The first study to investigate, in depth, Japan's reaction to the recent diplomatic, military and economic security crisis generated by North Korea.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Global and Japanese conceptions of power and security policy in the post-Cold War era; Chapter 2 Theory of economic power and security; Chapter 3 Military and economic conceptions of the North Korean security problem; Chapter 4 Japanese economic power and North Korea; Chapter 5 The Japanese policy-making process and economic versus military security policy; conclusion Conclusion;

Christopher W. Hughes is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick.