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Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations
Global Dialogues: Non Eurocentric Visions of the Global
44,99 € |
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Verlag: | Rowman & Littlefield International |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 16.09.2018 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781786603692 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 270 |
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<span><span>In an ever more globalized world, sustainable global development requires effective intercultural co-operations. This dialogue between non-western and western cultures is essential to identifying global solutions for global socio-political challenges. <br><br></span><span>Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations</span><span> critiques the formation of non-western International Relations by assessing Japanese political concepts to contemporary IR discourses since the Meji Restoration, to better understand knowledge exchanges in intercultural contexts. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of this dialogue, from international law and nationalism to concepts of peace and Daoism, this collection grapples with postcolonial questions of Japan’s indigenous IR theory.</span></span>
<span><span>First book-length investigation of modern Japanese political thought and IR with a focus on non-western and indigenous Asian practices of IR.</span></span>
<span><span>Japan as Potential: Communicating across Boundaries for a Global International Relations: An Introduction, </span><span>Felix Rösch and Atsuko Watanabe</span><span> / </span><span>Part I: Challenging International Law and towards a Global IR? Investigations into Japan’s Entry into the Westphalian System of Nation-States </span><span>/ Chapter 1. How Did Two </span><span>Daos</span><span> Perceive the International Differently? </span><span>Atsuko Watanabe and Ariel Shangguan</span><span> / Chapter 2. Japan's Early Challenge to Eurocentrism and the World Court, </span><span>Tetsuya Toyoda</span><span> / C</span><span>hapter 3. Kōtarō Tanaka (1890-1974) and Global International Relations</span><span>, </span><span>Kevin M Doak</span><span> / </span><span>Part II. Empire-Building or in Search for Global Peace? Japanese Political Thought’s Encounter with the West</span><span> / Chapter 4. Unlearning Asia: Fukuzawa’s Un-regionalism in the Late Nineteenth Century, </span><span>Atsuko Watanabe</span><span> / Chapter 5. Pursuing a More Dynamic Concept of Peace: Japanese Liberal Intellectuals' Responses to the Interwar Crisis, </span><span>Seiko Mimaki</span><span> / Chapter 6. Rethinking the Liberal/Pluralist Vision of Japan’s Colonial Studies, </span><span>Ryoko Nakano</span><span> / </span><span>Part III. Local(ized) Japanese Political Concepts for a Twenty-First Century IR</span><span> / Chapter 7. Who are the People? A History of Discourses on Political Collective Subjectivity in Post-War Japan, </span><span>Eiji Oguma</span><span> / Chapter 8. </span><span>Amae </span><span>as Emotional Interdependence: Analyzing Japan’s Nuclear Policy and US-Japan Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, </span><span>Misato Matsuoka</span><span> / Chapter 9. The Pitfalls in the Project of Overcoming Western Modernity: Rethinking the Lineage of the Japanese Historical Revisionism, </span><span>Hiroyuki Tosa</span><span> / </span><span>Part IV. Forming an Imagined Community, yet Reaching People Globally? Japanese Popular Culture in Historical Perspective</span><span> / </span><span>Chapter 10. From Failure to Fame: Shōin Yoshida’s Shifting Role in the Mythology of Modern Japan</span><span>, </span><span>Sean O’Reilly</span><span> / Chapter 11. Hayao Miyazaki as a Political Thinker: Culture, Soft Power, and Traditionalism beyond Nationalism, </span><span>Kosuke Shimizu</span><span> / Chapter 12. Who’s the Egg? Who’s the Wall? – Appropriating Haruki Murakami’s ‘Always on the Side of the Egg’ Speech in Hong Kong, </span><span>Michael Tsang</span><span> / Conclusion: Is there any Japanese International Relations Theory? </span><span>Atsuko Watanabe and Felix Rösch</span><span> / Notes on Contributors / Index</span></span>
<span><span>Felix Rosch is Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Coventry University.<br><br>Atsuko Watanabe is Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo.</span></span>