Thomas U Berger
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 702182 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas U Berger |
| PRENOMES | Thomas U |
| SOBRENOME | Berger |
| ASSINATURA | BERGER T U |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-0584-2781 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Germany and Japan
Signifying the return of great power revisionism by all means, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has had a dramatic impact on the security and defense postures of Germany and Japan, two key US allies with strong anti-military foreign policy traditions based on peace constitutions. In analyzing the two countries’ far-reaching adjustments between 2022 and 2024, this article reflects on four major factors to explain the respective trajectories: threat pe…
The triumph of hope over experience
Japan's economic power was one of the key sources of its influence in the Asian region. As the first Asian nation to successfully industrialize and modernize, Japan developed an enormous head start over other Asian nations, a gap that only began to narrow in the 1980s. Japan has long sought to promote the development of Asian regional institutions, beginning in the 1960s when it proposed the creation of a Pacific Asian Free Trade Area and took th…
War, Guilt, and World Politics after World War II
When do states choose to adopt a penitent stance towards the past? When do they choose to offer apologies for historical misdeeds, offer compensation for their victims and incorporate the darker sides of history into their textbooks, public monuments and museums? When do they choose not to do so? And what are the political consequences of how states portray the past? This book pursues these questions by examining how governments in post-1945 Aust…
The Search for Reconciliation
Japan in Asia
Roundtable Discussion of Jennifer Lind'S Sorry States
How can Japan put its past behind? Scholars, journalists, and activists frequently argue that Japan cannot solve its “history problem” unless it follows West Germany's lead in offering contrition for World War II violence. Into this debate, Jennifer Lind's Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics offers an original and provocative contribution. Lind argues that while countries should acknowledge past atrocities, frequent public apologies…
Securing Japan
Journal Article Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia by Richard J. Samuels Get access Securing Japan: Tokyoʼs Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asiaby Richard J. Samuels. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2007. 277pp. $29.95. Thomas U. Berger Thomas U. Berger Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 124, Issue 1, Spring 2009…
Dealing with Difficult Pasts
Japan in International Politics
Political Order in Occupied Societies 1
The American occupations of Germany and Japan have many lessons to offer the United States today as it contemplates creating new political orders in Afghanistan and Iraq. The lessons that are to be drawn are not, however, the ones that are usually drawn by the current administration and others. First and foremost, a systematic comparison with the German and Japanese experiences clearly shows that the preconditions for democratization are not pres…
The Construction of Antagonism
Over the past decade, Japan has moved toward greatly enhancing its regional security role within the framework of the U.S.-Japan security treaty. 1 Japans provision of logistical support to U.S. forces fighting in Afghanistan is one important, concrete reflection of this trend, and provides a welcome contrast to Japanese inaction during the Gulf campaign a decade earlier. 2 Japans willingness to assume such a role gready strengthens the U.S. abil…
Cultures of Antimilitarism
Both Japan and Germany have had long traditions of militarism, culminating in the two countries' aggressive actions in World War II. Today, after suffering crushing military defeats in 1945, both countries have again achieved positions of economic dominance and political influence. Yet neither seeks to regain its former military power. On the contrary, antimilitarism has become so deeply rooted in the Japanese and German national psyches that eve…
A Perfectly Normal Abnormality
For decades Japan and the Federal Republic of Germany have gone to extraordinary lengths to cultivate as low a profile as possible on defense and national security policy matters. However, since the Gulf War, the Federal Republic has come under growing pressure from its allies to assume a greater international security role. Slowly, reluctantly it has acceded to these demands, albeit at the expense of considerable internal angst and turmoil. At t…
The Victim as Hero
Germany, Japan and the war on terror
Beyond the Demonology of Power
Jeffrey Anderson, German Unification and the Union of Europe (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999)Thomas Banchoff, The German Problem Transformed: Institutions, Politics and Foreign Policy, 1945-1995 (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1999
Set for stability? Prospects for conflict and cooperation in East Asia
The Asian Pacific region is highly unstable, but not for the reasons usually assumed. Contrary to the assertions of Realists, who argue multipolarity makes Asia ‘ripe for rivalry’, overwhelming US strategic preponderance should make the balance of power quite stable. Likewise, while much is made by more liberal International Relations theorists of the relative absence of strong international institutions and democracy in Asia, recent trends seem …
Cultures of Antimilitarism
The past in the present
In recent years a number of scholars and commentators have suggested that freed of the constraints placed upon it by the Cold War, Germany is likely to aspire to a more active, great power role. This article argues that such predictions overlook the extent to which German national security policy continues to be burdened by the lessons that its population drew from the Second World War and that make it profoundly difficult for any German leader t…
Other books in review
From Sword to Chrysanthemum
The past in the present
In recent years a number of scholars and commentators have suggested that freed of the constraints placed upon it by the Cold War, Germany is likely to aspire to a more active, great power role. This article argues that such predictions overlook the extent to which German national security policy continues to be burdened by the lessons that its population drew from the Second World War and that make it profoundly difficult for any German leader t…
From Sword to Chrysanthemum
Set for stability? Prospects for conflict and cooperation in East Asia
The Asian Pacific region is highly unstable, but not for the reasons usually assumed. Contrary to the assertions of Realists, who argue multipolarity makes Asia ‘ripe for rivalry’, overwhelming US strategic preponderance should make the balance of power quite stable. Likewise, while much is made by more liberal International Relations theorists of the relative absence of strong international institutions and democracy in Asia, recent trends seem …
