1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461781503321

Titolo

Maritime strategy and national security in Japan and Britain [[electronic resource] ] : from the first alliance to post-9/11 / / edited by Alession Patalano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Brill, 2012

ISBN

1-280-69854-3

9786613675507

90-04-21262-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

359/.030941

Soggetti

Sea-power - Japan - History

Sea-power - Great Britain - History

Electronic books.

Pacific Ocean Strategic aspects

Japan Relations Great Britain History

Great Britain Relations Japan History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Maritime strategy and national security in Japan and Britain / Alessio Patalano -- Strategic partnership and military rivalry across the oceans -- the fulcrum of power: Britain, Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, 1880-1945 / John Ferris -- Sea power and Anglo-Japanese military relations, 1863-1923 / Haruo Tohmatsu -- Britain's strategic view of Japanese naval power, 1923-1942 / Douglas Ford -- Strategic priorities from the Cold War to Iraq -- Balancing threat perceptions and strategic priorities: Japan's post-war defence policy / Noboru Yamaguchi -- British defence policy and the transformation of the Royal Navy in the Cold War and beyond / Eric Grove -- Punching below the weight: Japan's post-Cold War expeditionary missions / Chiyuki Aoi -- Maritime strategy in an interdependent world -- the political and normative constraints to Japan's national security / Guibourg Delamotte -- 'Back to an offshore future': the role of the past in Britain's contemporary defence policy / Steven Jermy -- From



alliance to coalition, then where? Japan and the US Navy cooperative strategy for the twenty-first century / Yoji Koda -- Maritime strategy in Japan and the UK: the 'island nation' model in perspective / Alessio Patalano.

Sommario/riassunto

Sharing a similar geography at the opposite ends of the Eurasian Continent and dependent on maritime trade to supplement the lack of strategic resources, both the UK and Japan relied on the sea for their economic survival and independence as sovereign states. From the first alliance in 1902, through the World Wars, to the more recent operations in the Indian Ocean and Iraq, sea power has played a central role in the strategic calculus of both countries. This thought-provoking book, comprising contributions from a group of international scholars, explores the strategic meaning of being an island nation. It investigates how, across more than a century, sea power empowered - and continues to empower - both the UK and Japan with a defensive shield, an instrument of deterrence, and an enabling tool in expeditionary missions to implement courses of action to preserve national economic and security interests worldwide. Positioned within the comparative literature on Japan and the UK, the volume will have wide-ranging appeal including studies in Anglo-Japanese Relations, Naval Military History, and Studies in East Asian Defence and Sucurity, including Anglo-American and US-Japan strategic interests.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460635503321

Autore

Raadschelders J. C. N.

Titolo

Global dimensions of public administration and governance : a comparative voyage / / Jos C.N. Raadschelders, Eran Vigoda-Gadot, with Mirit Kisner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-119-02612-1

1-119-02625-3

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (579 p.)

Disciplina

351

Soggetti

Public administration

Comparative government

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance: A Comparative Voyage; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; The Authors; 1 Globalization and Government: Combining Global and Comparative Perspectives upon the State of Modern Government; Levels of Analysis and Understanding; Globalization; Combining a Global and Comparative Perspective; Combining the Studies of Administration and Politics; Audience for and Structure of This Book; Concluding Remarks: ``Flying ́́and Comparing across the Globe

Part One: The Origin, Development, and Dissemination of Government: Structuring Territory and Organization2 The Roots and Development of Governance, Government, and Public Administration: The Envelopment of Local Communities in Upper-Local Polities over Time; Types of Governing Associations; All Government and Governance Started Local; The Emergence of Territorial States as Upper-Local Polities; A Global Model of Government Development; The Development of Thinking about Government: From Political Theory to Public Administration; Comparing Government Models: Concluding Remarks



3. Structuring Governance and Government: The Layered Territorial and Bureaucratic Organization of the WorldTerritoriality and Property; Territorialization of the World; International Boundaries; Subnational Jurisdictions: Historical Trends; Subnational Jurisdictions: The Contemporary Situation; Bureaucracy as Organizational Structure: The Bureaucratization of the World; The Influence of Colonization; Concluding Remarks: Boundaries Creating Polities; 4. State Making, Nation Building, and Citizenship; Defining State and Nation; State Making: Models and Explanations

The Separation of Organized Religion and the State: A Recent Phenomenon?Nation Building: From Subjects to Citizens; Citizenship as Layered Phenomenon; A Future for State, Nation, and Citizenship?; 5. Political-Administrative Systems and Multilevel Government; Basic Distinctions of Political Systems; Five Types of Political Systems in Relation to Political Party System; Unitary and Federal Systems; Typologies of Democratic Systems; Presidential and Parliamentary Systems; Party-Political and Bureaucratic-Prominent Systems

The Three Branches of Government and Core Features of Democratic Political SystemsThe Structure of Government Departments; Multilevel and Multiactor Government and Governance; Concluding Remarks; 6. Bureaucratic Organization and Culture; Defining Bureaucracy: The Influence of Max Weber and His Fears; Bureaucracy in the Evolution of Human Communities: The Origin of the Stereotype?; Societal Culture; Organizational Culture; Perceptions of Public Individuals; Sucking Water from Straws or Opening the Tap in the Kitchen

7. Organization, Management, and Policy: Comparing the Competencies of Government and Public Administration

Sommario/riassunto

A comparative, interdisciplinary examination of the mechanisms behind public administration  Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance is a comprehensive, comparative text on the structure and function of governments around the world. Written by two of the field's leading public administration scholars, this book provides an interdisciplinary perspective and a global, historical, and theoretical examination of the management and governance of the modern state. Readers learn how territory, bureaucracy, and political systems influence policy and reform in over thirty countries, a