, politics, and economics in Asia and beyond. Beginning his analysis with late 19th century and bringing it forward, Iriye argues that internal and bilateral dynamics of China and Japan have had sometimes subtle but nevertheless important implications for the configuration and behavior of the international system and that, in future, the cultural identities of both nation-states may have an impact on the evolution of the system.
Iriye identifies an interpenetration of politics, economics, and culture in modern east Asian history, with each interpenetrating element given more or less weight in each of t
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