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National Identity and Great-Power Status in Russia and Japan Non-Western Challengers to the Liberal International Order

By Tadashi Anno Copyright 2019
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Having suffered military defeat at the hands of advanced Western powers in the 1850s, Russia and Japan embarked upon a program of catch-up and modernization in the late-19 th Century. While the two states sought in the main to replicate the successes of the advanced great powers of the West, the discourse on national identity among Russian and Japanese elite in this period evinced a considerable... Read more

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Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 Theoretical Framework

3 The Emergence and the Crisis of Liberal International Order

4 Russia – From Development to Revolution

5 Japan – From Development to Expansion

6 Conclusion

Index

Biography

Tadashi Anno is Associate Professor of Political Science at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan