Civilian Power and Political-Security Strategy: A Case Study of Japan in Southwest and Southeast Asia

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Assistant professor of yazd university

2 University of Tehran

10.22080/jpir.2024.26154.1353

Abstract

Civilian power avoids militarism and uses soft tools to achieve its goals. Germany, Japan, and the European Union are considered as civilian powers. The purpose of research is comparing the political-security strategy of civilian power with an emphasis on Japan political – security strategy in Southwest and Southeast Asia.The question of the research is what are the characteristics of the political-security strategy of civilian powers for achieving their goals in general and Japan as a civilian power in Southwest Asia and Southeast Asia?. The results show that the civilian powers mainly rely on the power of the hegemon to provide their political security goals. It is for this reason that Japan in Southwest Asia in the form of accommodative starategy and in Southeast Asia, until 2010 in the form of same strategy, sought to realize its political-security goals, but from 2010 onwards, it seems that it intends to use the Collaborative buck-passing strategy with US to pursue its political - security goals: For this reason, it is said that in addition to soft balancing, Tokyo also uses hard balancing tools to control China. The research method used is from the type of matching the theory with the case and the comparative qualitative analysis method.

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