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This book discusses Japan's international relations prior to 1945 with its focus on war and after 1945 during the Cold War era with its focus on globalization and also examines Japan's international relations as an academic discipline. Part I describes and analyzes (1) how modern Japan coped with the coerced opening of the country, (2) how major powers aspired and alternated their hegemonic positions in East Asia in the extended twentieth century and (3) how global politics has been evolving with the three distinctive paradigms: the Westphalian, Philadelphian and Anti-Utopian. Part II describes and analyzes (1) how Japan foresees the future on the eve of the Cold War: the metamorphosis from Pax Americana Phase II to Pax Consortis, (2) how Japan envisages regionalism in Asia with sub-nationally and functionally articulated ideas for East and Southeast Asia, (3) Japan's 21st century manifesto of foreign policy is presented as the best mix of classical realism, transformative pragmatism and liberal internationalism and (4) Japan's manifesto as an Asian state is to deploy manufacturing/technological statecraft on the basis of East Asian peace. Part III focuses on theorizings of international relations from various angles. In light of hyperglobalization, theorizing global politics (as distinguished from international politics) is called for with two latest studies on global quasi-legislative politics and typology of Asian societies given as examples.
List of contents
Acknowledgments - Introduction - Japan's International Relations: A Brief History - Awed, Inspired, and Disillusioned: Japanese Scholarship on American Politics - World Order Debates in the Twentieth Century: Through the Eyes of the Two-Level Game and the Second Image (Reversed) - Peering into the Future by Looking Back: The Westphalian, Philadelphian, and Anti-Utopian Paradigms - Japanese Ideas of Asian Regionalism - A Call for a New Japanese Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of a Stakeholder State - Japanese Foreign Policy as an "Asian" Country - The Study of International Relations in Japan: Toward a More International Discipline - Are There Any Theories of International Relations in Japan? - It's Global, Stupid Toward Theorizing of Global Politics - Index.
About the author
Takashi Inoguchi (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is Eminent Scholar-Professor at J.F. Oberlin University in Tokyo, Emeritus Professor at the University of Tokyo and former UN Assistant Secretary-General. He was awarded the endowed chair in ISQOLS and the lifetime achievement award from WAPOR Asia. He has published about 150 books, the latest of which is The Development of Global Legislative Politics.
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This book discusses Japan's international relations prior to 1945 with its focus on war, after 1945 during the Cold War era with its focus on globalization, and finally international relations is examined as an academic discipline.
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"In this significant work, the prominent scholar of international relations theory Takashi Inoguchi offers a useful perspective on the past and future of his academic discipline." -Kenneth B. Pyle, Henry M. Jackson Professor of International Studies Emeritus, University of Washington
