| Publication |
2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
After the end of the Cold War, Japan became very active in its security policy. How
can we explain this phenomenon? This essay argues that (neo-) realist settings
(the end of the Cold War, the Taepodong missile launch) have triggered changes
in Japanese domestic security culture, which subsequently affected Japanese
security policy. In spite of rationalist theorists' criticism of the constructivist
approach for not being able to clarify independent and dependent variables, this
essay attempts to elucidate the relationship between security culture and policies
thereof. By utilizing "cultural process-tracing," this paper investigates how cultural
elements become linked and internalized into policymaker-level and illustrates
the causal relationship between these two.
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