1990년대 일본외교정책의 변화- 국제정치적 요인과 국내정치과정을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Japan has actively pursued foreign policy shift since the end of the cold war, particularly in the area of US-Japan security cooperation. This study, first of all, examines the content of Japan's security policy changes in the 1990s and try to single out domestic and international factors which influenced this change. Since 1990, Japan has shifted its foreign policy from its passivity to the active pursuit of international role expansion. For instance, Japan dispatched its Self Defense Forces(SDF) overseas such as participation in PKO, and through the new Outline of Defense National Program of 1995, Japan's defense forces were greatly expanded. Furthermore, in 1997, new US-Japan Defense Guidelines was established and supporting laws for the new Guidelines were enacted. This security policy changes occurred in the context of the US’s request for Japan's security role expansion and the emergence of China as a great power status after the end of the cold war. In the domestic front, there was no active opposition against security role expansion and close US-Japan security cooperation in the parliament with demise of Japan Socialist Party in the middle of 1990s. Also, the strengthening of US-Japan security cooperation was made possible not only by Japan's active adaptation to alliance's security dilemma but also by consensus among political parties.