A01=Fabrizio Coticchia
A01=Francesco Niccolo Moro
A01=Matteo Dian
Author_Fabrizio Coticchia
Author_Francesco Niccolo Moro
Author_Matteo Dian
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Category=JPA
Category=JPB
Category=JPS
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Category=JWC
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Category=JWL
Category=JWT
Defence
Defence policy
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German and Japanese Foreign Policy
Germany
International Relations
Italian
Italy
Japan
Military policy
Military Transformation
Modern Military History
Security Studies
Strategic Studies
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- ISBN 9781474467285
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2025
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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While armed forces in several countries underwent deep transformations after the end of the Cold War, few, if any, experienced more radical changes than Germany, Italy and Japan. This book explores how these three countries have modified the posture and structure of their militaries over the past three decades. While each country has had to overcome a pacifist constitution, a widespread view in both elite and public opinion that war was a taboo and armed forces should be designed to defend and deter against large-scale threats, they have all become more active security providers over recent decades.
Each country, however, has followed a distinct path. This book reconstructs these paths to show how a mixture of external and domestic factors affected the pace and the extent of transformations. The book also identifies critical junctures in such processes: any push to change it argues is mediated by the need to come to terms with the cumbersome weight of the past.
Fabrizio Coticchia is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political and International Sciences at the University of Genoa, Italy. Matteo Dian is Associate Professor of History and International Relations of East Asia in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna, Italy. Francesco N. Moro is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe in Bologna, Italy.