A Perfectly Normal Abnormality
For decades Japan and the Federal Republic of Germany have gone to extraordinary lengths to cultivate as low a profile as possible on defense and national security policy matters. However, since the Gulf War, the Federal Republic has come under growing pressure from its allies to assume a greater international security role. Slowly, reluctantly it has acceded to these demands, albeit at the expense of considerable internal angst and turmoil. At t…
Japan in Asia
Roundtable Discussion of Jennifer Lind'S Sorry States
How can Japan put its past behind? Scholars, journalists, and activists frequently argue that Japan cannot solve its “history problem” unless it follows West Germany's lead in offering contrition for World War II violence. Into this debate, Jennifer Lind's Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics offers an original and provocative contribution. Lind argues that while countries should acknowledge past atrocities, frequent public apologies…
From Sword to Chrysanthemum
Other books in review
The past in the present
In recent years a number of scholars and commentators have suggested that freed of the constraints placed upon it by the Cold War, Germany is likely to aspire to a more active, great power role. This article argues that such predictions overlook the extent to which German national security policy continues to be burdened by the lessons that its population drew from the Second World War and that make it profoundly difficult for any German leader t…
Set for stability? Prospects for conflict and cooperation in East Asia
The Asian Pacific region is highly unstable, but not for the reasons usually assumed. Contrary to the assertions of Realists, who argue multipolarity makes Asia ‘ripe for rivalry’, overwhelming US strategic preponderance should make the balance of power quite stable. Likewise, while much is made by more liberal International Relations theorists of the relative absence of strong international institutions and democracy in Asia, recent trends seem …
Cultures of Antimilitarism
Beyond the Demonology of Power
Jeffrey Anderson, German Unification and the Union of Europe (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999)Thomas Banchoff, The German Problem Transformed: Institutions, Politics and Foreign Policy, 1945-1995 (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1999
A Perfectly Normal Abnormality
For decades Japan and the Federal Republic of Germany have gone to extraordinary lengths to cultivate as low a profile as possible on defense and national security policy matters. However, since the Gulf War, the Federal Republic has come under growing pressure from its allies to assume a greater international security role. Slowly, reluctantly it has acceded to these demands, albeit at the expense of considerable internal angst and turmoil. At t…
The Victim as Hero
Germany, Japan and the war on terror
The Construction of Antagonism
Over the past decade, Japan has moved toward greatly enhancing its regional security role within the framework of the U.S.-Japan security treaty. 1 Japans provision of logistical support to U.S. forces fighting in Afghanistan is one important, concrete reflection of this trend, and provides a welcome contrast to Japanese inaction during the Gulf campaign a decade earlier. 2 Japans willingness to assume such a role gready strengthens the U.S. abil…
Cultures of Antimilitarism
Both Japan and Germany have had long traditions of militarism, culminating in the two countries' aggressive actions in World War II. Today, after suffering crushing military defeats in 1945, both countries have again achieved positions of economic dominance and political influence. Yet neither seeks to regain its former military power. On the contrary, antimilitarism has become so deeply rooted in the Japanese and German national psyches that eve…
Political Order in Occupied Societies 1
The American occupations of Germany and Japan have many lessons to offer the United States today as it contemplates creating new political orders in Afghanistan and Iraq. The lessons that are to be drawn are not, however, the ones that are usually drawn by the current administration and others. First and foremost, a systematic comparison with the German and Japanese experiences clearly shows that the preconditions for democratization are not pres…
Japan in International Politics
Dealing with Difficult Pasts
Roundtable Discussion of Jennifer Lind'S Sorry States
How can Japan put its past behind? Scholars, journalists, and activists frequently argue that Japan cannot solve its “history problem” unless it follows West Germany's lead in offering contrition for World War II violence. Into this debate, Jennifer Lind's Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics offers an original and provocative contribution. Lind argues that while countries should acknowledge past atrocities, frequent public apologies…
Securing Japan
Journal Article Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia by Richard J. Samuels Get access Securing Japan: Tokyoʼs Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asiaby Richard J. Samuels. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2007. 277pp. $29.95. Thomas U. Berger Thomas U. Berger Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 124, Issue 1, Spring 2009…
The Search for Reconciliation
Japan in Asia
War, Guilt, and World Politics after World War II
When do states choose to adopt a penitent stance towards the past? When do they choose to offer apologies for historical misdeeds, offer compensation for their victims and incorporate the darker sides of history into their textbooks, public monuments and museums? When do they choose not to do so? And what are the political consequences of how states portray the past? This book pursues these questions by examining how governments in post-1945 Aust…
The triumph of hope over experience
Japan's economic power was one of the key sources of its influence in the Asian region. As the first Asian nation to successfully industrialize and modernize, Japan developed an enormous head start over other Asian nations, a gap that only began to narrow in the 1980s. Japan has long sought to promote the development of Asian regional institutions, beginning in the 1960s when it proposed the creation of a Pacific Asian Free Trade Area and took th…
Germany and Japan
Signifying the return of great power revisionism by all means, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has had a dramatic impact on the security and defense postures of Germany and Japan, two key US allies with strong anti-military foreign policy traditions based on peace constitutions. In analyzing the two countries’ far-reaching adjustments between 2022 and 2024, this article reflects on four major factors to explain the respective trajectories: threat pe…
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