The U.S.-Japan Security Alliance

" The US-Japan Security Alliance provides an excellent and up-to-date effort to think through the US-Japan relationship, and how the latter country is to fit into an Asia increasingly dominated by a rising China. The chapters of this book examine the problem from multiple perspectives and suggest pathways to new security architectures in Northeast Asia. " - Francis Fukuyama, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

" Although there are several books about the U. S. -Japan security alliance, few look at it equally from the perspective of both countries, or in the broader framework of the alliance s relationships with other important nations in the region. This volume does both. Most welcome too is a particular consideration for how the " alliance dilemma" of Japan s fear of entrapment versus abandonment has played out over time, and how complicated regional and domestic factors are affecting the " ambiguities" that used to help sustain the alliance. This is a very useful book both for its comprehensive overview of the alliance in broader perspective and for its several in-depth case studies of the alliance and other nations in the region. " - Ellis S. Krauss, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego

' With political change in Japan, growing fiscal pressures on Washington and Tokyo, and new challenges from China and North Korea, we are primed for another redefinition of the U. S. -Japanalliance. Inoguchi, Ikenberry and Sato help to map the way with this collection of essays from some of the leading thinkers on Asian security and U. S. -Japan relations. " - Michael J. Green, Georgetown University and the Center for Strategic and International Studies

" The durability of the U. S. -Japan alliance lies in its capacity to constantly redefine itself to adapt to the ever-changing security equation in Asia and beyond. This volume is amongst the first and no doubt the most far-reaching attempts to capture the role and mission the alliance is pursuing anew. " - Shotaro Yachi, Former Vice-Minister at Japan' s Ministry of Foreign Affairs