Temporal identities and security policy in postwar Japan /
Through a discourse analysis of Japanese parliamentary debates, this book explores how different understandings of Japan's history have led to sharply divergent security policies in the postwar period, while providing an explanation for the much-debated security policy changes under Abe Shinzō....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2020.
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| Series: | European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian economics & business series ;
v. 14. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction and theory
- Two competing security discourses, 1945-1960
- Hypothetical enemies, 1960-1970
- The historic experiment : refusing to become a great military power, 1970-1980
- The emergence of the normal nation discourse, 1980-1990
- Discursive rise and fall, 1990-2000
- Japan as a responsible member of the international community, 2000-2010
- Breaking out of the postwar regime, 2010-2019.