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Same War—Different Views: Germany, Japan, and Counterterrorism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2003

Peter J. Katzenstein
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Abstract

German and Japanese counterterrorism policies differ from those adopted by the United States as well as from one another. Defeated in war, occupied, and partially remade during the Cold War, Germany and Japan became clients of the United States first, then close allies. Both countries offer easy tests to explore the extent to which the United States can hope to fight the war against terrorism, as it did the Cold War, supported by a broad coalition of like-minded states. On this central point the article's conclusion is not reassuring. In contrast to the Cold War, the relative importance of different self-conceptions and institutional practices appears to be larger and the systemic effects constraining national divergences smaller. Even among the closest allies of the United States, the very early stages of the war against terrorism point to substantial strains. Over a prolonged period such strains are likely to affect profoundly long-standing patterns of alliance.

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International Organization , Volume 57 , Issue 4 , Fall 2003 , pp. 731 - 760
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 2003

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