ABSTRACT
The EU as part of its Global Strategy (CSFP) and Japan in its National Security Strategy embrace human security as a principle of their foreign policy. The EU and Japan share common liberal values like democracy, individual freedoms and human rights, and subscribe to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle. The EU and Japan are often described as civilian powers with limited possibilities of actively using military instruments in their foreign policy. Indeed, cooperation in human security was included in the EU–Japan Action Plan of 2001. However, actual results to this day in human security cooperation between the EU and Japan remain rather modest. Japanese human security policies emphasise its ODA policies and development cooperation. In contrast, EU CSDP missions have peace-building as their primary focus. This chapter argues that the gap in the introduction of human security and the subsequent difference of emphasis in the content of human security largely account for the slow development of cooperation.
