Walter Hatch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1249231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter Hatch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter |
| FAMILY NAME | Hatch |
| SIGNATURE | HATCH W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ghosts in the Neighborhood
Germany, which brutalized its neighbors in Europe for centuries, has mostly escaped the ghosts of the past, while Japan remains haunted in Asia. The most common explanation for this difference is that Germany knows better how to apologize; Japan is viewed as "impenitent." Walter F. Hatch rejects the conventional wisdom and argues that Germany has achieved reconciliation with neighbors by showing that it can be a trustworthy partner in regional in…
Building Legislative Coalitions for Free Trade in Asia
Reviewed by: Building Legislative Coalitions for Free Trade in Asia: Globalization as Legislation by Megumi Naoi Walter F. Hatch (bio) Building Legislative Coalitions for Free Trade in Asia: Globalization as Legislation. By Megumi Naoi. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015. xvi, 213 pages. $110.00, cloth; $88.00, E-book. Ideally, a strong piece of social science analysis will effectively challenge a commonly held assumption. Maybe two. Thi…
Launching a New Kind of Journal in Japan
When I showed up for my job interview at Todai Shaken in March 1998, I was very nervous. This was due not only to the fact that I had to face a phalanx of some of Japan’s most impressive social scientists, but moreover, that I would need to try to answer their questions in Japanese. It also had to do with the realization that, were I to be hired, I would be serving as the first managing editor of an academic journal that promised to break new gro…
Bloody Memories
For political elites in any nation, war museums serve as powerful storytellers. They may reflect and even help shape collective identity. But the effect is especially strong in the case of authoritarian regimes that are able to tell a consistent, coherent narrative about a past conflict. In this analysis, drawing on insights from commemoration studies, comparative politics, and international relations, I look at three museums in Japan, which is p…
Organizing Civil Society in Russia and China
Asia's Flying Geese
In Asia's Flying Geese, Walter F. Hatch tackles the puzzle of Japan's paradoxically slow change during the economic crisis it faced in the 1990s. Why didn't the purportedly unstoppable pressures of globalization force a rapid and radical shift in Japan's business model? In a book with lessons for the larger debate about globalization and its impact on national economies, Hatch shows how Japanese political and economic elites delayed-but could not…
Japanese Investment in the World Economy
Reviewed by: Japanese Investment in the World Economy: A Study of Strategic Themes in the Internationalisation of Japanese Industry Walter Hatch (bio) Japanese Investment in the World Economy: A Study of Strategic Themes in the Internationalisation of Japanese Industry. By Roger Farrell. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K., 2008. xi, 459 pages. $215.00. As the title suggests, this is an ambitious book. Broad in scope and rich in detail, it examines th…
Turning Western, turning Asian
Cultural analysis, an increasingly popular approach, contributes to our understanding of comparative and global politics by drawing needed attention to non-material factors. In some forms, however, this approach may also strip political actors of agency, treating norms and ideas as external, independent and determinative. Gramsci offers a useful corrective, highlighting the elusive link between material and non-material factors. I invoke Gramscia…
Japan and the Reconstruction of East Asia (review)
Japanese Electronics Multinationals and Strategic Trade Policies
Japanese electronics firms have grown into formidable competitors on world markets but have only seriously expanded their manufacturing presence world-wide since 1985. This volume probes the unique features of Japanese multinationals, and shows how trade policies in the United States and the European Union have shaped the rapid internationalization of Japanese firms in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It will be essential reading for anyone who wa…
Network Power
Japanese Business into the 21st Century
Asia in Japan's Embrace
This book is an incisive analysis of Japan's deepening economic presence in Asia. It challenges neoclassical economists, arguing that instead of simply building a 'yen bloc' or responding to market forces, Japanese business and government elites are working together to build an expanded - and potentially exclusive - production zone. The authors suggest that the transplantation of many standard Japanese business practices in Asia is based on the c…
Japan's Asia Policy
This volume provides a timely and expert analysis of Japan's Asia policy as the country continues to address the future through trying to cope with the burden of a chequered past. Dr Mendl locates his expostion of Japan's policy towards both North-East and South-East Asia in a full historical and cultural context and importantly takes due account of the underlying and potent factor of national identity in shaping international outlook. He begins …
Asia in Japan's Embrace
This book is an incisive analysis of Japan's deepening economic presence in Asia. It challenges neoclassical economists, arguing that instead of simply building a 'yen bloc' or responding to market forces, Japanese business and government elites are working together to build an expanded - and potentially exclusive - production zone. The authors suggest that the transplantation of many standard Japanese business practices in Asia is based on the c…
Organizing Civil Society in Russia and China
Asia in Japan's Embrace
This book is an incisive analysis of Japan's deepening economic presence in Asia. It challenges neoclassical economists, arguing that instead of simply building a 'yen bloc' or responding to market forces, Japanese business and government elites are working together to build an expanded - and potentially exclusive - production zone. The authors suggest that the transplantation of many standard Japanese business practices in Asia is based on the c…
