Is Religious Violence Inevitable?

Profound Forces in the Making of Modern Japan

The structure, governance, institutions, principles, and norms of the international system have decisively influenced modern Japan’s international behavior and its domestic political structure. It is a common characteristic of the

Reading the New Era in Asia

Performing Identities in the Classroom

Teaching about intersecting, fluid and historically contingent identities has been taken up extensively within the sociology of race, class and gender and women’s studies. Oddly, the case of Jewish women

American Indian Population Recovery Following Smallpox Epidemics

Scholars generally agree that American Indian populations were reduced substantially following European contact by a variety of Old World diseases. However, scholarly attention has been devoted almost exclusively to ascertaining

White Americans, The New Minority?

Argues that in the United States the “white” racial category has expanded across time to include groups previously considered “non-white.” The role of blacks in this expansion is explored as

The Emergence of a Freedom of Information Movement?

Online rhetoric about the Internet’s potential to change society, the need to reform intellectual property laws, and the evils of censorship is becoming increasingly similar across sites. The push for

Narratives of Women Workers in South Korea’s Minju Union Movement of the 1970s

Recent studies have begun to problematize the ways an enduring master-narrative of the “minju” (democratic) labor movement was constructed over the 1970s and 1980s. By examining the voices of women

The Asian Financial Crisis

Presents an overview of the April 2003 issue of the ‘Cambridge Review of International Affairs.’ Collection of papers on the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998; Inclusion of political-cultural factors; Asian

A Decade After the Asian Financial Crisis

The China-driven rise of Asia to the center of the global political economy since the Asian financial crisis under systems of political economy manifestly different from those of the Washington