Review: Asia: Pacific Passage
| Published date | 01 September 1998 |
| Date | 01 September 1998 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070209805300325 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
high
costs
of
the
Korean
experience
cold
war
in Asia
and
of
the
fact
that
remain
evident
in
the
country's
bilateral
rather
than
multilateral
social
divisions,
relations
defined
the
relationships
of
individual
nations
with
the
Unit-
NETWORK
POWER
ed States.
Japan
and
Asia
Despite
the
book's
outwardly
Edited
by Peter
J.
Katzenstein
and
comparative framework
many
of
Takashi Shiraishi the
articles
are
not
explicitly com-
Ithaca
NY:
Cornell
University
Press,
parative,
and
the
comparisons
1997,
xvii,
399pp,
US$59.95
cloth,
between
Germany
and
Japan
are
US$22.50
paper
presented
largely
in
the
conclusion.
This
does
not
detract from the
stim-
Network
Power
is a
product
of
work-
ulating
diversity
of
the
essays,
worth
shops
hosted
in
1994
and
1995
by
reading
by
anyone
interested
in
the
Cornell
University's
Southeast
Asia
historical
and
contemporary dimen-
Program
and
a
companion
volume
sions
of
Japan's
relationship
with
to
Tamed
Power."
Germany
in
Asia.
Europe.
Both
volumes
set
out to
explore
the
role
that
regions
play
in
PACIFIC
PASSAGE
global
politics.
One
of
the
strengths
The
study
of
American-East
Asian
of
the
collection
is
its
interdiscipli-
relations
on
the
eve
of
the
twenty-
nary
approach:
anthropologists,
his-
first
century
torians,
political scientists,
and
Edited
by
Warren
I.
Cohen
international
relations
scholars
con-
New
York:
Columbia
University
Press,
tribute
articles
ranging
from
Japan's
1996,
407pp,
US$40.00
cloth,
position
in
the
China-centred
east
US$18.00
paper
Asian
world order
to
Japan's
con-
temporary
relations
with
Southeast
Written
by
international
experts
in
Asia
and
the
impact
Japanese
their
fields,
this
collection encom-
comics
and
television
animation
passes
both traditional
diplomatic
have
had
on
the
region.
history
and
the
cutting
edge
of
The
editors
argue
that
compared
recent
methodologies.
Particularly
to Europe's
exclusive
and
formal
welcome
is
the
re-integration
of
the
institutionally
based
integration,
themes
of
race
and
the
Asian
immi-
Asian
regionalism
is
informal
and
gration
experience
into
the
realm
of
inclusive,
and
will
likely
retain
its
international
history.
As
Stanford
openness
in
the
future.
The
differ-
historian
Gordon
Chang
implies,
ence
between
the
two
regions
is
a
policy
issues
dealing
with
Asian
consequence
of
America's
role
in
the
immigration
are
intimately
linked
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1998
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