HISTORY OF NIPPO-AMERICAN RELATIONS

The course aims at providing students with an in-depth knowledge of the political relations between Japan and the United States from the post-war era to the present, with a focus on the peace and security treaties.

The course aims at providing students with an in-depth knowledge of the political relations between Japan and the United States from the post-war era to the present, with a focus on the peace and security treaties.

A basic knowledge of contemporary history.

The political relations between Japan and the United States from the post-war era to the present, with a focus on the peace and security treaties.

DOWER J.W., Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, Norton 1999.
TAKEMAE E., Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and its Legacy, Continuum 2002.
R. CAROLI; D. BASOSI (eds), Legacies of the U.S. Occupation of Japan. Appraisals after Sixty Years , Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014
SCHALLER M., Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation, Oxford UP 1997.
Glenn HOOK et al. (eds), Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security, Routledge 2005.
Rosa CAROLI, Il mito dell'omogeneita giapponese: storia di Okinawa, Franco Angeli 1999 (capitoli 8-11 e 14).
Carol GLUCK, 'Entangling Illusions?Japanese and American Views of the Occupation?', in W.I. Cohen (ed.), New Frontiers in American-East Asian Relations, Columbia University Press, 1983, pp. 169-236.
Yukiko KOSHIRO, Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan, Columbia UP 1999.

Written and oral examination.
For further details international students can contact the professor by email (caroli@unive.it).

Classes in presence and streaming on zoom; online sources; students' presentations.

Italian

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "International cooperation" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development