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Japan: Deciphering Prime Minister Ishiba’s Strategic Vision. Toward an Asian version of NATO?

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On Tuesday, October 1, Shigeru Ishiba was sworn in as Prime Minister of Japan. His proposal to revise the security alliance with the United States and create an Asian version of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) attracted attention and sparked lively debate.

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On October 1, Shigeru Ishiba was sworn in as Prime Minister of Japan. An expert in strategic and defense issues, his proposal to revise the security alliance with the United States and create an Asian version of NATO has sparked heated debate. 

Continuing the defense reforms initiated by Shinzo Abe and Fumio Kishida, Ishiba also aims to strengthen Japan’s strategic autonomy by revising Article 9 of the Constitution, rebalancing roles within the Japan-US alliance, diversifying its strategic partners and adopting confidence-building measures with China.

For the time being, the idea of an Asian NATO seems unrealistic; the regional security architecture in the Indo-Pacific appears to be moving less toward a collective defense pact than a system of integrated deterrence, structured around alliances and security pacts. Japan and the Japan-US alliance play a central role in this. 

 

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Japan: Deciphering Prime Minister Ishiba’s Strategic Vision. Toward an Asian version of NATO?

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Research Fellow, Head of Japan and Indo-Pacific Research, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

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Asia is a nerve center for multiple global economic, political and security challenges. The Center for Asian Studies provides documented expertise and a platform for discussion on Asian issues to accompany decision makers and explain and contextualize developments in the region for the sake of a larger public dialogue.

The Center's research is organized along two major axes: relations between Asia's major powers and the rest of the world; and internal economic and social dynamics of Asian countries. The Center's research focuses primarily on China, Japan, India, Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific, but also covers Southeast Asia, the Korean peninsula and the Pacific Islands. 

The Centre for Asian Studies maintains close institutional links with counterpart research institutes in Europe and Asia, and its researchers regularly carry out fieldwork in the region.

The Center organizes closed-door roundtables, expert-level seminars and a number of public events, including an Annual Conference, that welcome experts from Asia, Europe and the United States. The work of Center’s researchers, as well as that of their partners, is regularly published in the Center’s electronic journal Asie.Visions.

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