Introduction: Détente and the Sino-American-Japanese triangle -- The alliance dilemma and the structural dynamics of triangles -- The emergence of the Sino-American-Japanese "romantic triangle" -- Japanese economic submission to the United States: a response to the "alliance dilemma" -- Sino-Japanese normalization and the end of the American "romantic triangle" -- Japan's pursuit of Independence in foreign policy: a new response to the "Alliance dilemma" -- Conclusion: an analogy of the triangle between the détente period and today
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-157) and index
