Změna bezpečnostní politiky Japonska a její důsledky

The presented thesis addresses the topic of Japanese security policy, specifically its changes between 2015-2025 and the consequences of these changes.The choice of the topic primarily reflects the relevance of Japan and its position in regional and global security. The main goal is to evaluate the change in the thematic focus of Japanese security policy and how this change is reflected in Japan's behavior as an international actor.The theoretical part focuses on key paradigms and concepts of neorealists, namely Kenneth Waltz, Stephen Walt and other prominent representatives, with the help of which the thesis creates a theoretical background for its own research. The main part in its first part is devoted to the change in Japanese security policy, and in the second part it follows its reflection, both in the internal sense and in the context of changes in the approach toward regional actors. The research results show that the key issues remain mostly the same over the past 10 years, though their importance and urgency to respond to them have increased dramatically. The paper concludes that Japanese security policy is entering a process of gradually abandoning its strongly entrenched antimilitarism in order to respond to changing power relations, especially in relation to the rise of China.