Cool War: The Future of Global Competition by Noah Feldman

Author:Noah Feldman [Feldman, Noah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Business & Money, Economics, Economic Conditions, International, Law, Foreign & International Law, Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government, International & World Politics, Asian, Diplomacy, Specific Topics, Political Economy, International Law, Relations
ISBN: 9780679643838
Amazon: B00BH0VSS0
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

The ghosts of Pearl Harbor must have stirred in 2012 when Rear Admiral Fumiyuki Kitagawa took his place at the head of a fleet of forty-eight vessels and 25,000 sailors off Hawaii. Second in command of this Pacific armada, Kitagawa was certainly the first Japanese naval officer since World War II to preside over such a formidable array of ships and men. His role was especially striking since Japan’s navy, like the rest of its armed forces, is legally restricted to self-defense, a legacy of the pacifist constitution imposed by General Douglas MacArthur.

But the highly visible role played by Kitagawa and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force in the Pacific Rim (RIMPAC) naval exercises—the biggest such exercises in the world—reflected a change in the U.S.-Japan defense alliance. Where once the United States had been convinced that it must handle Pacific security itself, it now sought active partnership with its enemy-turned-ally. Japan, for its part, saw value in strengthening its own military role. The reason for this historic change was the rise of China, the one Pacific power that, Kitagawa smilingly noted in an interview, “was not invited” to join RIMPAC.1

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