Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security

Paul Midford is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology and Director of the Japan Program at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology in Trondheim. His books include Japanese Public Opinion and the War on Terrorism: Implications for Japan's Security Strategy.

出版者:Stanford University Press

作者:Paul Midford

页数:272

出版时间:2011-1-24

价格:USD 24.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780804772174

图书标签:东亚安全日本安全研究日本政治日本外交国际关系politicsInternational-Relations

IIn this book, Paul Midford engages claims that since 9/11 Japanese public opinion has turned sharply away from pacifism and toward supporting normalization of Japan's military power, in which Japanese troops would fight alongside their American counterparts in various conflicts worldwide.

Midford argues that Japanese public opinion has never embraced pacifism. It has, instead, contained significant elements of realism, in that it has acknowledged the utility of military power for defending national territory and independence, but has seen offensive military power as ineffective for promoting other goals—such as suppressing terrorist networks and WMD proliferation, or promoting democracy overseas.

Over several decades, these realist attitudes have become more evident as the Japanese state has gradually convinced its public that Tokyo and its military can be trusted with territorial defense, and even with noncombat humanitarian and reconstruction missions overseas. On this basis, says Midford, we should re-conceptualize Japanese public opinion as attitudinal defensive realism.

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中国导弹能打到的国家多了，北朝鲜真出事先遭殃的也是韩国。民意都是引导的，军事外交这么专业的领域政府和公民之间完全是信息不对称。。。

中国导弹能打到的国家多了，北朝鲜真出事先遭殃的也是韩国。民意都是引导的，军事外交这么专业的领域政府和公民之间完全是信息不对称。。。

中国导弹能打到的国家多了，北朝鲜真出事先遭殃的也是韩国。民意都是引导的，军事外交这么专业的领域政府和公民之间完全是信息不对称。。。

中国导弹能打到的国家多了，北朝鲜真出事先遭殃的也是韩国。民意都是引导的，军事外交这么专业的领域政府和公民之间完全是信息不对称。。。