War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919
In: Harvard East Asian Monographs v.177
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In: Harvard East Asian Monographs v.177
In: The journal of American-East Asian relations, Volume 31, Issue 1, p. 118-120
ISSN: 1876-5610
In: Japanese journal of political science, Volume 19, Issue 4, p. 587-599
ISSN: 1474-0060
AbstractWoodrow Wilson's name remains forever entwined with the Paris Peace Conference and efforts to transform geopolitics after 1918. Despite recent emphases on the power of this so-called 'Wilsonian Moment,' initiatives by the American president remain controversial, and his principal global legacy has come to be defined as the rise of nationalism in the developing world. In the historiography of modern Japan, Wilson and the Paris Conference have long been identified less as opportunities than as challenges, embodied unmistakably in Prince Konoe Fumimaro's 1918 condemnation of the conference and the proposed League of Nations as beneficial only to the USA and Britain. Reading back from 1931, historians of modern Japan have located in the Versailles settlement seeds of an epic new expansionary effort from the Manchurian Incident to the destruction of Imperial Japan. This paper, by contrast, analyzes the interwar years on their own terms and, in so doing, locates the structural foundations of a dramatic Japanese national departure. Wilson is more than a 'moment' in interwar Japan. Embraced at the very moment that a largely agricultural and regional nineteenth-century Japan becomes a twentieth-century industrial state and world power, it is potent enough to withstand the illiberal tide of the 1930s and 40s to blossom again after the Second World War.
In: International relations of the Asia-Pacific: a journal of the Japan Association of International Relations, Volume 14, Issue 2, p. 325-327
ISSN: 1470-4838
In: Diplomatic History, Volume 36, Issue 4, p. 773-775
In: Diplomatic history, Volume 36, Issue 4, p. 773-775
ISSN: 0145-2096
In: Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 7, Issue 2, p. 189-195
In: Foreign policy analysis, Volume 7, Issue 2
ISSN: 1743-8594
Developments in East Asia strengthen the claims of "ConflictSpace." The contrast between general war in 1914 and the limited Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 may be explained, in large part, by the higher degree of connectivity in 1914. The difference between Japan's swift declaration of war in 1914 and hesitation by China and the United States may, likewise, be attributed to Japan's higher connectivity. A host of independent variables, such as political will and relative military strength, can wreak havoc with the basic assumptions of ConflictSpace. But used cautiously as part of an ongoing discussion between social scientists and historians, ConflictSpace may effectively gauge the relative likelihood of the spread of war. Adapted from the source document.
In: Pacific affairs, Volume 83, Issue 1, p. 178-180
ISSN: 0030-851X
In: Orbis: FPRI's journal of world affairs, Volume 50, Issue 4, p. 745-756
ISSN: 0030-4387
In: Orbis: FPRI's journal of world affairs, Volume 50, Issue 4, p. 745-755
ISSN: 0030-4387
In: Pacific affairs, Volume 78, Issue 4, p. 662-663
ISSN: 0030-851X
Dickinson reviews MAKING WAVES: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922 by J. Charles Schencking.
In: War in history, Volume 11, Issue 4, p. 455-457
ISSN: 1477-0385
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Volume 119, Issue 1, p. 224-225
ISSN: 1538-165X