What is it about?

This article tries to show that Japan and the United States has created a non-war community that is the so-called "a security community." The most important feature of a security community is the existence of collective identity. This article challenges to show its existence by using the case of the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991.

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Why is it important?

The vast majority of the study of security community has used Euro-American regions. The only exception was Amitav Acharya's ASEAN. This article contributes to expand the inter-regional studies on security community, i.e. transpacific relationship.

Perspectives

We need to study peaceful areas around the globe. Why has peace sustained, and embedded in their sense of community? We need to elaborate the scope of peaceful structure we now live.

Dr. Hidekazu Sakai
Kansai Gaidai University

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This page is a summary of: The United States-Japan Security Community–Emerging Collective Identity: The Case of the Persian Gulf War (1990–1991), Asian Security, September 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2016.1222372.
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