2008 Volume 7 Pages 73-82
Japanese foreign security policy in the post cold war era has been in serious disorder in terms of agenda setting practice due to its insufficient sense of independence in international politics, lack of adequate framework for agenda setting, and absence of time factor.
While giving false priority to transnational issues or non-traditional security, Japan fails to perceive its vital agendas ; to recognize the geopolitical severity it faces and to reconstruct US-Japan relations in the new context.
We need to reexamine transnational issues as policy agenda and awake the false premise of enduring Japan-US alliance, in order to proper formation of foreign security policy along with a sense of crisis.
One of the key is to motivate a new type of policy community in the field.
