Title: Liberal Deterrence of China: Challenges in Achieving Japan’s China Policy
Abstract: One of the biggest challenges facing Japan and the United States is to incorporate China into the global community as a responsible and constructive member. This has been a long-held policy objective for the two countries, especially Japan. Since the 1970s, Japan has sought to make China economically affluent, politically stable, friendly, and engaged with the outside world. The U.S.-Japan alliance was one of the two main methods of pursuing this objective; economically engaging China was the other. This policy, which I call liberal deterrence, combines elements of deterrence, economic interdependence, and security interdependence.1 Liberal deterrence allowed Japan to realize its policy goals vis-a-vis China. In pursuing this goal, Japan expected the U.S.-Japan alliance to serve three functions: to deter China's aggressive behavior, alleviate the security dilemma, and induce good behavior from China.KeywordsEconomic InterdependenceSecurity InterdependenceSoviet ThreatChina ThreatSecurity DilemmaThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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