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This accessible collection examines twelve historic events in the international relations of East Asia.
List of contents
Part I. Historicizing East Asian international relations: 1. Introduction Stephan Haggard and David Kang; 2. East Asian international relations over the longue duree Kenneth M. Swope and David Kang; 3. The political economy of the East Asian maritime world in the sixteenth century Richard von Glahn; Part II. The East Asian system over time: 4. East Asia's first world war, 643-668 CE Nadia Kanagawa; 5. The founding of the Korean Chos¿n Dynasty, 1392 Ji-Young Lee; 6. The Ming invasion of Vietnam, 1407-1427 James A. Anderson; 7. Ming grand strategy during the Great East Asian War, 1592-1598 Kenneth M. Swope; 8. The Qing unification, 1618-1683 Pamela Kyle Crossley; Part III. Contact: East and West: 9: The Zheng state and the fall of Dutch Formosa, 1662 Tonio Andrade; 10. The Opium Wars of 1839-1860 Richard S. Horowitz; 11. Matthew Perry in Japan, 1852-4 Alexis Dudden; 12. Philippine national independence 1898-1904 Andrew Yeo; 13. The Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895 Seo-Hyun Park; 14. The death of Eastphalia, 1874 Saeyoung Park; Conclusion: 15. East Asian history and international relations Andrew J. Coe and Scott Wolford.
Summary
This accessible collection of essays provides an introduction to twelve seminal events in the international relations of East Asia. The East Asian historical experience provides a wealth of new cases, patterns, and findings, helping us to move beyond Eurocentric conceptions of international relations derived from the Western experience.
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'The 1895 Venezuela crisis, the Franco-Prussian War, World War I – key events in the European and transatlantic historical experience have long shaped international relations theory. But what about the Ming invasion of Vietnam, the Qing unification, the 1894 Sino-Japanese War? In this innovative volume, Haggard and Kang argue that these and other key events in East Asian history belong in the IR canon in order for scholars to better understand world politics.' Jennifer Lind, Dartmouth College
