HISTORY OF NIPPO-AMERICAN RELATIONS

The course aims at providing students with an in-depth knowledge of the political relations between Japan and the United States from the post-war era to the present, with a focus on the peace and security treaties.

The course aims at providing students with an in-depth knowledge of the political relations between Japan and the United States from the post-war era to the present, with a focus on the peace and security treaties.

A basic knowledge of contemporary history.

The political relations between Japan and the United States since 1945.

DOWER J.W., Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, Norton 1999.
TAKEMAE E., Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and its Legacy, Continuum 2002 (parti I e V).
R. CAROLI; D. BASOSI (eds), Legacies of the U.S. Occupation of Japan. Appraisals after Sixty Years , Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014
SCHALLER M., Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation, Oxford UP 1997.
Glenn HOOK et al. (eds), Japan?s International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security, Routledge 2005 (parti I, II, V e VI).
Rosa CAROLI, Il mito dell'omogeneita giapponese: storia di Okinawa, Franco Angeli 1999 (capitoli 8-11 e 14).
Carol GLUCK, ?Entangling Illusions?Japanese and American Views of the Occupation? in W.I. Cohen (ed.), New Frontiers in American-East Asian Relations, Columbia University Press, 1983, pp. 169-236.
Yukiko KOSHIRO, Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan, Columbia UP 1999 (pp. 1-48).

Written and oral examination.
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Class lectures, seminars, online sources, students' presentations.

Italian

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "International cooperation" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development