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Japan's maritime security strategy: The Japan coast maritime outlaws
In this book,Black combines a solid conceptual framework with rich empirical data. In developing the framework, he first problematises accounts of established English School theorists. Through the application of Western standards, these tend to reproduce orientalist views. Still, the distinction between normality and abnormality and between insiders and outsiders is central to Black’s work. The book’s main conceptual tool is that of outlaws. Outlaws are actors who do not conform to the norms and rules of international society as defined by great powers. As such, outlaws, outsiders or ‘others’ are an inherent part of and indispensable for defining what the international society is, what behaviour is acceptable and what is not. While outlaws are seen as threatening the global order, it would hardly be possible to define this order without referring to actors who do not conform to it. Thus, the label ‘outlaw’ applies to state actors such as North Korea as well as to non-state actors such as pirates and terrorists. By responding to outlaw threats, great powers act as norm entrepreneurs in international society and Japan has done so in several respects.
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