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Cultural International:'sm and World Order. By Akira Iriye. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xiv, 212 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8018-5457-1.)
In this short book, reworked from lectures delivered in 1988, Akira Iriye sketches in broad strokes many of the themes with which his work has long been associated. To Iriye, sovereign nations and governments need not provide the framework for studying international interactions. Rather, he argues, it is individuals and groups of people working in cross-national activities outside of governments who have significantly altered the world system. It is this long tradition of what he calls "cultural internationalism" that he believes constitutes a significant hope for future peace and understanding.
This book charts a historical framework for the emergence of "cultural internationalism."...