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(★)(The basic function of all states throughout history has been to ensure the security of their populations from threat. States that have failed in their security responsibilities are usually the ones that have eventually fallen by the wayside as they lose legitimacy in the eyes of their population. Hence, security has always been at the centre of the policy-making agenda of individual states and between states. The populations and policy-makers of states have learned by harsh experience that the creation of a viable security policy is a complex task, fraught with risk, and which requires imaginative and comprehensive approaches. It is therefore ironic that during the Cold War, just as states and the international system faced the greatest destructive risks, in some ways the making of security policy became relatively easier. For while nuclear weapons posed the greatest and most immediate destructive threats in history, the bipolarity that accompanied these weapons systems also gave policy-makers the confidence --whether misguided, or not-- that they could identify clear enemies and clear strategies and procedures for dealing with the prevention of conflict. Of course, these conceptions of security did not mean global peace, as the superpowers and other major developed powers fought out their struggles through intervention in low-intensity conflicts in the developing world. Chapter 1 examines the post-Cold War security debate globally and in Japan, and notes the increasing importance of economic power-based conceptions of security policy, but also the seeming paradox of Japan´s move in this period towards a greater role in military security despite its economic power resources and traditions of economic security policy. Seeking to examine whether Japan could contribute to global security by the utilisation of economic power, Chapter 2 outlines a model of global civilian power and economic security policy to be tested in the case study. Chapter 3 introduces the case study of the North Korean security problem in the post-Cold War period and elucidates the growth of policy-making conceptions that see it as addressable by means of economic power. Chapter 4 examines the economic power capacity of Japan to assist in a resolution of the North Korean security problem. Chapter 5 then examines the key issue as to whether Japanese policy-makers have the will to instrumentalise economic power for security ends in the case of North Korea. Finally, the Conclusion draws together the arguments of the book and returns to the questions in the Introduction concerned with the role of theory, the function of economic power for security, and the future direction of Japanese security policy. [from ´Introduction´] ▼CONTENTS : 1.Global and Japanese conceptions of power and security policy in the post-Cold War era／2.Theory of economic power and security／3.Military and economic conceptions of the North Korean security problem／4.Japanese economic power and North Korea／5.The Japanese policy-making process and economic versus military security policy／Conclusion／) |
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