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On The Fricative Relationship Of The U.S.-Japan Military Alliance After World War Ⅱ

Posted on:2004-09-25Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Y HeFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360095962693Subject:International relations
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Soon after the world war II, Japan and the U.S came into military alliance against a special historical background. During the past fifty years and more, the alliance has experienced close cooperation relationship as well as friction and conflict. In order to have a better understanding on the nature of the U.S.-Japan is to reveal the conflicting interests and different strategic objectives behind their defense cooperation, and how cultural differences exert influence over their pursuit of interests and shape their strategic preference through a historical perspective.The paper will study the history of the U.S.-Japan alliance frictions from six aspects. Firstly, we'll explain how the frictions emerge when signing the alliance treaty. Because I think it is important to lay bare the differences in their interest and strategy suggested by these frictions. Secondly, the paper will analyze the frictions concerning how to bear the defense expenses between the two countries. Although they are allies, they think in ways that conform to their state interests, and if the expense undermines their interests, the friction will surface. Thirdly, the paper will deal with the frictions on Japanese defense forces and defense expenses. I'll not only analyze the origin and development of the "free-ride", and different "burden sharing" views, but also analyze how the Japan makes use of the alliance relationship to enhance its economical power, and make use of American pressure to strengthen its military power. Fourthly, the paper will discuss the frictions on military technology. They have a contest of military technology. With the rise of Japanese power in technology, conflicts produced by the U.S.-Japan alliance in the military technology also become conspicuous. Fifthly, the paper will investigate the frictions on the military base. I'll take the Okinawa as a case study, which consists of two kinds of conflict: the negotiation process of the Okinawa's return Japan and crimes committed by American soldiers on the base. Finally, the paper will deliberate over the frictions on the oversea dispatching of e Japanese national defense team. Through the study, we can see that on the one hand, in order to realize its supremacy strategy, the U.S. take advantage of the U.S-Japan security alliance structure to demand that Japan make a greater contribution to defense, and on the other hand, in order to make the U.S.-Japan alliance's structure move effectively and carry out its own strategy, Japan has been coping with the contradiction between its constitution and the U.S-Japan security alliance structures, endeavoring to develop its defense policy and widen the range of the movement of its self-defense team . The Japanese self -defense team's oversea dispatching and break through the forbidden zone of the collective self-defense right has indicate that Japan is eager to be a politics and military power states.Based on the historical study of frictions, the paper probes into the root reasonsof the conflicts, and concludes that the state interests, the stage strategy and the political cultures are the major factors that bring forth frictions. The differences of the three factors between Japan and U.S. play a part in the origin and development of the conflicts.All factors joint to produce and deepen the U.S.-Japan frictions. Just because of these frictions, they have developed a kind of interrelated relation, both out of mutual interests and strategic needs. Therefore their frictions always be coordinated, and at the same time the alliance relationship strengthened, after which the frictions of the alliance develop by a spiral way. The spiral development and repetition are the characteristics of their frictions that influence the U.S.-Japan alliance on both sides. Firstly, frictions strengthen the alliance relationship because they find that they rely on each other. Secondly, conciliation means more intensive conflicts, hence the spiral development of frictions .All in all, I think the alliance has an internal frailty , and that weakn...
Keywords/Search Tags:The U.S.-Japan alliance, friction and conflicts, state interests, state strategy, and politics culture.
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