East Asian strategic review 2015
- Tokyo : Japan Times , 2015.
- xiv, 321 p. : ill.
Executive Summary -- Chapter 1 Japan: New development of National Security Policy -- Chapter 2 The Korean peninsula -- Chapter 3 China: The Xi-Li administration faces tough going -- Chapter 4 Southeast Asia: the South China Sea grows more complicated -- Chapter 5 Australia: Bipartisan consensus for deeper engagement in Asia -- Chapter 6 Russia: Japan and Russia hold first ever two-plus-two meeting of foreign and defence ministers -- Chapter 7 The United Sates: Asia Pcific rebalancing put to the test -- Chapter 8 Afghanistan: eyes focused on the ISAF withdawal -- Chapter 9 The shale revolution and the international security environment.
Annual review from a Japanese perspective which features regular commentaries on regional geopolitics and security matters and a special theme. This year the special subject is the rapid development of shale oil and gas potential and the implications of this for international relations.
9784789016032 (pbk.)
JAPAN --DEFENCE POLICY EAST ASIA --REGIONAL SECURITY SOUTH CHINA SEA JAPAN --FOREIGN RELATIONS --RUSSIA UNITED STATES --PIVOT TO ASIA AUSTRALIA --DEFENCE POLICY SHALE GAS SHALE OIL