Turning Western, turning Asian
Cultural analysis, an increasingly popular approach, contributes to our understanding of comparative and global politics by drawing needed attention to non-material factors. In some forms, however, this approach may also strip political actors of agency, treating norms and ideas as external, independent and determinative. Gramsci offers a useful corrective, highlighting the elusive link between material and non-material factors. I invoke Gramscia…
Asia in Japan's Embrace
This book is an incisive analysis of Japan's deepening economic presence in Asia. It challenges neoclassical economists, arguing that instead of simply building a 'yen bloc' or responding to market forces, Japanese business and government elites are working together to build an expanded - and potentially exclusive - production zone. The authors suggest that the transplantation of many standard Japanese business practices in Asia is based on the c…
Asia in Japan's Embrace
This book is an incisive analysis of Japan's deepening economic presence in Asia. It challenges neoclassical economists, arguing that instead of simply building a 'yen bloc' or responding to market forces, Japanese business and government elites are working together to build an expanded - and potentially exclusive - production zone. The authors suggest that the transplantation of many standard Japanese business practices in Asia is based on the c…
Japan's Asia Policy
This volume provides a timely and expert analysis of Japan's Asia policy as the country continues to address the future through trying to cope with the burden of a chequered past. Dr Mendl locates his expostion of Japan's policy towards both North-East and South-East Asia in a full historical and cultural context and importantly takes due account of the underlying and potent factor of national identity in shaping international outlook. He begins …
Network Power
Japanese Business into the 21st Century
Japanese Electronics Multinationals and Strategic Trade Policies
Japanese electronics firms have grown into formidable competitors on world markets but have only seriously expanded their manufacturing presence world-wide since 1985. This volume probes the unique features of Japanese multinationals, and shows how trade policies in the United States and the European Union have shaped the rapid internationalization of Japanese firms in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It will be essential reading for anyone who wa…
Japan and the Reconstruction of East Asia (review)
Asia's Flying Geese
In Asia's Flying Geese, Walter F. Hatch tackles the puzzle of Japan's paradoxically slow change during the economic crisis it faced in the 1990s. Why didn't the purportedly unstoppable pressures of globalization force a rapid and radical shift in Japan's business model? In a book with lessons for the larger debate about globalization and its impact on national economies, Hatch shows how Japanese political and economic elites delayed-but could not…
Japanese Investment in the World Economy
Reviewed by: Japanese Investment in the World Economy: A Study of Strategic Themes in the Internationalisation of Japanese Industry Walter Hatch (bio) Japanese Investment in the World Economy: A Study of Strategic Themes in the Internationalisation of Japanese Industry. By Roger Farrell. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K., 2008. xi, 459 pages. $215.00. As the title suggests, this is an ambitious book. Broad in scope and rich in detail, it examines th…
Turning Western, turning Asian
Cultural analysis, an increasingly popular approach, contributes to our understanding of comparative and global politics by drawing needed attention to non-material factors. In some forms, however, this approach may also strip political actors of agency, treating norms and ideas as external, independent and determinative. Gramsci offers a useful corrective, highlighting the elusive link between material and non-material factors. I invoke Gramscia…
Organizing Civil Society in Russia and China
Bloody Memories
For political elites in any nation, war museums serve as powerful storytellers. They may reflect and even help shape collective identity. But the effect is especially strong in the case of authoritarian regimes that are able to tell a consistent, coherent narrative about a past conflict. In this analysis, drawing on insights from commemoration studies, comparative politics, and international relations, I look at three museums in Japan, which is p…
Launching a New Kind of Journal in Japan
When I showed up for my job interview at Todai Shaken in March 1998, I was very nervous. This was due not only to the fact that I had to face a phalanx of some of Japan’s most impressive social scientists, but moreover, that I would need to try to answer their questions in Japanese. It also had to do with the realization that, were I to be hired, I would be serving as the first managing editor of an academic journal that promised to break new gro…
Building Legislative Coalitions for Free Trade in Asia
Reviewed by: Building Legislative Coalitions for Free Trade in Asia: Globalization as Legislation by Megumi Naoi Walter F. Hatch (bio) Building Legislative Coalitions for Free Trade in Asia: Globalization as Legislation. By Megumi Naoi. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015. xvi, 213 pages. $110.00, cloth; $88.00, E-book. Ideally, a strong piece of social science analysis will effectively challenge a commonly held assumption. Maybe two. Thi…
Ghosts in the Neighborhood
Germany, which brutalized its neighbors in Europe for centuries, has mostly escaped the ghosts of the past, while Japan remains haunted in Asia. The most common explanation for this difference is that Germany knows better how to apologize; Japan is viewed as "impenitent." Walter F. Hatch rejects the conventional wisdom and argues that Germany has achieved reconciliation with neighbors by showing that it can be a trustworthy partner in regional in…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Business (6 works) · International trade (6 works) · China (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (4 works) · Law (4 works)