| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 255 pages) : maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Maritime strategy and national security in Japan and Britain / Alessio Patalano -- Strategic partnership and military rivalry across the oceans -- the fulcrum of power: Britain, Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, 1880-1945 / John Ferris -- Sea power and Anglo-Japanese military relations, 1863-1923 / Haruo Tohmatsu -- Britain's strategic view of Japanese naval power, 1923-1942 / Douglas Ford -- Strategic priorities from the Cold War to Iraq -- Balancing threat perceptions and strategic priorities: Japan's post-war defence policy / Noboru Yamaguchi -- British defence policy and the transformation of the Royal Navy in the Cold War and beyond / Eric Grove -- Punching below the weight: Japan's post-Cold War expeditionary missions / Chiyuki Aoi -- Maritime strategy in an interdependent world -- the political and normative constraints to Japan's national security / Guibourg Delamotte -- 'Back to an offshore future': the role of the past in Britain's contemporary defence policy / Steven Jermy -- From alliance to coalition, then where? Japan and the US Navy cooperative strategy for the twenty-first century / Yoji Koda -- Maritime strategy in Japan and the UK: the 'island nation' model in perspective / Alessio Patalano. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This thought-provoking volume explores how, across more than a century, sea power empowered both the UK and Japan with a defensive shield, an instrument of deterrence, and an enabling tool in expeditionary missions to implement courses of actions to preserve national economic and security interests worldwide. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sea-power -- Japan -- History.
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Sea-power. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
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Sea-power -- Great Britain -- History.
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Great Britain. |
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Pacific Ocean -- Strategic aspects.
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Pacific Ocean. |
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Japan -- Relations -- Great Britain -- History.
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Relations. |
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Great Britain -- Relations -- Japan -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Patalano, Alessio, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Maritime strategy and national security in Japan and Britain. Boston : Brill, 2012 (DLC) 2012010791 |
| ISBN |
9789004212626 (e-book) |
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9004212620 (e-book) |
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1906876274 |
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9781906876272 |
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