| ID | 050579 |
| Title Proper | Chian views the revised US-Japan defense guidelines: popping the cork ? |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Midford, Paul |
| Publication | 2004. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper considers whether an alliance can have a reassurance effect on a third-party. It uses hypotheses derived from balance-of-malevolence theory. Using the revised 1997 US-Japan Defence guidelines as a primary case, Chinese reactions are found to provide greater support for balance-of malevolence theory. Side evidence from Japan's decision in the early 1990s to begin deploying troops overseas to participate in humanitarian and UN peacekeeping operations, and its dispatch of naval ships to the Indian ocean in the wake of 9-11, confirm the centrality of Chinese concerns about Japan' disposition as amilitary power and the reassurance value of the US alliance and 'containment frameworks' such as UN peacekeeping. This also suggests that the demonstrarion effect of benign overseas deployments ca be effective in overcoming negative attributions about a state's disposition as a military power. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Relations of the Asia-Pacific Vol. 4,No.1; 2004; p.113-145 |
| Journal Source | International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 2004-01 4, 1 |
| Key Words | China-United States ; United States-Japan ; Japan-Defense |