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100 1 _aHUGHES Christopher W
245 _aNot quite the Great Britain of the far east :
_b Japan's security the US-Japan alliance and the war on terror in East Asia/
_c Christopher W Hughes
260 _c2007
520 _aThis article argues that Japan is far from assuming the role. For Japan war and terror serves more as a political protect for legitimating long planned changes in military security policy that are often only marginally related to US's anti-terrorism agenda. The final conclusion is that US military hegemony may be weakened by Japan's and the Asia Pacific's divergence from the US global security agenda.
650 _aJAPAN
_xSECURITY
650 _aUNITED STATES
_xJAPAN
650 _aWAR
650 _aTERROR
773 _aCambridge Review of International Affairs :
_g Vol.20, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 325-338 (93)
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999 _c8373
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