The essays in this volume examine United States-East Asian relations in the framework of global history, incorporating fresh insights that have been offered by scholars on such topics as globalization, human rights, historical memory, and trans-cultural relations.

Frederick S. Calhoun, TSA, USA
Evan Dawley, Goucher College, USA
Hugh De Santis, George Washington University, USA
Yelong Han, Washington, D.C., USA
Izumi Hirobe, Meiji University, Japan
Ruud Janssens, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Nick Kapur, Harvard University, USA
Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne, Australia
Terry Lautz, Syracuse University, USA
Edward Miller, Dartmouth College, USA
Frank Ninkovich, St. John's University, USA
Yang Huei Pang, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Anne R. Pierce, independent, USA
James J. Przystup, National Defense University, USA
Brig. Gen. Carl W. Reddel, Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, USA
Steffen Rimner, Harvard University, USA
Jonathan Rosenberg, Hunter College, USA
Michael A. Schneider, Knox College, USA
Walter Skya, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
See Heng Teow, National University of Singapore
David Webster, University of British Columbia, Canada
Kenneth Weisbrode, Bilkent University, Turkey
Guoqi Xu, University of Hong Kong
Urs Matthias Zachmann, University of Edinburgh, UK

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 ?