The Divorce of Two Islands, the End of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, and the Interpretation of Post-WWI International Policy

dc.contributor.authorFerrari, Miguel Leite
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-20T08:29:59Z
dc.date.available2025-08-20T08:29:59Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstract-translatedThe study aims to analyse the relations between Japan and Great Britain through the Anglo-Japanese alliance, an alliance between two island empires from different parts of the world that, due to the geopolitical scenario and the issues they faced at the beginning of the 20th century, such as the threat of the Russian Empire, they decided to join forces in a treaty that assured their positions in the Far East. As the years passed, they decided to renew the alliance twice, becoming essential politically, economically, and militarily for both of them, especially in the 1910s. Despite this close link, the alliance wasn’t extremely popular for various reasons, whether within the empires or abroad. As the First World War ended, the new world that emerged saw the alliance and the style of diplomacy it was made by as antiquated. The situation eventually evolved into the abrogation of the alliance at the Washington Conference. However, the memory of the alliance would be transformed by those who were against internationalism and the characteristics of the new style of diplomacy, seeing the alliance as an example of the reliability of the old style, thereby creating a myth that considers its abrogation to have been a massive blunder that eventually led to the Pacific War, that permeates to this day, the “ghost” of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. Therefore, this study aims to explain what the alliance was and its circumstances, from the beginning till its end, and how it affected the course of the 20th century.en
dc.format28 s.cs
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dc.identifier.issn1804-5480
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11025/62692
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherZápadočeská univerzita v Plznics
dc.rights© Západočeská univerzita v Plznics
dc.rights.accessopenAccessen
dc.subjectbezpečnostní obavycs
dc.subjectstrategické obavycs
dc.subjectmýtuscs
dc.subjectnová diplomaciecs
dc.subjectzrušenícs
dc.subjectotevřené dveřecs
dc.subjectWashingtonská námořní konferencecs
dc.subject.translatedsecurity concernsen
dc.subject.translatedstrategic concernsen
dc.subject.translatedmythen
dc.subject.translatednew diplomacyen
dc.subject.translatedabrogationen
dc.subject.translatedopen dooren
dc.subject.translatedWashington Naval Conferenceen
dc.titleThe Divorce of Two Islands, the End of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, and the Interpretation of Post-WWI International Policyen
dc.typečlánekcs
dc.typearticleen
dc.type.statusPeer revieweden
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
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