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Nuclear Weapons In Japanese Strategic Culture, Logan Joseph Douglas Campbell
Nuclear Weapons In Japanese Strategic Culture, Logan Joseph Douglas Campbell
MSU Graduate Theses
Acquiring nuclear weapons of its own has been inconsistent with Japan’s post-Cold War strategic culture, which is heavily based on an identity and associated norms grounded in nuclear pacifism. However, Japan’s strategic culture has been evolving with changing threat perceptions, eroding international nuclear nonproliferation norms, and declining confidence in US security guarantees. As Japan’s strategic culture shifts towards a more pragmatic interpretation of its national interests, acquiring nuclear weapons may become a more easily legitimized option, one that would be entirely consistent with a remilitarized strategic culture. Scholarship on Japanese strategic culture is vast but lacks a strategic culture explanation …
Islands In The Sun: Lawfare And Great-Power Competition In The Indo-Pacific, Clayton T. Russo
Islands In The Sun: Lawfare And Great-Power Competition In The Indo-Pacific, Clayton T. Russo
MSU Graduate Theses
This thesis examines the U.S.-Japan Mutual Defense Treaty and its future considering the recent developments in the international security environment. The 2018 National Defense Strategy brought back an emphasis on Great Power Competition, fundamentally transforming the role of U.S. alliances to address new challenges. In the 2021 budget, the Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI) has prioritized the People’s Republic of China as the number one pacing threat to theUnited States, drastically shifting international focus away from the Middle East and towards East Asia. In conjunction with funding new capabilities through the PDI, the U.S. will need to conceive new legal doctrines …
Japan: Nuclearizing The Reclining Dragon?, Michael Ladon Cribb Jr.
Japan: Nuclearizing The Reclining Dragon?, Michael Ladon Cribb Jr.
MSU Graduate Theses
Japan may be about to cross the threshold of a slow march toward nuclearization. This thesis will highlight signals that Japan not only has the means to develop nuclear weapons but maybe approaching a culmination point where Japan will cross the nuclear threshold. This thesis relies on a range of open-source documents and previously classified documents of the United States and Japan in order to reveal some of these subtle indications. Japan relies on four main factors to maintain its non–nuclear status: its alliance with the United States, nuclear deterrence underwritten by the United States, regional stability, and the nuclear …