Beyond the Western Liberal Order: Yanaihara Tadao and Empire as Society by Ryoko Nakano

Beyond the Western Liberal Order explores the international thought of Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961), the most prominent Japanese social scientist of empire, population migration, and colonial policy during the 1920s and 1930s. Nakano provides a detailed analysis of Yanaiharas study of empire, including global migration, economic disparity and hierarchy, ethnic conflict, and regionalism. This comprehensive work concludes by demonstrating the contemporary relevance of Yanaiharas ideas to current debates and discussion in International Relations.

Ryoko Nakano is Assistant Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore. She has published on the history of Japanese political thought and norm diffusion in Japan in journals such as Millennium, International Relations, and Social Science Japan Journal.

She completed a DPhil in International Relations in 2000.