Shifting Boundaries

Yongle Zhang received his Ph.D. (2008) from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an associate professor at Peking University, working on legal history, political history, and intellectual history. He has published six monographs in Chinese and is co-editor of The Constitution of Ancient China (2018).

• ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction “Monroe Doctrine”: the Global Spread of a Concept of Spatial Politics1 Problems, Approaches and Methods2 The Monroe Doctrine and the Four Levels of Spatial Politics3 Multipolarization and Uncertain Prospects for Global Order4 Conclusion1 Beyond the Western Hemisphere: the Evolution of American Discourse on the Monroe Doctrine1 From the “Monroe Doctrine” to the “Wilsonian Doctrine”: Continuity or Discontinuity?2 Returning to Monroe from Wilson?3 Conclusion2 “Katechon” in Central Europe? Monroe Doctrine, Großraum and International Law1 From the 19th Century to the First World War2 The Decay of European Public Law3 The Structural Vulnerability of the Versailles System4 The Großraum Order and the New International Law5 Conclusion3 Ambiguous “Resistance”: the Rise of Japan’s “Asiatic Monroe Doctrine”1 The Merging of the Concepts of Asianism and Monroe Doctrine2 The First World War and the Vicissitudes of the Japanese Monroe Doctrine3 The Full Flowering of the Japanese Monroe Doctrine4 Conclusion4 The Rise of Provincial Monroe Doctrine in China1 Fermentation: Three Spatial Aspects of the Monroe Doctrine2 The Development of the Provincial Monroe Doctrine after the 1911 Revolution3 The Decline of the Provincial Monroe Doctrine4 Epilogue5 The Disenchantment of the Asiatic Monroe Doctrine Discourse1 Liang Qichao: Leader of the Disenchantment2 Sun Yat-sen: Financial Autonomy and Discourse Autonomy3 Chiang Kai-shek: between the US and Japan Monroe Doctrines4 The School of Warring States Strategy: the Prospect of Great Powers Doctrine5 Li Dazhao: Criticism of the Monroe Doctrine towards the Future6 ConclusionBibliographyIndex