The following authors influenced the thinking by outlining views of the US-Japan relationship and China that members of the Armitage Report group felt important to counter.

　

Ted Galen Carpenter

"Going Too Far: Bush's Pledge to Defend Taiwan," CATO Institute, Foreign Policy Brief #66, May 30, 2001 . http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb-066es.html

　

"Paternalism and Dependence: The US-Japanese Security Relationship," CATO Institute, Policy Analysis, November 1995. http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-244es.html

　

with Dorn, James A., eds., China's Future: Constructive Partner or Emerging Threat? Washington, DC: Cato Press, July 2000. http://www.cfr.org/p/pubs/Manning_China'sFuture_Chapter.pdf

　

Steven Clemons

"The Armitage Report: Reading Between the Lines," Japan Policy Research Institute, February 2001.

　

Paul S. Giarra

"Host Nation Support, Responsibility Sharing, and Alternative Approaches to US Bases in Japan," in Cronin, Patrick; Green, Michael; eds. The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Past, Present and Future, New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, July 1999.

　

with Nagashima Akihisa. "Managing the New US-Japan Security Alliance: Enhancing Structures and Mechanisms to Address Post-Cold War Requirements," in Cronin, Patrick; Green, Michael; eds. The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Past, Present and Future, New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, July 1999.

　

Chalmers Johnson

Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. New York: Metropolitan Books, March 2000.

Okinawa: Cold War Island. Cardiff, California: JPRI Press, 1999. with Keehn, E. B. "The Pentagon's Ossified Strategy," Foreign Affairs, Vol. 74,No. 4., July/August 1995.

　

Mike Mochizuki

"The US-Japan Alliance: Beyond the Guidelines," CSIS Pacific Forum, PacNet Newsletter, No. 35, September 1, 2000.

　

ed. Toward a True Alliance. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1997.

　

Kenneth Pyle

"Uncertain Future: Revitalizing the U.S.-Japanese Alliance," Harvard International Review, XVIII, no. 2, 1996.

　

"Japan's Emerging Strategy in Asia," in Ellings, Richard J.; and Simon, Sheldon, eds. Southeast Asian Security in the New Millennium. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

　

The Japanese Question: Power and Purpose in a New Era. Washington: AEI Press, 1992.

　

Richard J. Samuels

with Heginbotham, Eric "Mercantile Realism in Japanese Foreign Policy," International Security, Vol. 22, No. 4. Spring 1998.

　

with Twomey, Christopher. "The Eagle Eyes The Pacific: American Foreign Policy Options In East Asia after the Cold War," MIT Working Paper, MITJP 97-02, 1997.

　

Rich Nation, Strong Army : National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan. Ithaca. NY: Cornell University Press, 1994.

　

Karel van Wolferen

"The Unaccountable Superpower," New Perspectives Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1992.

　

"The Japan Problem Revisited," Foreign Affairs, Vol. 69, No. 4. July/August, 1990.

　

Enigma of Japanese Power: People & Politics in a Stateless Nation. New York: Vintage Press, 1990.