From International History to Transnational History

The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/mershon08/iriye.mp3Akira Iriye (Ph.D., Harvard) is Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University. Professor Iriye has written widely on American diplomatic history and Japanese- American relations. Among those works are Pacific Estrangement: Japanese and American Expansion, 1897-1911 (1972); Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941- 1945 (1981). He spoke on transnational history.Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security StudiesEvent webpag

The United States and Japan in the Postwar World

A major phenomenon in the post-World War II world is the rise of Japan as a leading international economic and industrial power. This advance began with American aid in rebuilding the nation after the war, but it has now seen Japan rival and even outstrip the United States on several fronts. The relations between the two powers and the impact that they have on economic and political factors during the postwar years are the focus of this important book. The editors, Akira Iriye and Warren I. Cohen, themselves noted authorities on Asian affairs, have gathered here contributions from a distinguished group of American and Japanese scholars. The resulting collection represents a unique blend of viewpoints from each side of the American-Japanese relationship. Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University. Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. A rich volume that will be of interest not only to specialists, but also especially to government officials and the business and financial community. —History A useful guide to an understanding of the strains and stresses between the United States and Japan as the two countries move toward the end of the twentieth century. —Journal of American Historyhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_political_science_international_relations/1022/thumbnail.jp

Observing America: what mass-observation reveals about British views of the USA

Since its foundation in 1937, the social research organisation Mass-Observation has systematically documented the opinions of a British public experiencing profound societal change. This includes the most extensive data available on grassroots attitudes towards the USA, from the outbreak of the Second World War to the final phase of the Cold War. Most of the scholarship on Anglo-American relations focuses on the political and diplomatic elites of Britain and the USA. The extent to which their interaction reflected and reinforced public opinion is seldom considered. This article uses the Mass-Observation archive to situate elite interaction within the broader context of public opinion. In so doing, it assesses the extent to which British political leaders have in their dealings with the USA represented the views of the electorate they serve

Bush the transnationalist: a reappraisal of the unilateralist impulse in US foreign policy, 2001-2009

This article challenges the common characterisation of George W. Bush’s foreign policy as “unilateral.” It argues that the Bush administration developed a new post-9/11 understanding of terrorism as a transnational, networked phenomenon shaped by the forces of globalisation. This led to a new strategic emphasis on bi- and multilateral security co-operation and counterterrorism operations, especially outside of Afghanistan and Iraq, driven by the perceived need to counter a transnational security challenge present in multiple locations. This (flawed) attempt to engage with transnational security challenges supplemented the existing internationalist pillar of the Bush administration’s foreign policy. Highlighting the transnational realm of international relations and the ways in which the Bush administration was able to co-opt other states to tackle perceived transnational challenges also shows the high importance the administration attached to concerted action even as it frequented eschewed institutional multilateralism

Réflexions sur l’histoire globale et transnationale

Akira Iriye, qui a dirigé avec Pierre-Yves Saunier le Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, paru en 2009, retrace comment, au fil du XXe siècle et particulièrement depuis les années 1990, la communauté historienne s’est de plus en plus intéressée au phénomène de la mondialisation et à l’histoire globale et transnationale. Il montre ce qu’une approche globale, transnationale, des phénomènes historiques apporte de plus qu’une simple approche nationale et formule des hypothèses sur l’avenir de notre société mondialisée

Excerpt from Global and Transnational History: The Past, Present, and Future

Excerpted from Akira Iriye, Global and Transnational History: The Past, Present, and Future (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).Reprinted with permission from Palgrave Macmillan