YUZAWA Takeshi <br/><br/>
Japan's security policy and the Asean Regional Forum :  the search for multilateral security in the Asia-Pacific / 
Takeshi Yuzawa 
 - London:  Routledge.  2007 
 - xiii, 219 p. 
<br/><br/> Study of the factors that led in the early 1990s to Japan's rapid increase of interest in the ARF as a multilateral security institution, its support for confidence building measures and preventive diplomacy, and of the reasons why that enthusiasm has dwindled in recent years. Various aspects if international relations theory are employed throughout the book. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415403375 (hbk) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>JAPAN --NATIONAL SECURITY<br/>JAPAN--MULTILATERAL RELATIONS--SOUTHEAST ASIA<br/>ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM<br/>SOUTHEAST ASIA--REGIONAL SECURITY<br/>JAPAN--FOREIGN POLICY--SOUTHEAST ASIA