Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15100751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ciara Wirth (0000-0002-8150-9276, German Institute for Global and Area Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 145-148 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science Japan Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-1465 • E-ISSN: 1468-2680 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ssjj/jyab038 |
| OpenAlex | W3202405814 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
This volume addresses a glaring gap in scholarship on the international relations of Japan and East Asia. At a time when Japanese elites re-imagine their country as an ‘island nation’ (shimaguni) or ‘ocean state’ (kaiyō kokka) and successfully promote geopolitical constructs for anchoring Japan in the ‘Indo-Pacific’ region, a critical examination of spatial politics is in order. The continuing debate about non-Western International Relations (IR) adds further urgency to the mission to critically examine political theorising about space. The failure of the Japanese imperial project in 1945 made research about the spatial dimension of politics unattractive, if not inappropriate. This lacuna seriously limits understanding of Japanese foreign relations. After all, both Japanese politics and debates in the field of IR revolve around the cardinal question of Japan’s position—geographically and culturally—in the shifting global order. As Watanabe points out, Japan has long been playing an ambivalent role...
Ambivalence · Economics · Economy · Field (mathematics) · Foreign policy · Geopolitics · Global politics · International relations · Order (exchange) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science) · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |