Is Japan Still a Civilian Power? The 2015 New Security Legislation (NSL) and Internationalism

• In Event: Military Effectiveness and Civil-Military Relations

Brief Overview

Amidst the slow demise of internationalism in domestic security debate, the NSL does not diminish Japan's civilian power credentials but also allows only a meager expansion of its intl. security role, thus hardly augments its civilian power role.

Author

• Bahadir Pehlivanturk, TOBB University of Economics and Technology