Strategic Cultures and Security Policies in the Asia-Pacific

ISBN-13: 9780367738686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 170 str.

Jeffrey S. Lantis

Opis

This book features an original collection of essays on strategic cultures in the Asia-Pacific. Globalization, the ascendance of China, North Korean nuclear ambitions, and tensions over territory and resources have impacted many countries in Asia-Pacific and have drawn much needed attention from scholars and policy-makers working to manage challe

Spis treści

1. INTRODUCTION: Strategic Cultures and Security Policies in the Asia-Pacific  Jeffrey S. Lantis  AUSTRALIA 2. Australia’s Strategic Culture: Constraints and Opportunities in Security Policymaking  Alex Burns and Ben Eltham  CHINA 3. China’s Real Strategic Culture: A Great Wall of the Imagination  Andrew Scobell  JAPAN 4. Japan’s Strategic Culture: Security Identity in a Fourth Modern Incarnation?  Andrew L. Oros  PHILIPPINES 5. Philippine Strategic Culture: Continuity in the Face of Changing Regional Dynamics  Renato Cruz De Castro  SOUTH KOREA 6. Strategic Culture of the Republic of Korea  Jiyul Kim  UNITED STATES 7. United States Strategic Culture and Asia-Pacific Security  Brice F. Harris  RETROSPECTIVE 8. What Can Strategic Culture Contribute to Our Understanding of Security Policies in the Asia-Pacific Region?  David G. Haglund

O autorze

Jeffrey S. Lantis is Chair of the Department of Political Science and a Professor of Political Science/International Relatiosn at The College of Wooster. A former Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Australian National University, he is author of numerous books, journal articles, and book chapters on strategic culture, transatlantic relations, nuclear non-proliferation, and foreign policy in comparative perspective. Lantis holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University.