総合政策学部教授 服部龍二著書の英訳が刊行されました

• 学術書: 182 ページ
• 出版社: Springer
• 言語: English
• ISBN: 9789811919015
• 発売日: 2022/4/30
• 出版社URL: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-1902-2

同書は『増補版 大平正芳 理念と外交』（文春学藝ライブラリー、2019年）に加筆のうえ、英訳したものです。

原型となった『大平正芳 理念と外交』（岩波書店、2014年）は、沈丁心・騰越訳／郭連友校『大平正芳的外交与理念』（北京：中央編譯出版社、2017年）として中国語訳されています。

内容紹介

This book analyzes Ohira's ideology, philosophy, and actions as a politician and a minister, based on primary sources from Japan and the USA, and makes a significant contribution to the field of Japanese political and diplomatic history. This book is the first critical biography to chart Masayoshi Ohira’s life and work, with a focus on his political philosophy, and how he sought to create a new order in the Asia-Pacific region, framing a plan for solidarity across the Pacific Rim. If a statesman is a politician who has made diplomacy their life's work, then Ohira can be regarded as the first Japanese statesman of the modern era. While this ambition remained unfulfilled, Ohira's involvement in foreign policy was long and intensive―and highly influential―on the region. One of only two postwar prime ministers to have served as foreign minister for two terms, he attempted to balance the pursuit of a new order in the Pacific Rim with Asian diplomacy and focused on cooperation with the USA without becoming overly reliant on it. With the new availability of original documents decades after his death, this book has become possible, enabling the author to systematically follow and record Ohira's diplomatic vision. Combining history, political philosophy, political science, and international relations, this book is of appeal to history scholars and students of Japan, as well as of the foreign relations of countries such as the USA, China, and Korea.