This manuscript explores the state's political use of the past and the function of history
education in political transition and foreign relations. Modern historical consciousness in …

For the past sixty years, the US government has assumed that Japan's security policies
would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is …

2. Jacobs and Shapiro,“Studying Substantive Democracy,” 12. 3. Sobel, The Impact of Public
Opinion. For a contrary view that emphasizes the influence of a “power elite” in US policy …

Ruling elites often make pernicious national myths for instrumental purposes, creating
divergent historical memories of the same events in different countries. But they tend to …

The US-Japan alliance has contributed significantly towards the development of the
Japanese security strategy. The Evolution of the US-Japan Alliance explores developments …

The legacy of the Second World War has been, like the war itself, an international
phenomenon. In both Europe and Asia, common questions of criminality, guilt, and …

Under what conditions do sets of two former adversary states with deeply rooted historical
animosity try to reconcile with each other? When they seek bilateral reconciliation, why are …

Is" political reconciliation" a new tool for peace-building and justice--in peace processes and
other complex social reconstruction efforts-after dictatorship or civil wars? Or is it just another …

Reconciliation is an important agenda for postwar countries. It plays a major role in
harmonizing bilateral and regional relations. Lin Ren compares reconciliations between the …

Prior to the late 1960s, German history textbooks lacked coverage of Poland and depicted
Germany's eastern neighbor with negative images. The 1970s and 1980s, however …