Date of Publication
2016
Document Type
Dissertation/Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in International Studies major in Asian Studies
College
College of Liberal Arts
Department/Unit
International Studies
Thesis Advisor
Julio C. Teehankee
Defense Panel Chair
Ron Vilog
Defense Panel Member
Elaine Tolentino
Benjamin San Jose
Abstract/Summary
made international headlines when its National Diet enacted the two controversial security bills which provide legal provision for the JSDF to operate more broadly and expand Japan’s freedom to provide logistical support to foreign militaries or defend the United States and other allies against an armed attack. Following significant security developments such as the reinterpretation of the Constitution’s Article 9 and the establishment of Japan’s first National Security Council, the enactment of these security bills potentially mark a departure from Japan’s post-war security policy which is grounded in the Constitution’s imposed pacifism and the country’s domestic culture of antimilitarism. Scholars, specifically those under the realist tradition of international relations theory have interpreted these security developments as a reflection of Japan moving towards remilitarization or normalization. They believe that structural factors such as the military rise of China and the nuclear threat from North Korea have forced Japan to reconsider its foreign and security policy. This study challenges these accounts by arguing that the fundamental changes that the country is currently undergoing can be explained by a particular shift in Japan’s security identity which consequently reconfigured how the security policies of the state are processed. Instead of international structural factors, this study explores Japan’s security identity vis-à-vis the country’s policymaking institutions in an attempt to shed light on the recent changes under the leadership of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Puzon, J. P. (2016). The transformation of Japan's security policy: security identity under Shinzo Abe. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdm_intlstud/16
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