Author biographies -- Introduction / Robert David Johnson -- PART I. GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS : HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES -- 1. Asia Pacific Relations and the Globalization of the Environment / Nick Kapur -- 2. The Community of Continents / Kenneth Weisbrode -- 3. Power Across the Pacific / Frederick S. Calhoun -- 4. Trajectories of Nationalisms in East Asia / Walter A. Skya -- 5. Ike : The American Internationalist / Carl W. Reddel -- 6. Women Leaders in Diplomacy Across the Pacific / Michael A. Schneider -- 7. The Fragile Stability in the Asia-Pacific : Four Future Histories / Hugh DeSantis and James Przystup -- 8. Globalism's Conundrum / Anne R. Pierce -- 9. European Cooperation as a Questionable Model for Security in the Pacific Region / Ruud Janssens -- PART II. TRANS-PACIFIC HISTORY AND MEMORY -- 10. Human Rights : Across the Pacific Both Ways? / David Webster -- 11. The Role of Shared Experiences in Studying Sino-American Relations / Guoqi Xu -- 12. The East Asia Community and the United States / Izumi Hirobe -- 13. Japan's Transition from "Greater East Asia" to a Trans-Pacific Order, 1931-1960 / Urs Matthias Zachmann -- 14. Across the Pacific : Observations on the 21st Century U.S.-China Student Movement / Yelong Han -- 15. Alaska, Hawai'i, and the United States as a Pacific Nation / Robert David Johnson -- 16. Across the Pacific and Back to Vietnam : Transnational Legacies and Memories of the Vietnam War / Edward Miller -- 17. The 1957 Taiwan Riots : Cultural Politics in U.S.-Taiwan Relations in the 1950s / See Heng Teow and Yang Huei Pang -- PART III. CULTURE AND INTERNATIONALISM -- 18. Religion, Ideology, Culture and the Integration/Disintegration of the Pacific World / Evan Dawley -- 19. Emotions in Intercultural Relations / Barbara Keys -- 20. The Rise of Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-East Asia Relations / Terry Lautz -- 21. Beyond the Call of Duty : Cosmopolitan Education and the Origins of Asian-American Women's Medicine / Steffen Rimner -- 22. Leningrad Comes to America : The 1942 American Premiere of the Shostakovich Seventh Symphony / Jonathan Rosenberg -- 23. Culture and Anti-Imperialism / Frank Ninkovich