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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP REMINDER The Rise & Demise of Asian World Supremacy:
Power, Effects and Identities, Workshop, Stockholm, Aug 28-30 2013
> H-ASIA
> December 8, 2012
>
> Call for papers REMINDER: The Rise & Demise of Asian World Supremacy:
> Power, Effects and Identities, Workshop, Swedish Institute of
> International Affairs, Stockholm, August 28-30. 2013
>
>
> (x-post H-Japan)
> DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: 14 DECEMBER 2012.
> ********************************************************************
> From: Linus Hagstrom <
Linus.Hagstrom@ui.se>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> I would hereby like to solicit paper proposals for the workshop "The Rise
> and Demise of Asian World Supremacy: Power, Effects and Identities", which
> will take place as part of a conference to celebrate the 75th anniversary
> of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs ("Utrikespolitiska
> institutet", or UI for short), 28-30 August 2013. The conference will
> start with a reception on the evening of August 28, continue with parallel
> research workshops and dinner on the 29th, and end on the 30th with a full
> day of roundtables, a high level seminar, and a banquet.
>
> The larger conference will address whether, how, why and with what
> consequences a power shift is taking place in the world. The aim is to dig
> deeper into diverse views and perspectives on this topic, and contribute
> papers and debates on specific geographical and thematic dimensions
> related to it, in particular the question how global power shift is
> experienced, perceived, and dealt with in Africa, Europe, East Asia, North
> America, and Russia. These themes also largely reflect the research
> programs at our institute.
>
> This e-mail is a call for papers for the workshop focused on about East
> Asia. According to conventional wisdom, East Asia is currently
> experiencing a power shift away from Japan and the USA to the "rising
> China". Given the actors involved, East Asia is also commonly seen as the
> epicentre of a global power shift.
>
> This is not the first time East Asia has figured in similar projections.
> In the mid-1980s, observers similarly predicted the demise of "Pax
> Americana" and the coming of "Pax Nipponica". They did so in light of the
> relative economic demise of the USA and the growing economic strength of
> Japan. Since economic capability was believed to translate
> unproblematically into political and military power, and since leading
> international relations theories hypothesise powers to "balance" against
> each other, some even predicted a "coming war" between the USA and Japan.
> While predictions of "Pax Nipponica" are long forgotten, astoundingly
> similar narratives are now weaved around the possible coming of a "Pax
> Sinica".
>
> But what happened to the idea that Japan would become as the world's
> greatest power? Were the projections simply wrong? Did Japan ever stand a
> realistic chance, or even harbour aspirations of replacing the Soviet
> Union as lead "competitor" or "challenger" in a bipolar world order? Or
> could "Japan's rise" be more fruitfully interpreted as a kind of identity
> politics, which served one purpose for the Japanese Self and quite another
> for the Western actors who conjured up Japan as an external threat? And
> did not Japan actually become dominant with regards to "soft power" rather
> than "hard power"? In short, what can we learn about the phenomenon of
> "rise" and "demise" from the case of Japan?
>
> International relations scholarship tends to gauge the "rise" and "demise"
> of states based on their possession of capability, and power shifts are
> analysed accordingly. The aim of this workshop is to move beyond this
> rather simplistic notion by addressing two other crucial, but strangely
> neglected, aspects of power:
>
> - Since power is most generally defined as the "capacity to produce
> effects", it will first ponder what effects on the world Japan
> had during its alleged "rise", and what effects it has now that
> it is commonly portrayed as in "decline". One might similarly ask
> what effects on the world China has today, compared with the
> effects it had one, two or three decades ago. Moreover, what is
> the correlation between the possession of capability and the
> production of effects in the Japanese and Chinese cases?
>
> - A rather different "power question" is what relationship there is
> between the possession of capability and the production of
> effects on the one hand, and the construction of "greatpowerness"
> or "superpowerness" on the other, both within a country and
> outside of it. Namely, how have Japan, China and other states
> been appraised in terms of power, and with what implications for
> the construction of identities?
>
> The answers to these questions will shed light on the "rise" and "demise"
> of great powers and superpowers as a phenomenon, and thus provide the
> basis for our assessment of the probability and nature of the coming of
> "Pax Sinica", as well as on Japan's alleged "decline."
>
> Confirmed workshop participants include Professor Steve Chan (University
> of Colorado,
http://socsci.colorado.edu/~chans/) and Professor Oguma Eiji
> (Keio University,
http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~oguma/top.html).
>
> Between 5 and 10 more papers will be solicited through this call for
> papers. Papers should address one or more of the following topics: (1) the
> larger topic of "power shift" in East Asia; (2) power as effects, e.g.
> "soft power"; or (3) discursive power and identities, or "superpowerness".
>
> The workshop will result in a proposal for one or two special issues with
> peer-reviewed journals, or an edited volume with an international
> publisher.
>
> DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: 14 DECEMBER 2012.
>
> N.B. The organizers will not cover travel and accommodation costs for
> participants. However, there is no conference fee and all lunches and
> dinners will be free of charge.
>
> I'm happy to answer questions or offer clarifications.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Linus Hagstrom
>
>
>
> Dr Linus Hagstrom
> Senior Research Fellow, Swedish Institute of International Affairs
> Box 27 035, 102 51 Stockholm, Sweden
> Tel: +46-8-51176839 . Fax: +46-8-51176899 . E-mail:
hagstrom@ui.se
> Internet:
http://www.linushagstrom.org/ or
http://www.ui.se/
>
> My contributions to East Asia Forum
>
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/author/linushagstrom
>
> New article on the Senkaku/Diaoyu Issue and power shift in East Asia:
>
http://cjip.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/pos011?ijkey=eMaaBIBqL28rza2&keytype=ref
>
> New article on Japan's China policy:
>
http://journals.rienner.com/doi/abs/10.5555/1598-2408-12.2.215?journalCode=jeas
>
> New book review on Japan's policy towards South Korea:
>
http://irap.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/lcs011?ijkey=rq8ec859BnMzZSn&keytype=ref
>
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