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John H. Makin is a resident scholar at AEI.
Table of Contents
Foreword Contributors Introduction
American Economic and Military Leadership in the Postwar Period The Burden of Japanese History and the Politics of Burden-Sharing National Defense and Foreign Trade: The Sweet and Sour Relationship between the United States and Japan The Relationship between Defense Spending and Economic Performance in Japan A New Stage of the United States-Japan Alliance Japan's Role in the International System Shedding History's Inertia: The U.S.-Japan Alliance in a Changed World The Imperatives for Reciprocity and Symmetry in U.S.-Japanese Economic and Defense Relations
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