Exporting American Individualism

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-116
Author(s):  
Olivier Zunz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Global Order ◽  
Success Story ◽  
American Individualism

The exporting of goods and capital has been Japan's much heralded success story of the postwar global order, much to the dismay of Americans who had been the prime builders of the Pax Americana on which the world's economy now rests. But despite today's headlines, U.S.-Japanese relations are not just about trade. This paper is about the exporting not of goods but of ideas and the connection between ideology and economic policy. I suggest that the Japanese's peculiar response to American ideas on individualism has helped them develop an ultimately successful economic alternative to American democracy: a non-individualistic capitalism.

On China’s Challenge to American Hegemony

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-334
Author(s):  
Tan Mingran
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Benefit ◽  
World Culture ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Global Order ◽  
The West ◽  
Chinese Tradition ◽  
Cultural Challenges ◽  
The Future ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
Catch Up

China’s rise has brought about various propositions about its role in the future global order. Based on a dozen influential scholars’ works, this essay first summarizes the supposed economic, political, and cultural challenges China will pose for America and then analyzes their sustainability. Like Martin Jacques, it insists that China will not be able to catch up with America using a resource-intensive model. And China cannot expand using this model through technological upgrades either, for, as a power-oriented culture, China cannot train disinterested scientists to be truly engaged in technological upgrades. Nevertheless, China has alarmed the West as it seeks a way to deal with its rise. My position is that, as China and America become more economically interdependent, the best way is to achieve mutual benefit through peaceful dialogue and establish a world culture that integrates Chinese tradition and American democracy, for maintaining American universalism and containing China by preserving u.s. military superiority are unsustainable.

scholarly journals Identity and Nation: Comparing Egyptian and Israeli Bedouin Policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Jessica Wisniewski
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Global Order ◽  
Colonial Policies

In many ways, the Egyptian and Israeli states fail to 'see' the Bedouin and therefore situate them as a group "in but not of the global order," an order where nations and states represent contingent identities and socio-political organizations. However, the Bedouin are not legally recognized as a distinct nation nor as indigenous peoples in neither Egypt nor Israel, and Egyptian Nationalism and Zionism reject the Bedouin as part of their nation, or 'imagined community.' This concept of nationalism strongly influences policy, and as a result, leads to the discrimination of the Bedouin through internal colonial policies, land seizure, suspension of human rights, and exclusionary economic policy. Despite Egypt and Israel's different political systems, the outcome for the Bedouin in both countries is remarkably similar.

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