Christopher W. Hughes: Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy Under the „Abe Doctrine“Giulio Pugliese

ASIEN – Nr. 139 (2016) pp. 146–48

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmil­ lan, 2015.X, 96pp., 65,21 USD

This timely book is a valuable companion to understanding the foreign and security policy initiatives undertaken by the second Abe Shinzo administration. The book’s six brisk chapters assess the origins, domestic impact, and international ramifications of Abe’s security and diplomatic revolution. In addition, the author caps his comprehensive and pondered rendition of changes in Japan’s security system with a disenchanted take on the apparent dynamism of the “Abe Doc­
tine”