Client State Pa

by Mccormack,Gavan

• ISBN13: 9781844671335
• ISBN10: 184467133X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

This long-awaited sequel to "In Theory" offers a series of interventions in the most urgent of contemporary debates in political and cultural theory. Ahmad offers a distinctive new analysis of imperialism in the globalized era, and of the new forms of resistance now emerging across the globe. Diverse in its thematics and rich in detail, >"In Our Time" is bound to generate as much debate as its predecessor.

Author Biography

Gavan McCormack is Emeritus Professor in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. His recent books include The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence; Japan’s Contested Constitution and Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe.

Table of Contents

Forever Twelve Years Old?	p. 1
The Dependent Superstate	p. 6
Dismantling the Japanese Model	p. 29
Japan in Bush's World	p. 55
Japan in Asia	p. 90
The constitution and the Fundamental Law of Education	p. 121
Okinawa: Disposal and Resistance	p. 155
Japan as a Nuclear State	p. 175
The Schizophrenic State?	p. 191
Notes	p. 205
Index	p. 241
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