Debating Security in Japan

Associate Fellow, IDSA, Dr Titli Basu’s research article, ‘Debating Security in Japan ’ was published in The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Vol. 30, No. 4, December 2018, 533－557.

With the objective of understanding Japan’s post–war security orientation, this article critically analyses the competing schools of thought in the security policy debate, traces the inter-school and intra-school fault lines dominating the security discourse throughout the Cold War and post-Cold War era, and further evaluates how the political elites have pursued their contending agendas, specially exploring the case of Shinzo Abe.

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