... at the US security assistance to its allies as a kind of fee-for-service arrangement? The US society remains deeply divided, and it is hard to expect a long-term consistent foreign policy from a divided society.
Andrey Gubin:
The East Expands into NATO: Japan’s and South Korea’s New Approaches to Security
Second, is it really in the long-term interests of Japan to contribute to building a new rigid bipolarity in global politics? Many other major powers—India, Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia,...
... soon have to think about the limits and purpose of expanding the organization’s areas of activity.
Julia Melnikova:
Route Restored? Results of the NATO Summit in Madrid
The Bargaining Yen
Fumio Kishida was Japan’s first premier to ever attend a NATO summit. Japan’s leader
called
for enhancing Tokyo’s ties with NATO based on the 2014
Individual Partnership and Cooperation Programme
. However, he also proposed permanently attaching representatives of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces to NATO’s headquarters,...
... ultimately become an effective global “policeman.” The US originally declared the “global NATO” idea in 2004 using Nicholas Burns, then ambassador to NATO, as its mouthpiece. In 2006, his successor Victoria Nuland
said
that NATO “should focus on deepening its co-operation with countries such as Australia and Japan and becoming a genuine globally deployable force.”
Another obstacle to the active involvement of Europe in the APR is the lack of effective institutional structures for dialogue.
Are the other NATO members ready to positively respond to such ...
