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Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations in War and Peace, 1919-45 (review)

Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations... Reviews  reviews Tomoko Akami. Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations in War and Peace, ‒. London and New York: Routledge, . xvi,  pp. Hardcover,  ‒‒ ‒. With this extensively researched, well documented, and exquisitely presented volume, Tomoko Akami—a historian at the Australian National University—has produced a vital resource for students of international affairs. Those with an in- terest in nongovernmental organizations and Asia-Pacific regionalism will want to pay particular attention, with Akira Iriye’s useful foreword being of special ad- ditional interest in this regard. Akami’s impressive use of wide-ranging archival materials dealing with American and Japanese participation in the Institute of Pa- cific Relations (IPR) makes her analysis of even greater importance, as do her constant efforts to examine the class and gender biases caused by the elite male- ness of the IPR, the concept of “non-state agency” in international affairs, the in- teraction between national delegations and state governments, the role of nationalism, the way regional initiatives can take on international aims, and the Institute’s own brand of Orientalism. Readers of this journal will want to review Akami’s comments on the rela- tionship between Japan and China in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations in War and Peace, 1919-45 (review)

Woods, Lawrence Timothy,
China Review International , Volume 9 (2) – Oct 14, 2003
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Reviews  reviews Tomoko Akami. Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations in War and Peace, ‒. London and New York: Routledge, . xvi,  pp. Hardcover,  ‒‒ ‒. With this extensively researched, well documented, and exquisitely presented volume, Tomoko Akami—a historian at the Australian National University—has produced a vital resource for students of international affairs. Those with an in- terest in nongovernmental organizations and Asia-Pacific regionalism will want to pay particular attention, with Akira Iriye’s useful foreword being of special ad- ditional interest in this regard. Akami’s impressive use of wide-ranging archival materials dealing with American and Japanese participation in the Institute of Pa- cific Relations (IPR) makes her analysis of even greater importance, as do her constant efforts to examine the class and gender biases caused by the elite male- ness of the IPR, the concept of “non-state agency” in international affairs, the in- teraction between national delegations and state governments, the role of nationalism, the way regional initiatives can take on international aims, and the Institute’s own brand of Orientalism. Readers of this journal will want to review Akami’s comments on the rela- tionship between Japan and China in

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