Maritime Strategy and National Security in Japan and Britain -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF MAPS, FIGURES AND TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- CONVENTIONS -- MAPS -- INTRODUCTION: MARITIME STRATEGY AND NATIONAL SECURITY IN JAPAN AND BRITAIN -- PART ONE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP AND MILITARY RIVALRY ACROSS THE OCEANS -- CHAPTER ONE THE FULCRUM OF POWER: BRITAIN, JAPANAND THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION, 1880-1945 -- CHAPTER TWO SEA POWER AND ANGLO-JAPANESEMILITARY RELATIONS, 1863-1923 -- CHAPTER THREE: BRITAIN'S STRATEGIC VIEW OF JAPANESE NAVAL POWER, 1923-1942 -- PART TWO: STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FROM THE COLD WAR TO IRAQ -- CHAPTER FOUR: BALANCING THREAT PERCEPTIONS AND STRATEGIC PRIORITIES: JAPAN'S POST-WAR DEFENCE POLICY -- CHAPTER FIVE: BRITISH DEFENCE POLICY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE COLD WAR AND BEYOND -- CHAPTER SIX: PUNCHING BELOW ITS WEIGHT: JAPAN'S POST-COLD WAR EXPEDITIONARY MISSIONS -- PART THREE: MARITIME STRATEGY IN AN INTERDEPENDENT WORLD -- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE POLITICAL AND NORMATIVE CONSTRAINTS TO JAPAN'S NATIONAL SECURITY -- CHAPTER EIGHT: 'BACK TO AN OFFSHORE FUTURE': THE ROLE OF THE PAST IN BRITAIN'S CONTEMPORARY DEFENCE POLICY -- CHAPTER NINE: FROM ALLIANCE TO COALITION, THEN WHERE? JAPAN AND THE US NAVY COOPERATIVE STRATEGY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- CHAPTER TEN: CONCLUSION MARITIME STRATEGY IN JAPAN AND THE UK: THE 'ISLAND NATION' MODEL IN PERSPECTIVE -- INDEX.