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Book Review

Comparative/World

Tomoko Akami. Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations in War and Peace, 1919–45. (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations, number 3.) New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. xiv, 352. $90.00.

Tomoko Akami's study of the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) offers a new nongovernmental perspective on the history of trans-Pacific relations during the tumultuous interwar years. The author characterizes the IPR as "one of the very first non-governmental organizations in the Asia-Pacific that tried to institutionalize Wilsonian internationalism in the Asia-Pacific" (p. 2). Although her vague definition of Wilsonian internationalism in the introduction may not be satisfactory to those who are familiar with recent historiographical debate on the subject, Akami starts with the premise that a new world order based on the ideals of "Wilsonian internationalism" is the solution to international problems. However, her book is not so much about the IPR's accomplishment of Wilsonian internationalist goals. Instead, it offers a critical analysis of those people who participated in the IPR, mainly from the United States and Japan. The author calls them "post-League internationalists." Through careful examination of the origins and transformation of the IPR from 1919 to 1945, Akami successfully illuminates the limitations, as well as unfulfilled potential, of the vision of a Pacific community embraced by IPR members. . . .

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