Japan's defense policy and bureaucratic politics, 1976-2007
By: Takao Sebata
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780761850816; 9780761850823
Subjects: National security; Defenses; Appropriations and expenditures; Military relations; Military policy; Armed Forces; Decision making; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-404) and index.
Table of contents: title: Comparative aspects and theoretical framework; title: Decision-making structure and players; title: Creation of the National Defense Program Outline and the 1 percent ceiling of the gross national product; title: The decision to break the 1 percent ceiling of the gross national product; title: Re-evaluation of the National Defense Program Outline; title: The midterm operations estimate in the 1980s and Japan's response to the Gulf War of 1991; title: The National Defense Program Outline of 1995; title: The Guidelines for United States-Japan Defense Cooperation of 1978 and 1997 and the National Defense Program Outline of 2004.