明治維新からSDIまで

日本の安全に関する理論的・歴史的考察

抄録

“Security theory” and “strategic theory” are profoundly related. However, deep research on Japan on historical evolution processes have never been conducted in the framework of the above-mentioned relations between security and strategy. The author has tried to explicate the meaning of “security” values within the framework of origins of the state, particularly based on Tilly's theory of state origins. The author has tried to answer three questions which he has himself raised.
The three question are:
(1) What kind of pattern Japan's search for security took over the past 120 years from the Meiji Restoration to SDI?
(2) What kinds of profound changes and transformations of security theory and its environment were produced over time as a result of the rapid development of military science and technology?
(3) What is imminent and necessary for the peace and security of Japan in the present stage of the development of the Asia and Pacific?
In describing the historical pattern of security policy of Japan from the Meiji Restoration to the defeat of Japan in the Pacific War, the author focuses on the so-called “worst case learning networks” produced by the Westphalian International System and analyzes the learning process of Japanese leaders who participated in these networks.
However, in his description of the post-World War II period, the author has rather tried to focus on the revolutionary dimensions of the characteristics of war as influenced especially by the development of the atomic bomb, and also on the relationship of traditional security values to these revolutionaly aspects of military science and technology.
The author furthermore analyzes the security values of Japan in the age of Star Wars and the development of SDI research within the entirely new paradigm of computer science. The author's emphasis on the relationship among MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction), NUTS (Nuclear Utilization Strategy) and DEAD (Destruction Entrusted Automatic Devices) is the notable in the sense that the author also raises the necessity of a new “Global Take-Off” by means of “alternative marginal developments” within a “Global Survival Machine” making optimal use of the globalization of Japanese economy.