Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination

by Atsuko Watanabe

This book is the first attempt to comprehensively introduce Japanese geopolitics. Europe's role in disseminating knowledge globally to shape the world according to its standards is an unchallenged premise in world politics. In this story, Japan is regarded as an enthusiastic importer of the knowledge. The book challenges this ground by examining how European geopolitics, the theory of the modern state, traveled to Japan in the first half of the last...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030043983
• ISBN13: 9783030043988
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"