Japanese Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era: Threat Perceptions and Strategic Options

This article examines Finland's Cold War neutrality, highlighting its political and ideational dimensions. In contrast to other scholars who have stressed the pragmatic realpolitik considerations behind Finnish policymaking, the article demonstrates that political and ideological considerations were at least as important in shaping Finnish Cold War neutrality. The ideological and political identity dimensions are connected to the strong national consensus that lay behind Finnish neutrality policy and its wide, sustained public support. Paying attention to these dimensions helps us also to understand continuities in Finnish foreign and security policy that have continued into the post–Cold War period. The continuities of Cold War–era neutrality formulations are illustrated by a discussion of Finnish foreign policymaking in the final phase of the Cold War and the early 1990s.

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Economic Nationalism in South Korea and Taiwan: Examining Identity Discourse and Threat Perceptions towards Japan after the Second World War (1960s–1970s)

Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs ◽

10.1177/2347797018783110 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 149-171

Author(s):

Christina Lai

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Cold War ◽

South Korea ◽

Comparative Politics ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Economic Nationalism ◽

Post Cold War ◽

Political Discourses ◽

Threat Perceptions ◽

Cold War Era

South Korea and Taiwan provide fruitful comparisons in political economy. During the Cold War era, they deepened their trade with Japan. However, the top political leaders in those places exhibited different levels of threat perceptions towards Japan. Why did the leaders formulate their discourse towards Japan so differently in the post-Cold War era? The role of nationalism is salient during their economic take-off periods. The motivations behind these developmental strategies and the discourse used to justify such national growth cannot be excluded from the studies of comparative politics and political economy. This article examines the political discourses of two dictators—Park Chung-hee in South Korea and Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan—and shows how they justified their policies towards Japan while establishing economic nationalism at the same time. It concludes with findings that are relevant to recent development in comparative studies, and it offers policy implications for East Asian security.

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China's security policy in the post‐Cold War era

Survival ◽

10.1080/00396339208442643 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 88-106 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

David Shambaugh

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Security Policy ◽

Post Cold War ◽

Cold War Era

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African Regionalism & Human Protection Norms: An Overview

Global Responsibility to Protect ◽

10.1163/1875984x-00803007 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (2-3) ◽

pp. 201-226

Author(s):

Charles T. Hunt

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Cold War ◽

Security Policy ◽

Regional Level ◽

Responsibility To Protect ◽

Post Cold War ◽

International Solidarity ◽

Peace And Security ◽

Cold War Era ◽

Policy Agendas

Growing international solidarity for protection principles has formed the backdrop for an evolving notion of human protection at the un in the post-Cold War era. The emergence of the ‘Human Rights up Front’ initiative, protection of children and Women, Peace and Security policy agendas, and normative frameworks such as the protection of civilians and the Responsibility to Protect are indicative of a tangible human protection agenda at the un. However, the extent to which human protection norms have diffused in different regions vary in important ways. Africa – one region or many – has been a norm maker, shaper and taker, as well as a major recipient of action in accordance with this nascent normative regime. This article provides an overview of regionalism in Africa and examines how perspectives and institutional expressions at the regional level(s) have been influenced by – and in turn influenced – the uptake and development of norms around human protection.

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MISSILE DEFENSE ROLES IN THE POST-COLD WAR U.S. STRATEGY

Politeja ◽

10.12797/politeja.14.2017.50.12 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 14 (5 (50)) ◽

pp. 263-293

Author(s):

Tomasz PUGACEWICZ

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Security Policy ◽

The United States ◽

Extensive Literature ◽

Missile Defense ◽

Post Cold War ◽

Defense Strategy ◽

Cold War Era ◽

Foreign And Security Policy ◽

The U.S

MISSILE DEFENSE ROLES IN THE POST-COLD WAR U.S. STRATEGY The debate on missile defense in the United States has been going on for more than half a century, and brought about extensive literature on this subject. Although many studies on BMDS are publications dedicated to U.S. strategy, foreign and security policy, only a few works are focused solely on the U.S. missile defense strategy in the post-Cold War era from the long-term perspective. The aim of this article is to discuss the U.S. missile defense strategy in the post-Cold War era. The paper consists of an introduction, three sections, and a conclusion. The introduction includes short literature review and explains the domestic and international significance of BMDS. In the first section, BMDS is defined and described, next the ongoing debate about sources of U.S. focus on missile defense development is presented. In the last section, four functions of the BMDS in the U.S. post-Cold War strategy are analyzed. Conclusion includes brief recap, as well as costs and benefits assessment of the consequences of the BMDS deployment.

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The post-cold war regionalisms of Turkish foreign policy

Journal of Regional Security ◽

10.11643/issn.2217-995x131spk28 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 25-47 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alper Kaliber

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Security Policy ◽

Global Politics ◽

Post Cold War ◽

Turkish Foreign Policy ◽

Threat Perceptions ◽

Security Interest ◽

Foreign And Security Policy ◽

The Cold War ◽

Regional Character

This study argues that the post-Cold War changes in Turkish foreign and security policy (FSP) can best be understood as the regionalization of strategic and security outlook in Turkey. Here regionalization refers to two interrelated processes: first, the process whereby security interest definitions and threat perceptions in Turkey have gained an increasingly regional character, and second the process whereby Turkey has increasingly defined itself as an activist regional power. Yet, the current study takes issue with the widespread assumption that regionalist activism of Turkish FSP can only be appropriated to the recent Justice and Development Party governments. Rather, it argues that the regionalist activism observed in the 2000s should be conceived as the second regionalist turn in Turkish FSP. The first wave of regionalization began soon after the end of the Cold War and developed in parallel to the rise of the 'region' as a new unit of security in global politics. This study compares and contrasts these two regionalist eras with a view to exploring the post-Cold War regionalization of FSP in Turkey.

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