Japan, the active state?: Security policy after 9/11

Asian Survey

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 560-583

  Arase, David ^a  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Japanese foreign policy; Japanese security policy; Northeast Asian security; U.S. Japan relations

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; NATIONAL SECURITY; POLITICAL RELATIONS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35348999058     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: 1533838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.2007.47.4.560     Document Type: Article

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