Alliance in Anxiety: Detente and the Sino-American-Japanese Triangle

by Go Tsuyoshi Ito

Overview

This book analyzes the structural dynamics of the Sino-American-Japanese triangular relationship by exploring how the 1971 Nixon-Kissinger announcement to pursue reapprochment with the People's Republic of China (PRC), in the context of the overal detente strategy, fundamentally altered the U.S.-Japanese relationship. It argues that the systematic structure of international relations in East Asia during the detente period was similar in significant ways to today's post-Cold War period. Highlighting the importance of China to U.S. policy options towards East Asia enables us to provide a more informed perspective on future directions of the Sino-U.S.-Japanese triangular relationship in the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415864930
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/17/2019
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Go Ito is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at Meiji University.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Détente and the Sino-American-Japanese Triangle 2. The Alliance Dilemma and the Structural Dynamics of Triangles 3. The Emergence of the Sino-American-Japanese "Romantic Triangle" 4. Japanese Economic Submission to the United States: A Response to the "Alliance Dilemma" 5. Sino-Japanese Normalization and the End of the American "Romantic Triangle" 6. Japan's Pursuit of Independence in Foreign Policy: A New Response to the "Alliance Dilemma" 7. Conclusion: An Analogy of the Triangle Between the Détente Period and Today