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DESCRIPTION:This panel argues that the world wars in Asia were not interrup
 tions to global integration but zones of contact that generated new forms 
 of cross-border connectivity. While recent scholarship in military and int
 ernational history has begun to explore war-generated globalization\, this
  work has not yet been brought into sustained conversation with world hist
 ory. This panel bridges that gap\, examining how conflict produced transna
 tional exchanges of ideas\, practices\, and material across Asia—often b
 etween states simultaneously closing their borders to peacetime commerce.\
 n\nLoughlin Sweeney traces how interactions between British\, Indian\, Jap
 anese\, Ottoman\, and American officers during the First World War transfo
 rmed military culture. Encounters in Asia forced a reckoning with competin
 g models of professionalization\, as officers learned not only from allies
  but from enemies\, accelerating the shift from "gallantry" to "efficiency
 " as an organizing principle. Thomas Bottelier reexamines inter-Allied eco
 nomic aid during the Second World War\, arguing that alliances functioned 
 as incubators of new international relationships rather than mere coalitio
 ns of convenience. United States aid to China\, routed through British Ind
 ia\, reveals multilateral networks of exchange operating within wartime bl
 ocs that complicate the image of the 1940s as a nadir of globalization. Ch
 ad Denton shows how Japan's metal requisition programs were modeled on Ger
 man precedents from both world wars\, with propaganda featuring Nazi paral
 lels to justify the requisition of household objects\, shrine bells\, and 
 bronze statues across Japan's empire.\n\nTogether\, the papers demonstrate
  that wartime Asia was a site of intensive\, if coerced\, globalization\, 
 and that Asia was central—not peripheral—to these processes.
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LOCATION:Room 204 PC Desk (Seats 30)
SUMMARY:War as Vector: Military and Economic Globalization in Asia\, 1914
 –1945 - Chad B. Denton\, Loughlin Sweeney\, Thomas W. Bottelier\, Tatsuy
 a Mitsuda
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/XGTN7Y/
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DESCRIPTION:The late nineteenth century saw the emergence of a complex of i
 nternational norms and legal practices which could be considered\, for the
  first time\, truly global. The questions relating to sovereignty\, citize
 nship\, and rights which emerged in East Asia at this time constitute a cr
 itical and underexamined component of this transformation. Contact zones l
 ike the extraterritorial treaty ports of the China coast\, and crisis poin
 ts like the Sino-Japanese War and the Boxer uprising\, presented test case
 s for these norms\, and jurists applied new descriptive frameworks to expl
 ain the international system that emerged as a result. \nThis paper argues
  that one reason why this phenomenon has been underexamined is due to a co
 nceptual shortcoming in the history of international relations\, which sti
 ll views international law as the product of a ‘diffusion’ of civiliza
 tional values from the West\, with little modification or influence from o
 ther cultures. Critiquing this approach has become increasingly important\
 , as it has been employed in recent years by both critics and supporters o
 f a worldview characterised by the domination of ‘great powers’. \nWit
 h reference to the writing of East Asian\, European\, and American jurists
  and diplomats\, and the operations of extraterritorial courts and interna
 tional organisations\, this paper argues that East Asia was a centre for t
 he production of international norms\, not a periphery. These examples are
  mobilised in support of a less ‘diffusionist’ conceptual framework fo
 r international history\, illustrating the early utility of international 
 legal concepts as not only servants of the great powers\, but also as a to
 ol for promoting the sovereignty of small states and holding powerful acto
 rs to account.
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LOCATION:Room 302 (Seats 48)
SUMMARY:Origins of International Law in East Asia\, 1860-1920: Towards a Gl
 obal History of International Norms - Loughlin Sweeney
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/8MJD3K/
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