Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination

by Atsuko Watanabe

Overview

This book is the first attempt to comprehensively introduce Japanese geopolitics. Europe’s role in disseminating knowledge globally to shape the world according to its standards is an unchallenged premise in world politics. In this story, Japan is regarded as an enthusiastic importer of the knowledge. The book challenges this ground by examining how European geopolitics, the theory of the modern state, traveled to Japan in the first half of the last century, and demonstrates that the same theory can invoke diverged imaginations of the world by examining a range of historical, political, and literary texts. Focusing on the transformation of power, knowledge, and subjectivity in time and space, Watanabe provides a detailed account to reconsider the formation of contemporary world order of the modern territorial states.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030043988
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	03/05/2019
Series:	Critical Security Studies in the Global South
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	265
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Atsuko Watanabe is Associate Professor at Hosei University, Japan and formerly held an associate fellowship at the Centre of the Study of Globalization and Regionalization at the University of Warwick, UK.

Table of Contents

Ch. 1: Introduction: Standing in a Place, Imagining a Space

Ch. 2: Contextualizing Traveling Theory

Ch. 3: Inside of the Place of Interpretation

Ch. 4: Analytical Framework

Ch. 5: Identifying the Site of Creation

Ch. 6: The Importation of Geopolitics into Japan

Ch. 7: Japanese Geopolitics

Ch. 8: Conclusion: A Successful Journey?

Editorial Reviews

The book is a valuable addition to the literature on international political theory … . for anyone interested in the social construction of the modern state, modernity, and world order, the book provides a well-grounded theoretical foundation for such inquiry.” (Hong Kong Nguyen, Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, Vol. 6 (3), 2019)

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