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Author Anno, Tadashi, author

Title National identity and great-power status in Russia and Japan : non-Western challengers to the liberal international order / Tadashi Anno
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Published London : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Politics in Asia
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Notes on transliteration and personal names; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical framework; Constructivism and the rise of the non-Western great powers; A constructivist perspective on international order; Norms, values, and international hierarchy; Identity, status, and the search for self-esteem; National identity, national interest, and state behavior; International order, change, and attitudes toward international order; A summary of the theoretical framework -- putting all the pieces together
The case studies: comparing and contrasting Russian and Japanese experiencesOutline of the rest of the book; 3 Emergence and crisis of the liberal international order; The rise of the West and the globalization of the European states system; Civilization, progress, and liberalism -- cognitive-normative framework of the international order; The liberal international order: criticism and defense; The crisis of the international order, 1914-1945; 4 Russia: from development to revolution; Introduction; The origins of the modern Russian elite's worldview
Russia's advance in the Eurocentric international order, 1700-1800The polarization of Russian politics, 1800-1856; Russia in the liberal international order, 1856-1914; The rise of a revisionist movement, 1914-1950; Conclusions on Russia; 5 Japan: from development to expansion; The origins of the modern Japanese elite's worldview; Japan in the liberal international order, 1868-1918; The rise of a revisionist movement, 1918-1945; Conclusions on Japan; 6 Conclusion; Index
Summary Having suffered military defeat at the hands of advanced Western powers in the 1850s, Russia and Japan embarked upon a program of catch-up and modernization in the late-19th Century. While the two states sought in the main to replicate the successes of the advanced great powers of the West, the discourse on national identity among Russian and Japanese elite in this period evinced a considerable degree of ambivalence about Western dominance. With the onset of the crisis of power and legitimacy in the international order ushered in by the First World War, this ambivalence shifted towards more open revolt against Western dominance. The rise of communism in Russia and militarism in Japan were significantly shaped by their search for national distinctiveness and international status. This book is a comparative historical study of how the two "non-Western" great powers emerged as challengers to the prevailing international order in the interwar period, each seeking to establish an alternative order. Specifically, Anno examines the parallels and contrasts in the ways in which the Russian and Japanese elites sought to define the two countries' national identities, and how those definitions influenced the two countries' attitudes toward the prevailing order. At the intersection of international relations theory, comparative politics, and of historical sociology, this book offers an integrated perspective on the rise of challengers to the liberal international order in the early-twentieth century
Notes Previously issued in print: 2017
Subject Group identity -- Soviet Union -- History
Group identity -- Japan -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
bolshevism.
colonialism.
Hirohito.
Lenin.
militarism.
nationalism.
Stalin.
world war one.
world war two.
Group identity
Russia -- History -- 1801-1917.
Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936.
Japan -- History -- 1912-1945.
Japan
Russia
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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