
Akira Iriye
Author · 11 books
Akira Iriye is an historian of American diplomatic history especially United States-East Asian relations, and international issues. A graduate of Haverford College and Harvard University, he taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Rochester, and the University of Chicago before accepting an appointment as Professor of History at Harvard University in 1989, where he became Charles Warren Professor of American History in 1991. He was Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies from 1991 through 1995. He served as President of the American Historical Association in 1988, and has also served as president for the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
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Global Community
The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World
2002

The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific
1987

The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States
1998

Global and Transnational History
The Past, Present, and Future
2012

Power and Culture
The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945
1981

Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War
A Brief History with Documents and Essays
1999

The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, Volume 3
the Globalizing of America, 1913-1945
1993

Cultural Internationalism and World Order
1997

The Human Rights Revolution
An International History
2012

The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations 4 Volume Set
2013

Global Interdependence
The World after 1945
2013