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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This article examines the fortunes of Japanese governmental discourses and practices related to the country's international involvement in its two types of peace delivery: peace support operations and human security. The first part of the article analyses Japan's security push into (post-)conflict spaces. It is argued that in the Japanese case more than in any other, the profound separation of the military from the rest of the state apparatus has been responsible for the country's inability to bridge peacekeeping and peace-enforcement practices with human security. The second part deals with the consequences of Japan's parallel bureaucratic delivery of peace and specifically with the eventual phasing out of the Japanese military in these efforts. Thus, the analysis suggests that Japan has undergone a rebalancing of the thrust of its peace support activities in a direction similar to the previously popular chequebook diplomacy.
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