Abstract
Prime Minister Abe Shinzō’s foreign and security policy — highly charged with ideological revisionism — contains the potential to shift Japan onto a new international trajectory. Its degree of articulation and energy makes for a doctrine capable of displacing the ‘Yoshida Doctrine’ that has been Japan’s dominant grand strategy in the post-war period. Many have argued that Abe will remain pragmatic and not challenge the status quo. However, Abe has already begun to introduce radical policies that appear to transform national security, US-Japan alliance ties and relations with China and East Asia. The ‘Abe Doctrine’ is dynamic but also high risk. Abe’s revisionism contains fundamental contradictions that may ultimately limit the effectiveness of, or even defeat, his doctrine.
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