Jefferson LECTURE SERIES

The Making of an International Civil Society

Akira Iriye, Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard University

May 03, 2000
UC Berkeley Campus

About Akira Iriye

Akira Iriye is the Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University. His interests extend beyond diplomatic relations between the United States and Pacific nations in the early and middle years of this century to include China and Japan in the global setting and the globalization of the United States. Iriye has authored more than ten books on United States foreign policy in the Pacific region, with works spanning the turn of the century through the Second World War. His most recent books are Japan and the Wider World (1997) and Cultural Internationalism and World Order (1997). The latter book argued that a stable world order depends on governments and power politics as well as on attempts to build cultural understanding and cooperation through shared values, important features of international relations throughout the twentieth century. Iriye has received a Guggenheim fellowship and the Yoshida prize in Japan for the best book in public history in 1979. He received a B.A. in English history from Haverford College in 1957 and a Ph.D. in U.S. and East Asian History from Harvard University in 1961.