Beyond the Western Liberal Order: Yanaihara Tadao and Empire as Society

The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought
Ryoko Nakano
ISBN: 978-1-137-29050-2, ISBN10: 1-137-29050-1,
5.500 x 8.500 inches, 216 pages

Beyond the Western Liberal Order explores the international thought of Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961), the most prominent Japanese social scientist of empire, population migration, and colonial policy during the 1920s and 1930s. Nakano provides a detailed analysis of Yanaihara’s study of empire, including global migration, economic disparity and hierarchy, ethnic conflict, and regionalism. This comprehensive work concludes by demonstrating the contemporary relevance of Yanaihara’s ideas to current debates and discussion in International Relations.

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Table of Contents:

Introduction
What is Society?
A World of Migration
Development and Dependency
Autonomy under Imperial Rule
Asianism vs. Internationalism?
Conclusion

Biographical Note:

Ryoko Nakano is Assistant Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies
at the National University of Singapore. She has published on the history
of Japanese political thought and norm diffusion in Japan in journals such
as Millennium, International Relations, and Social Science Japan Journal.