Japan’s Rush to the Pacific War

Lionel P. Fatton is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Webster University Geneva, Switzerland, and Research Collaborator at the Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, Meiji University, Japan.

• 1. Overbalancing as a Systemic Pathology.- 2. Explaining Japan’s Rush to the Pacific War.- 3. Appropriate Balancing in the Naval Arms Control Era, 1920-1931.- 4. The Manchurian Crisis as an Exogenous Shock, 1931-1933.- 5. Overbalancing and Japan’s Rush to the Pacific War, 1933-1941.- 6. Beyond Japan and the Pacific War.