The presentation aims to understand the practical relevance of Shinzo Abe's recent security changes and their role in Abe's general security strategy.
Paper long abstract
The presentation aims to understand the practical relevance of Shinzo Abe's recent security changes and their role in Abe's general security strategy. It argues that although Shinzo Abe's ultimate goal is a revision of Japan's post-war security posture, there is still a plethora of legal, normative (popular) and even practical constraints that prevent him from doing so. In order to illustrate these constraints, the presentation analyzes the first practical implementation of the new security legislature: Japanese peacepeeking operation in South Sudan from September 2016 to May 2017.