A billion dollars in aid to Pakistan over two years. That is a huge donation from Japan to try and assist the stabilisation of the Pakistani economy and to aid the fight against terrorism. It is also a large portion – in fact a quarter – of the total package pledged by about 40 countries [...]
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Billion Dollar Pledge – Why?
Posted in global security, tagged aid, billion dollars, collapse, donation, non-state actors, pakistan, security on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Count-Down
Posted in Global politics, Military Involvement, tagged ballistic, emergency, rocket, security, taepodong, threat on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The threat of a rocket launch of has produced sensitive and heated response from three siginificant players in the North East Asian security region – the US, South Korea and neighbouring Japan. The North Koreans have claimed that their action merely represent a wish to place a communications satellite into orbit. Critics believe the real [...]
Security and Responsibility
Posted in Military Involvement, tagged Pacifism, responsibility, security on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Following World War Two, Japan’s new pacifist constitution renounced the right to wage war and maintain military forces. Yet Japan needed some form of national self defence and therefore a Self-Defense Force was created with a strictly defensive mandate. In recent years, though, the line between defence and offence has become difficult to distinguish.
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