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9780801872389 Academic Inspection Copy

Cultures of Antimilitarism

National Security in Germany and Japan
  • ISBN-13: 9780801872389
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Thomas U. Berger
  • Price: AUD $73.99
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  • Local release date: 14/08/2003
  • Format: Paperback 272 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: International relations [JPS]
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After suffering crushing military defeats in 1945, both Japan and Germany have again achieved positions of economic dominance and political influence. Yet neither seeks to regain its former military power; on the contrary, antimilitarism has become so deeply rooted in the Japanese and German national psyches that even such questions as participation in international peacekeeping forces are met with widespread domestic opposition. In Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan Thomas Berger analyzes the complex domestic and international political forces that brought about this unforeseen transformation.

""A remarkable documentation of these two quite different cultures, one European and the other Asian, which experienced varying political pressures, but which agreed to remain demilitarized and unaggressive.""

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