After Defeat - How the East Learned to Live With the West

Informationen zum Autor Ay¿e Zarakol is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University. She teaches courses on global politics, international security and political theory, and her research focuses on the social evolution of the international system and the integration of regions outside of the West into the modern international order. Klappentext This book demonstrates how a sense of stigma has shaped the foreign policies of states torn between the East and the West. Zusammenfassung Turkey! Japan and Russia were all once competitors of the West! but have had to adapt to Western norms following defeats at the hands of the West. This book examines how a sense of stigma has shaped the foreign policies of states torn between the East and the West. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Of Gates and Keepers in the International System: 1. Outsiders and insiders in the international system; 2. States as outsiders; Part II. An Imperial Message: 3. The 'barbarians': Turkey (1918-39); 4. The 'children': Japan (1945-72); 5. The 'enigma': Russia (1990-2007); 6. Conclusion: 'Zealots or Herodians'?

Product details

• Authors: Ayse Zarakol, Ayse (Washington and Lee University Zarakol
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521191821
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19182-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Internati
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education