Internationalizing the Pacific : the United States, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations in war and peace, 1919-1945

The Institute of Pacific Relations was a pioneering intellectual-political organization that shaped public knowledge and both elite and popular discourse throughout the Asia-Pacific region and beyond during the inter-war years. Inspired by Wilsonian internationalism after the 1919 formation of the League of Nations, it grew to become an international and national non-governmental think-tank providing expertise on Asia and the Pacific. This book investigates post-League Wilsonian internationalism with respect to two critical issues: the nation state and the conception of the Asia-Pacific region; both issues broach a range of contentious subjects including colonialism, orientalism, racism and war. Akami's study of the Institute of Pacific Relations offers insight into the formation of the dominant ideologies and institutions of regional and international politics in the Pacific during the inter-war years, and provides an interesting perspective on Japan's relations with countries including the USA and Australia. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of figures......Page 10 Foreword......Page 11 Acknowledgements......Page 14 A note on conventions......Page 16 List of abbreviations......Page 17 Introduction......Page 18 New agendas......Page 34 The Paris Peace Conference and post-League internationalism......Page 36 The Pacific Community......Page 48 The Pacific Community: an American vision of the regional order......Page 50 From vision to influence: founding the Institute of Pacific Relations......Page 63 The Japanese Council of the IPR in the 1920s......Page 76 The Pacific Community and the experiment of the IPR in 1925 7......Page 104 Transition......Page 142 From the Pacific to the Atlantic, 1928 32......Page 144 The American world order......Page 184 Carter's vision, 1933 5......Page 186 The IPR and the Sino-Japanese War, 1936 9......Page 217 Redefining the international order: the Pacific War and the IPR, 1940 5......Page 257 Postscript......Page 292 IPR conferences......Page 299 participants at the IPR conferences, 1925 47......Page 302 IPR office holders......Page 304 Archival sources......Page 307 Notes......Page 310 Select bibliography......Page 352 Index......Page 360 What were the dominant ideologies and institutions of international politics of the twentieth century?