Alliance Security Dilemmas in the Iraq War, 2012 German and Japanese Responses

This book explains and elaborates the concept of alliance security dilemma through a case study of two similar countries caught in the same situation: Germany, which opposed the US decision to attack Iraq in 2003, and Japan, which supported it.

Background Regional Security Environments (Europe vs. East Asia) Alliance Institutions (NATO vs. the US -Japan Security Treaty) Military Institutions (The German Army vs. Japan Ground Self-Defense Force) Theoretical Alternatives and Implications

Natsuyo Ishibashi is a postdoctoral fellow in the Japan Program, Department of Sociology and Social Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).