- Punching below the weight: Japan's post-Cold War expeditionary missions / Chiyuki Aoi -- Maritime strategy in an interdependent world -- the political and normative constraints to Japan's national security / Guibourg Delamotte -- 'Back to an offshore future': the role of the past in Britain's contemporary defence policy / Steven Jermy -- From alliance to coalition, then where? Japan and the US Navy cooperative strategy for the twenty-first century / Yoji Koda -- Maritime strategy in Japan and the UK: the 'island nation' model in perspective / Alessio Patalano.