More than a ‘moment
Woodrow Wilson and the foundations of twentieth century Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6277797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frederick R Dickinson (0000-0003-1138-9827, California University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 587-599 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japanese Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-1099 • E-ISSN: 1474-0060 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s146810991800035x |
| OpenAlex | W2900864621 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
Woodrow Wilson's name remains forever entwined with the Paris Peace Conference and efforts to transform geopolitics after 1918. Despite recent emphases on the power of this so-called ‘Wilsonian Moment,’ initiatives by the American president remain controversial, and his principal global legacy has come to be defined as the rise of nationalism in the developing world. In the historiography of modern Japan, Wilson and the Paris Conference have long been identified less as opportunities than as challenges, embodied unmistakably in Prince Konoe Fumimaro's 1918 condemnation of the conference and the proposed League of Nations as beneficial only to the USA and Britain. Reading back from 1931, historians of modern Japan have located in the Versailles settlement seeds of an epic new expansionary effort from the Manchurian Incident to the destruction of Imperial Japan. This paper, by contrast, analyzes the interwar years on their own terms and, in so doing, locates the structural foundations of a dramatic Japanese national departure. Wilson is more than a ‘moment’ in interwar Japan. Embraced at the very moment that a largely agricultural and regional nineteenth-century Japan becomes a twentieth-century industrial state and world power, it is potent enough to withstand the illiberal tide of the 1930s and 40s to blossom again after the Second World War
China · Economic history · Geopolitics · Historiography · Interwar period · League · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · State (computer science · World War II · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
Paris 1919
The Wilsonian Moment
Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism
Progressivism and the Open Door
World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919–1930
Japan and the League of Nations
Japan and the League of Nations
Japanese-German Peace Negotiations during World War I
The Clash
Wilson and China
Between the Old Diplomacy and the New, 1918-1922
The evolution of British diplomatic strategy for the Washington conference
Japan, Race, and Equality
Power in the Pacific. The Origins of Naval Arms Limitation, 1914-22
Far Eastern Policy of the United States
Imagining Woodrow Wilson in Asia
Toward a Global Perspective of the Great War
Konoe Fumimaro. A Political Biography
Woodrow Wilson and the Far East. The Diplomacy of the Shantung Question
Alliance in Decline. A Study in Anglo-Japanese Relations 1908-23
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |