October 27, 2010

Renewal: Revitalizing the U.S.-Japan Alliance

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Over its lifetime, the U.S.-Japan alliance has proven a resounding success. This report outlines how the United States and Japan can fully realize the alliance’s potential and lays out concrete steps to enhance U.S.-Japan security cooperation and strengthen the bilateral institutions, public support, and fiscal health that constitute the alliance’s foundation.

"The U.S.-Japan alliance is at a turning point. As the two allies celebrate a half century of accomplishments, they confront a strategic environment of unprecedented complexity," write the authors. "In this strategic environment, the alliance has immense potential to advance American and Japanese interests and to contribute to a peaceful and prosperous world. Nonetheless, the alliance’s potential may well go untapped. The United States and Japan should move quickly to address new security challenges together and, in so doing, renew a partnership that has benefited both allies and the region for decades."

Authors

  • Abraham M. Denmark

  • Daniel Kliman

    Former Program Director and Senior Fellow, Indo-Pacific Security Program

    Daniel M. Kliman is the former Program Director and Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He is an expert in As...

  • Patrick M. Cronin

    Former Senior Advisor and Senior Director, Asia-Pacific Security Program

    Patrick M. Cronin is a former Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Previously, he was the ...

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