Japan Enemy Or Ally?
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition, some fading. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact.
In the turbulent aftermath of World War II, the question of Japan's place in the new world order was not merely academic — it was urgent, volatile, and deeply consequential for the entire Pacific region. W. Macmahon Ball, one of Australia's most distinguished political scientists and a firsthand witness to the Allied occupation of Japan, presents a rigorous and unflinching analysis of Japan's political, social, and strategic transformation in Japan: Enemy or Ally? Drawing on his experience as the British Commonwealth Member on the Allied Council for Japan, Ball details the competing ambitions of the occupying powers and the profound tensions shaping Japan's postwar identity. Published under the auspices of the Australian Institute of International Affairs and the Institute of Pacific Relations, this work argues with compelling authority that the West's approach to Japan carried far-reaching and largely unexamined risks. Ball's prose is measured yet charged with urgency, reflecting a scholar who understood that the decisions made in Tokyo's occupation chambers would reverberate for generations. For anyone seeking to understand the geopolitical architecture of the modern Pacific, this landmark study raises questions that remain as pointed today as when they were first written.
Author: W. Macmahon Ball
Format: Hardback
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition, some fading. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact.
In the turbulent aftermath of World War II, the question of Japan's place in the new world order was not merely academic — it was urgent, volatile, and deeply consequential for the entire Pacific region. W. Macmahon Ball, one of Australia's most distinguished political scientists and a firsthand witness to the Allied occupation of Japan, presents a rigorous and unflinching analysis of Japan's political, social, and strategic transformation in Japan: Enemy or Ally? Drawing on his experience as the British Commonwealth Member on the Allied Council for Japan, Ball details the competing ambitions of the occupying powers and the profound tensions shaping Japan's postwar identity. Published under the auspices of the Australian Institute of International Affairs and the Institute of Pacific Relations, this work argues with compelling authority that the West's approach to Japan carried far-reaching and largely unexamined risks. Ball's prose is measured yet charged with urgency, reflecting a scholar who understood that the decisions made in Tokyo's occupation chambers would reverberate for generations. For anyone seeking to understand the geopolitical architecture of the modern Pacific, this landmark study raises questions that remain as pointed today as when they were first written.