2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Inter-war International Relations and the Limitation of Nationalism
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23730176
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
International relations
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University of Commerce & Business |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | ナショナリズム / 戦間期 / 国際関係論 / イギリス |
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| Research Abstract |
This research explores how the theories and concepts of Nationalism were incorporated into the newly-introduced study of International Relations (IR) in Britain, arguing that the scholars' theoretical attempt to limit the hostility of nationalism eventually surrendered to the empirical reality of international politics during the inter-war period. The focus is placed on a discussion and report made by a research group at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, also known as Chatham House, whose official aim was to provide a "scientific examination" of contemporary developments of nationalism that had dominated Europe since the end of the nineteenth century and believed to "threaten the very future of civilization".
The research outcome would defend a historically sensitive approach to the labelling of international theories, avoiding the reductionism of a broader political and social debate to an ahistorical realism- utopianism dichotomy of the First Great Debate.
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