Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; A note on conventions; List of abbreviations; Introduction; New agendas; The Paris Peace Conference and post-League internationalism; The Pacific Community: an American vision of the regional order; From vision to influence: founding the Institute of Pacific Relations; The Japanese Council of the IPR in the 1920s; The Pacific Community and the experiment of the IPR in 1925 7; Transition; From the Pacific to the Atlantic, 1928 32; The American world order; Carter's vision, 1933 5
The IPR and the Sino-Japanese War, 1936 9Redefining the international order: the Pacific War and the IPR, 1940 5; Postscript; IPR conferences; participants at the IPR conferences, 1925 47; IPR office holders; Archival sources; Notes; Select bibliography; Index
Summary
Akami's study of the Institute of Pacific Relations offers insight into the formation of the dominant ideologies and institutions of regional and international politics in the Pacific during the inter-war years
