This book introduces the political thought of Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961), the most prominent Japanese social scientist working on empire, population migration and colonial policy, and uses it as a platform which to examine the global challenges faced by the U.S. hegemonic world order today, or what is often described as the Western liberal order.

Autorentext
RYOKO NAKANO is Assistant Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore. She has published on the history of Japanese political thought and norm diffusion in Japan in journals such as Millennium, International Relations, and Social Science Japan Journal.

Inhalt
Introduction What is Society? A World of Migration Development and Dependency Autonomy under Imperial Rule Asianism vs. Internationalism? Conclusion