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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The United States has two faithful allies in Canada and Japan. Established at
different points in the twentieth century, the two alliances have grown and
flourished, helping to maintain an American-led order in the Asia-Pacific
and beyond. By any reasonable measure, few states are as integrated in
the American security sphere as these two. In David A. Lake's index of US
"security hierarchy," which measures a variety of bargaining mechanisms
through which states voluntarily trade autonomy and sovereignty for order,
prosperity, and cheaper security provided by the US, Japan ranks fifth and Canada eighth.1
From this perspective, it is not surprising that Japan and
Canada are participating in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program.
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