Kiri paramore biography

Imagining Globality: Japan & China’s approach to liberal internationalism

UCD Centre for Japanese Studies and the (opens in a new window)Irish Institute of Japanese Studies with UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work & Social Justice

Face-to-Face: (Theatre C004 UCD Health Sciences Building) & Online (Zoom)

Speaker: Prof.

Kiri Paramore (Professor of Asian Studies, University College Cork)

Abstract: In this talk, Kiri Paramore, Professor of Asian Studies at UCC, will comparatively analyse the significance of “liberal internationalism” as a political concept in modern Japan and China.

For most nations, and certainly for postcolonial states, comparison forms an important basis of political thought.

In Japan and China, comparative frameworks influence not only approaches to individual political issues and decisions, but also the structure of political thought itself. Comparison is also cen