Asia Pacific in the Age of Globalization [Hardcover]

The essays in this volume examine United States-East Asian relations in the framework of global history, incorporating fresh insights that have been offered by scholars on such topics as globalization, human rights, historical memory, and trans-cultural relations.Introduction; Robert David Johnson PART I: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONSHISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES 1. Asia Pacific Relations and the Globalization of the Environment; Nick Kapur 2. The Community of Continents; Kenneth Weisbrode 3. Power Across the Pacific; Frederick S. Calhoun 4. Trajectories of Nationalisms in East Asia; Walter A. Skya 5. Ike: The American Internationalist; Carl W. Reddel 6. Women Leaders in Diplomacy Across the Pacific; Michael A. Schneider 7. The Fragile Stability in the Asia-Pacific: Four Future Histories; Hugh DeSantis and James Przystup 8. Globalism's Conundrum; Anne R. Pierce 9. European Cooperation as a Questionable Model for Security in the Pacific Region; Ruud Janssens PART II: TRANS-PACIFIC HISTORY AND MEMORY 10. Human Rights: Across the Pacific Both Ways?; David Webster 11. The Role of Shared Experiences in Studying Sino-American Relations; Guoqi Xu 12. The East Asia Community and the United States; Izumi Hirobe 13. Japan's Transition from 'Greater East Asia' to a Trans-Pacific Order, 1931-1960; Urs Matthias Zachmann 14. Across the Pacific: Observations on the 21st Century U.S.-China Student Movement; Yelong Han 15. Alaska, Hawai'i, and the United States as a Pacific Nation; Robert David Johnson 16. Across the Pacific and Back to Vietnam: Transnational Legacies and Memories of the Vietnam War; Edward Miller 17. The 1957 Taiwan Riots: Cultural Politics in U.S.-Taiwan Relations in the 1950s; See Heng Teow and Yang Huei Pang PART III: CULTURE AND INTERNATIONALISM 18. Religion, Ideology, Culture and the Integration/Disintegration of the Pacific World; Evan Dawley 19. Emotions in Intercultural Relations; Barbara Keys 20. The Rise of Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-East Asia Relatil£²