{"product_id":"the-end-of-pax-americana-9781478014911","title":"The End of Pax Americana","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe End of Pax Americana\u003c\/i\u003e, Naoki Sakai focuses on U.S. hegemony''s long history in East Asia and the effects of its decline on contemporary conceptions of internationality. Engaging with themes of nationality in conjunction with internationality, the civilizational construction of differences between East and West, and empire and decolonization, Sakai focuses on the formation of a nationalism of hikikomori, or “reclusive withdrawal”—Japan’s increasingly inward-looking tendency since the late 1990s, named for the phenomenon of the nation’s young people sequestering themselves from public life. Sakai argues that the exhaustion of Pax Americana and the post--World War II international order—under which Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and China experienced rapid modernization through consumer capitalism and a media revolution—signals neither the “decline of the West” nor the rise of the East, but, rather a dislocation and decen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a masterful and brilliant account of the rise and fall of the Pax Americana from the perspective of Japan and northeast Asia. Working through and beyond the pitfalls and shortcomings of area studies, Naoki Sakai opens new and often unexpected angles on racism, nationalism, and the nation form in a time of transition. There is much to learn from this book, on Japan and northeast Asia, but more generally on the world we live in.” -- Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna\u003cbr\u003e“Ranging widely across texts, languages, times (conventionally understood as the premodern and the modern), and places (typically called ‘Asia’ and ‘the West’), these essays interrogate the bordering practices of knowledge production about areas while demonstrating how rethinking modernity through Japan may enable ethically engaged and concretely situated critiques of nationalism, imperialism, racism, sexism, violence, humanism, and more across the globe. A singular and timely achievement from one of our most learned, theoretically rigorous, and profound thinkers.” -- Takashi Fujitani, author of * Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II *\u003cbr\u003e\"For those who want to push area studies and Japan studies to their limits and to finally pose real problems instead of offering paltry solutions in the world of ideology, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Pax Americana\u003c\/i\u003e can inspire us to theorize new problems for research in the humanities and the social sciences that not only interpret the reality of our present conjuncture but that seek to change it.\" -- Ken C. Kawashima * Journal of Japanese Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"True to the critical theory tradition, the book is sure to provoke many thoughts, especially regarding what roles Japan might play as the US-China rivalry continues to intensify.\" -- Yuji Maeda * Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. History and Responsibility: Debates over \u003ci\u003eThe Showa History\u003c\/i\u003e  37\u003cbr\u003e 2. From Relational Identity to Specific Identity: On Equality and Nationality  57\u003cbr\u003e 3. Asian Theory and European Humanity: On the Question of Anthropological Difference  91\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"You Asians\": On the Historical Role of the Binary of the West and Asia  129\u003cbr\u003e 5. Addressing the Multitude of Foreigners, Echoing Foucault \/ Naoki Sakai and John Solomon  159\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Loss of Empire and Inward-Looking Society  183\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Area Studies and Transpacific Complicity  183\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Empire Under Subcontract  197\u003cbr\u003e Part 3: Inward-Looking Society  247\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Shame and Decolonization  269\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1. Memorandum on Policy towards Japan \/ Edwin O. Reischauer  287\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2. Statement on Racism Prepared by William Haver and Naoki Sakai, March 20, 1987, in Chicago \/ William Haver and Naoki Sakai  291\u003cbr\u003e Notes  295\u003cbr\u003e References  329\u003cbr\u003e Index  341","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408997261655,"sku":"9781478014911","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478014911.jpg?v=1730505021","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-end-of-pax-americana-9781478014911","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}