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Osaragi Jiro Tribune Award おさらぎじろうろんだんしょう

Edition 3 (2003)

Criticism

Winners

2 people
Hideaki Shinoda しのだ ひであき award

Peacebuilding and the Rule of Law is Hideaki Shinoda's theoretical study of international peace operations. Drawing on United Nations documents and intellectual history, it analyzes the institutions and functions of peacebuilding through the concept of the rule of law.

A study in international politics that reads peacebuilding through the rule of law.

255 pages
peacebuildingrule of lawinternational peace operationsUnited Nations
Eiji Oguma おぐま えいじ award

Democracy and Patriotism is Eiji Oguma's large-scale intellectual and social history of nationalism and publicness in postwar Japan. It crosses topics such as the Constitution, the left, conservatives, education, and intellectual debates to trace how postwar political language was formed.

A re-reading of postwar Japan's ideas of democracy and patriotism through the words of intellectuals and society.

966 pages
postwar Japannationalismpublicnessintellectual historyconstitution