Militarism, Knowledge, and Representation: Making Sense of the Changes in Japan’s Global Security Policies in the 1990s.

Japan’s mobilization of its Self-Defense Forces (SDFs) for the purpose of statecraft began in the 1990s. The notion that the SDFs contribute to Japan’s statehood and global security seems to be a new idea. Existing explanations such as the security arrang ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]