Postwar U.S. Foreign Policy and the Third World: An Anthropological Perspective
Saturday, April 1st, 2006Postwar U.S. Foreign Policy and the Third World: An Anthropological Perspective
Tsuda College: Thursday, 1:00-2:30
English 3 Seminar, 2 credits
Hitotsubashi University: Thursday, 10:40-12:10
English Oral Skills 3, 2 credits
Description: We will examine the postwar era of Pax Americana from the perspective of the Third World majority and discuss issues of racism and ethnocentrism, militarism and human rights, and development and modernization. We will look at specific examples of U.S. military interventions and support for military regimes in the Third World and relate those examples to Japan’s role in the postwar geo-political picture. We will reassess the notion of “Third World development” based on Western cultural and socio-political assumptions, and examine the associated environmental destruction and cultural disruptions, focusing on the U.S.-Japan-Southeast Asia nexus. (more…)