CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

1. INTRODUCTION

2. THE UNIVERSAL WEST: EUROPE BEYOND ITS CHRISTIAN AND WHITE RACE IDENTITY (1840–1882)

The Great Rupture: Ottoman Imagination of a European Model

Ottoman Westernism and the European International Society

A Non-Christian Europe?

The West in Early Japanese Reformist Thought

The Modern Genesis of Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Ideas

Conclusion

3. THE TWO FACES OF THE WEST: IMPERIALISM VERSUS ENLIGHTENMENT (1882–1905)

The Muslim World as an Inferior Semitic Race: Ernest Renan and His Muslim Critics

Yellow Versus White Peril? Pan-Asian Critiques and Conceptions of World Order

Crescent Versus Cross? Pan-Islamic Reflections on the “Clash of Civilizations” Thesis

Conclusion

4. THE GLOBAL MOMENT OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR: THE AWAKENING OF THE EAST/EQUALITY WITH THE WEST 1905–1912)

An Alternative to the West? Asian Observations on the Japanese Model

Defining an Anti-Western Internationalism: Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Visions of Solidarity

Japanese Pan-Asianism After the Russo-Japanese War

Conclusion

5. THE IMPACT OF WWI ON PAN-ISLAMIC AND PAN-ASIANIST VISIONS OF WORLD ORDER

Pan-Islamism and the Ottoman State

The Realist Pan-Islamism of Celal Nuri and İsmail Naci Pelister

Pan-Islamic Mobilization during WWI

The Transformation of Pan-Asianism During WWI: Ôkawa Shûmei, Indian Nationalists, and Asiaphile European Romantics

Asia as a Site of National Liberation

Asia as the Hope of Humanity

Conclusion

6. THE TRIUMPH OF NATIONALISM? THE EBBING OF PAN-ISLAMIC AND PAN-ASIAN VISIONS OF WORLD ORDER DURING THE 1920S

The Wilsonian Moment and Pan-Islamism

The Wilsonian Moment and Pan-Asianism

Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asianist Perceptions of Socialist Internationalism

“Clash of Civilizations” in the Age of Nationalism

The Weakness of Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asianist Political Projects During the 1920s

Conclusion

7. THE REVIVAL OF A PAN-ASIANIST VISION OF WORLD ORDER IN JAPAN (1931–1945)

Explaining Japan’s Official “Return to Asia”

Withdrawal from the League of Nations as a Turning Point

Asianist Journals and Organizations

Asianist Ideology of the 1930s

Wartime Asian Internationalism and Its Postwar Legacy

Conclusion

8. CONCLUSION

 

Notes

Bibliography

Index