Fire on the Rim The Cultural Dynamics of East/West Power Politics

by Thornton, William H.; Turner, Bryan

• ISBN13: 9780742517066
• ISBN10: 0742517063
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Fire on the Rim combines an idealist's call for social justice, cultural difference, and environmental sustainability with a realist's recognition of the continuing need for balance of power security relations around the Pacific Rim. Although this melding of idealist and realist elements is sure to meet opposition on the Right and Left alike, the author's call for moral realism is a vital step toward an Asia policy fit for the twenty-first century. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author Biography

William H. Thornton is professor of literary and cultural theory at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: The Geopolitics of "Asian Values"	p. 1
The Postmodernization of Asian Values	p. 29
Japanese Postmodernism and the New "Japan Problem"	p. 55
Reactionary Globalization: Local, Regional, and Global Implications of the New "Japan Problem"	p. 77
The "Other" Korea: An Oppositional Postmodernism	p. 103
Korea and the Asian Values Debate	p. 117
Selling Democratic Teleology: China as Reverse Domino	p. 133
Getting Past Huntington and Fukuyama: Cultural Realism in East/West Power Politics	p. 153
Back to Basics: Human Rights and Power Politics in the New Moral Realism	p. 171
Conclusion: A Concert of "Others"	p. 193
Index	p. 205
About the Author	p. 217
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