Dear Colleagues,

Apologies in advance for any cross-posting of message from other fora, and too much promotion not really my style, but I thought it might be worthwhile to draw your attention to a new book that I have just published on Japan's security and defence strategy.

Japan as a Global Military Power: New Capabilities, Alliance Integration, Bilateralism-Plus has been released online this month by Cambridge University Press.

The book, through Gold Open Access, is permanently available for anyone to download in full in PDF format for free from Cambridge Core at this link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/japan-as-a-global-military-power/839164B08927CCA1BC48586FB64B578C

The print version of the book will be available in September.

The book is part of the Politics and Society in East Asia series edited by Mary Alice Haddad, Ben Read and Erin Chung.

I hope the book is of interest to a variety of researchers and students, especially at an increasingly crucial moment in Japan's debate over its military pathway.

The abstract is reproduced below to give you a sense of its contents and arguments.

Best wishes,

Chris

Abstract: Japan is emerging as a more prominent global and regional military power, defying traditional categorisations of a minimalist contribution to the US-Japan alliance, maintaining anti-militarism, seeking an internationalist role, or carving out more strategic autonomy. Instead, this Element argues that Japan has fundamentally shifted its military posture over the last three decades and traversed into a new categorisation of a more capable military power and integrated US ally. This results from Japan's recognition of its fundamentally changing strategic environment that requires a new grand strategy and military doctrines. The shift is traced across the national security strategy components of Japan Self-Defence Forces' capabilities, US-Japan alliance integration, and international security cooperation. The Element argues that all these components are subordinated inevitably to the objectives of homeland security and re-strengthening the US-Japan alliance, and thus Japan's development as an international security partner outside the ambit of the bilateral alliance remains stunted. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Professor Chris Hughes, PhD, FAcSS, PFHEA | Pro-Vice-Chancellor/Vice-President (Education) | Professor of International Politics & Japanese Studies, Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) | University of Warwick |c.w.hughes@warwick.ac.uk | Research website: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/people/hughes/| Co-Editor The Pacific Review: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/pre20/current

Sharon Smith | Senior PA University Executive Office | E: sharon.smith@warwick.ac.uk|