TY  - JOUR
TT  - Japan’s Middle East Security Policy: Rethinking Roles and Norms
AU  - Miyagi, Yukiko
PY  - 2016
DA  - July
JF  - Ortadoğu Etütleri
JO  - JMES
PB  - Ortadoğu Araştırmaları Derneği
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1309-1557
SP  - 9
EP  - 32
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
KW  - Anti-militarizm
KW  - Ulusal Normlar
KW  - Barışı Sağlama
KW  - ABD’ye Eklemlenme (Bandwagoning)
KW  - Petrol Çıkarı
KW  - Dengeleme
N2  - This article looks at the trends in Japan’s Middle East policy on politico-security issues since the beginning of the 1970s. It observes that Japanese policy started with a stance sympathetic to the Palestinians and the Arab and Islamic states but shifted towards neutral and then towards more pro-US positions over time. It suggests this trend can be explained by international structural change and power shift, from a period of relatively cohesive Arab and Islamic states that had more weight vis-à-vis the US and the West towards one which saw a decline of Arab unity and the oil weapon, and a shift towards US hegemony. The paper also points out a gradual change in Japan’s main policy tool towards the Middle East, from non-military to military approaches over time. The paper argues that Japan’s clear pro-US military-activist policy seen in the Iraq war was a primary example of such changes, reflecting the afore-mentioned international changes, but also due to Japan’s domestic political conditions – an erosion of anti-militarist norm in particular; however, it also suggests that Japanese policy in the Iraq war should be understood as an exception, a product of certain special conditions
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