Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination

• Main Author: Watanabe, Atsuko (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Critical Security Studies in the Global South
• Subjects: Security, International.; International relations.; Asia-Politics and government.; Comparative politics.; Diplomacy.; International Security Studies.; International Relations Theory.; Asian Politics.; Comparative Politics.; Foreign Policy.

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 kno...

Table of Contents:

• 1: Introduction: Standing in a Place, Imagining a Space
• 2: Contextualizing Traveling Theory
• 3: Inside of the Place of Interpretation
• 4: Analytical Framework
• 5: Identifying the Site of Creation
• 6: The Importation of Geopolitics into Japan
• 7: Japanese Geopolitics
• 8: Conclusion: A Successful Journey?.