American design in the twentieth century personality and performance Gregory Votolato

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After decades of solely relying on the United States for its national security needs, over the last decade, Japan has begun to actively develop and deepen its security ties with a growing number of countries and actors in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, a development that has further intensified under the Shinzo Abe administration. This is the first book that provides a comprehensive analysis of the motives and objectives from both the Japanese and the partner-countries' perspectives, and asks what this might mean for the security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region, and what lessons can be learned for security cooperation more broadly.This book is for those interested in Japan's security policy beyond the US-Japan security alliance, and non-US centred bilateral and multilateral security cooperation. It is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate level courses on regional security cooperation and strategic partnerships, and Japanese foreign and security policy.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Part I Place and Time
• Introductory Questions
• USA 1900
• Historical Time Chart
• Agents of Change
• Part II Style and Design
• Beyond the Cringe; American taste and style
• Utopia and the Mall; theories and philosophies
• Ideas and objects
• Materials and Technology
• Designers and Makers
• Approaches to Criticism
• Part III Four case studies
• Movements in Design; the case of Post-modernism
• An Industrial Drama; the custom car myth
• Making homes
• Nice threads: the case of American fashion
• Conclusion:
• Limitations and possibilities
• List of illustrations
• Bibliography