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Book SynopsisThis book is a major reassessment of the early Cold War U.S.-Japan security relationship. It draws on new archival material and the latest scholarship to demonstrate the constructive efforts of U.S. policymakers in building a lasting, albeit limited partnership with America's most important East Asian ally.
Trade Review"
Unequal Allies is a thoughtful, well-researched, and provocative contribution to our understanding of how, in the wake of a disastrous war, two enemies forged a mutually beneficial and long-lasting relationship." --
Journal of Japanese Studies"... this is a monumental task, but Swenson-Wright handles it with apparent ease, presenting his analysis and conclusions in a clear and readable manner... [The] reader is left with the sense that the USA did handle Japan well." --
Asian Affairs"This important, well-written book fills a suprising lacuna in historical literature: there is relatively little available on the development of the bilateral security relationship during this important period. Swenson-Wright also sheds new light on the roles of key US officials such as John Foster Dulles, George Kennan, and Dean Rusk in shaping US policy on Japan, as well as on the significance of Japans internal political conflict about its relationship with the US." --
CHOICE"There occassionally comes a book of refreshing insight and discovery, a book that not just adds to the margin of scholarship but prods the reader to reconsider assumed wisdom. John Swenson-Wright of Cambridge University has written such a book." --
Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsTable of Contents for Unequal Allies? Abbreviations Introduction 1. "Neither Victors nor Vanquished": Establishing the US-Japan Alliance, 1945-50 2. Negotiating the Peace and Security Treaties, 1950-51 3. Foreign and Domestic Pressures: China Policy and the Administrative Agreement, 1951-52 4. Strategic Goals versus Local Interests: Okinawa, Nuclear Weapons, and the Article III Territories, 1953-60 5. The Lucky Dragon Incident of 1954: A Failure of Crisis Management? 6. Rearmament, Security, and Domestic Policies, 1953-60 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
