This essay analyses Alfred Zimmern's scheme for a global British Commonwealth. A prominent British liberal internationalist and leading early scholar of International Relations, Zimmern developed an anti-racial account of empire and international order. In conceptualizing a British Commonwealth, he sought to replace "race" with "nation" as the basic ontological category of world ordering. The idea of cultural Zionism, formulated by Ahad Ha'am, played a key role in Zimmern's attempt. Ahad Ha'am's account of non-statist Jewish nationalism served as a useful ideological device for Zimmern to theorize a multinational Commonwealth without acknowledging colonial demands for self-determination. The essay also shows that Horace Kallen's notion of American cultural pluralism helped Zimmern to consolidate his project for the post-racial empire.
Seiji riron to jisshō kenkyū o tsunagu wa : keikenteki bunseki niokeru gainen bunseki no yakuwari / 稗田健志 [著] -- Kansatsu kanōna mono to kansatsu fukanōna mono : kihan keiken no kubetsu no saikentō / 田村哲樹 [著] -- Tasha eno shien o dōkizukeru dōjō to awaremi : sābei jikken niyoru dōtokuteki chokkan no kenshō / 河野勝 三村憲弘 [著] -- "ippyō no kakusa" o meguru kihan riron to jisshō bunseki : nihon deno giron wa nani ga mondai nanoka? / 粕谷祐子 [著] -- Seisaku adobokashī niokeru seiji riron to jisshō bunseki no kyōgō to kyōdō : toshi to mobiriti o meguru shomondai o jirei toshite / 井上弘貴 [著] -- Kokusai kankei kenkyū no shōrai : kokusai kankei no kenkyū kara gurōbaru kankei no kenkyū e / 芝崎厚士 [著] -- Shakai jikken to ribatarian patānarizumu wa sekai no hinkon o sukū? : enjo no shinchōryū ni kansuru seiji rironteki ichikōsatsu / 木山幸輔 [著] -- Soreyue komon'uerusu e shintai o sasageta : arufureddo jimān "girisha no kyōwakoku" to teikoku kyōwa shugi / 馬路智仁 [著] -- 1980nendai ikō no iryō kyōkyū seido kaikaku no tenkai : seisaku gakushūron no shiza kara / 竜聖人 [著] -- 2013nen doitsu renpō gikai senkyo no bunseki to renpō seiji eno gan'i / 中川洋一 [著] -- Chūō chihō kankei niokeru seitō rūto no yakuwari : zaisei iten kaikaku no nihon kanada hikaku / 城戸英樹 [著] -- Chihō gikai senkyo no tokuhyō bunseki : giin kōdō to senkyo tono tsunagari / 築山宏樹 [著]