Kontinuität im Wandel oder erneuter Umbruch? Die Veränderungen der japanischen Sicherheitspolitik gegenüber China

Abstract

Despite the vast research on the deterioration of Sino-Japanese security relations, little is known about the influence of domestic changes in Japan’s institutional setting on the formulation of its security policy towards China. Until 2010, Japanese foreign policy decision-makers eschewed a direct classification of China as a threat for Japan’s traditional security in official publications of the government. However, this significantly changed when Japanese state officials defined China as a potential military threat for the first ti Show more