Description: This book traces Japan's role in multilateral arenas from the post World War I Paris Peace Accords to the post Cold War Era, focusing on its involvement or non-involvement at the United Nations. Known most notably for its economic prowess, Japan is exploring ways to play a greater global role by implementing foreign policy with an emphasis on multilateralism to help maintain international peace and security. The author proposes that a new concept of cooperative security can be the guiding principle for Japan's multilateral diplomacy at the United Nations and in the Asia-Pacific as a way to surmount unanswered questions over Japan's role in collective defense and collective security in view of constitutional restrictions and its past history as aggressor.

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