Old Cold War Type Relations Do Not Serve Japan

... at the US security assistance to its allies as a kind of fee-for-service arrangement? The US society remains deeply divided, and it is hard to expect a long-term consistent foreign policy from a divided society. Andrey Gubin: The East Expands into NATO: Japan’s and South Korea’s New Approaches to Security Second, is it really in the long-term interests of Japan to contribute to building a new rigid bipolarity in global politics? Many other major powers—India, Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, to name a few—are trying to use the current turning point in international developments to articulate their independence or at least their ...