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Unlikely diplomats: the Canadian brigade in Germany, 1951–1964

Despite an imperfect organization of the chapters coupled with a few errors in punctuation, grammar and style, the full text is unambiguously readable as well. The goals of this publication compiled with the empirical evidence-oriented case research projects by other chapter contributors have eventually been fulfilled as well. As one might expect, partial findings of this book were disseminated through several international conferences and workshops. Overall, in spite of some methodological drawbacks, the book could positively make a sense for the existing literatures on foreign policy and IR in addition to Japanese studies and Asian affairs due to the editors’ freshly unpacked risk-based approach, with some important tips for future research. Last but not least, even though the piece with its “constructive pessimism” as against “constructive optimism”might not be of more fascination to the Japanophiles, it will most likely sensitize the Japanese strategic thinkers and political leaders who desperately need a series of distinct and coherent decisions as well as radical and concomitant rearrangement in Tokyo’s foreign policy domains to help protect their homeland, when more effectively bringing the gravest risks into line, smoothly systematizing the frequent risks and harmoniously governing the predictable risks with not only Japan’s neighboring hostile enemies but also its distant hegemonic allies during a “tumultuous time” but a “turning point” in their nation’s controversial events in history.