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The End of Pax Americana - The Loss of Empire and Hikikomori Nationalism (Paperback)
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The End of Pax Americana - The Loss of Empire and Hikikomori Nationalism (Paperback)
Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
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In The End of Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai focuses on U.S. hegemony's
long history in East Asia and the effects of its decline on
contemporary conceptions of internationality. Engaging with themes
of nationality in conjunction with internationality, the
civilizational construction of differences between East and West,
and empire and decolonization, Sakai focuses on the formation of a
nationalism of hikikomori, or "reclusive withdrawal"-Japan's
increasingly inward-looking tendency since the late 1990s, named
for the phenomenon of the nation's young people sequestering
themselves from public life. Sakai argues that the exhaustion of
Pax Americana and the post--World War II international order-under
which Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and China experienced rapid
modernization through consumer capitalism and a media
revolution-signals neither the "decline of the West" nor the rise
of the East, but, rather a dislocation and decentering of European
and North American political, economic, diplomatic, and
intellectual influence. This decentering is symbolized by the sense
of the loss of old colonial empires such as those of Japan,
Britain, and the United States.
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