The Reception of Anglo-American IR in Postwar Japan

学者们经常指出，战后日本的国际研究领域仅仅是英美国际关系（IR）的复制品（“yu-nyu”或“进口”）。在此背景下，本研究通过仔细研究日本知识分子如何阅读诸如E. H.卡尔、汉斯J.摩根索和哈罗德·尼科尔森等英美古典理论家的作品，调查了这种“输入”的细节。事实证明，日本知识分子事业的核心是如何面对现代性危机的问题：在解决这一问题时，他们并没有盲目崇拜英美理论，而是运用英美国际研究的见解来表达这种关切。

Scholars have often noted that the field of international studies in postwar Japan is merely a copy ("yu-nyu," or "import") of Anglo-American International Relations (IR). Against this background, the present study has investigated the details of this "import" by scrutinizing how Japanese intellectuals read the works of classical Anglo-American theorists such as E. H. Carr, Hans J. Morgenthau, and Harold Nicolson. It proved that at the center of those Japanese intellectuals' enterprise was the problem of how to face the crisis of modernity: grappling with this issue, they did not idolatrize the Anglo-American theories but they employed the insights of Anglo-American international studies only for articulating such concern.