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Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination

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  • © 2019

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Authors:
  1. Atsuko Watanabe

    1. Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  • Includes a fresh approach to understanding the formation of a contemporary world of diverse forms of state
  • Situates the discussion in a wider context of global intellectual history by going beyond national and disciplinary boundaries
  • Highlights the importance of the act of knowing and the cognitive gaps that have arisen in the course of political theory’s travel

Part of the book series: Critical Security Studies in the Global South (CSSGS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Standing in a Place, Imagining a Space

    • Atsuko Watanabe
    Pages 1-24

  3. Contextualizing Traveling Theory

    • Atsuko Watanabe
    Pages 25-58

  4. Inside the Place of Interpretation

    • Atsuko Watanabe
    Pages 59-92

  5. Analytical Framework

    • Atsuko Watanabe
    Pages 93-120

  6. Identifying the Site of Creation

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    Pages 121-151

  7. The Importation of Geopolitics into Japan

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    Pages 153-186

  8. Japanese Geopolitics

    • Atsuko Watanabe
    Pages 187-218

  9. Conclusion: A Successful Journey?

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    Pages 219-230

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 231-265
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About this book

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.





                            

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“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)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Atsuko Watanabe

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.



                          

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