2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Reception of Anglo-American IR in Postwar Japan
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23830035
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
International relations
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido University of Education (2012)
Kyoto University (2011) |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | 日本の国際政治学 / 現実主義 / E・H・カー / ハンス・モーゲンソー / ハロルド・ニコルソン |
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| Research Abstract |
Scholars have often noted that the field of international studies in postwar Japan is merely a copy ("yu-nyu," or "import") of Anglo-American International Relations (IR). Against this background, the present study has investigated the details of this "import" by scrutinizing how Japanese intellectuals read the works of classical Anglo-American theorists such as E. H. Carr, Hans J. Morgenthau, and Harold Nicolson. It proved that at the center of those Japanese intellectuals' enterprise was the problem of how to face the crisis of modernity: grappling with this issue, they did not idolatrize the Anglo-American theories but they employed the insights of Anglo-American international studies only for articulating such concern.
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