Synopses & Reviews
Asia Pacific in the Age of Globalization examines United States-East Asian relations in the framework of global history, incorporating fresh insights that have been offered by scholars on such topics as globalization, human rights, historical memory, and trans-cultural relations. It brings the history of trans-Pacific relations up to date, both chronologically and conceptually. As the wider Pacific is destined to play an increasingly crucial role in the world's strategic, political, economic, and cultural affairs, this volume will be of invaluable help to readers seeking to understand such a development in a global historical framework.
About the Author
Robert David Johnson is Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, USA. He has authored five books, and co-authored a sixth, on 20th century U.S. foreign relations, political history, and legal affairs.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Robert David Johnson
PART I: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS—HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
1.Asia Pacific Relations and the Globalization of the Environment; Nick Kapur
2.The Community of Continents; Kenneth Weisbrode
3.Power Across the Pacific; Frederick S. Calhoun
4.Trajectories of Nationalisms in East Asia; Walter A. Skya
5.Ike: The American Internationalist; Carl W. Reddel
6.Women Leaders in Diplomacy Across the Pacific; Michael A. Schneider
7.The Fragile Stability in the Asia-Pacific: Four Future Histories; Hugh DeSantis and James Przystup
8.Globalism's Conundrum; Anne R. Pierce
9.European Cooperation as a Questionable Model for Security in the Pacific Region; Ruud Janssens
PART II: TRANS-PACIFIC HISTORY AND MEMORY
10. Human Rights: Across the Pacific Both Ways?; David Webster
11. The Role of Shared Experiences in Studying Sino-American Relations; Guoqi Xu
12. The East Asia Community and the United States; Izumi Hirobe
13. Japan's Transition from 'Greater East Asia' to a Trans-Pacific Order, 1931-1960; Urs Matthias Zachmann
14. Across the Pacific: Observations on the 21st Century U.S.-China Student Movement; Yelong Han
15. Alaska, Hawai'i, and the United States as a Pacific Nation; Robert David Johnson
16. Across the Pacific and Back to Vietnam: Transnational Legacies and Memories of the Vietnam War; Edward Miller
17. The 1957 Taiwan Riots: Cultural Politics in U.S.-Taiwan Relations in the 1950s; See Heng Teow and Yang Huei Pang
PART III: CULTURE AND INTERNATIONALISM
18. Religion, Ideology, Culture and the Integration/Disintegration of the Pacific World; Evan Dawley
19. Emotions in Intercultural Relations; Barbara Keys
20. The Rise of Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-East Asia Relations; Terry Lautz
21. Beyond the Call of Duty: Cosmopolitan Education and the Origins of Asian-American Women's Medicine; Steffen Rimner
22. Leningrad Comes to America: The 1942 American Premiere of the Shostakovich Seventh Symphony; Jonathan Rosenberg
23. Culture and Anti-Imperialism; Frank Ninkovich