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

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...

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