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

Format Book
Publication Info[Folkestone, Kent, UK] : Brill, 2012.
Descriptionxxv, 255 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012010791
ISBN9781906876272 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1906876274 (ebk.)