Great response to this discussion topic! In your opinion, what factors that led to the outbreak of the Pacific War developed from a legacy of post-World War I international treaties and events? In what ways did the Japanese view of post-World War I international affairs contrast with the United States’ view of international affairs and the conditions created by post-World War treaties? To what extent did either side’s ethnocentric value systems influence political tactics before, during and after the Pacific War?

• What are some of the key features of the Asian model of economic development? What features are the same as those in the West? What features are different?
• Did the U.S. approach to the occupation of Japan acknowledge the importance of international economic cooperation? Did it foreshadow the future economic interdependence of the world’s industrial economic powers?
• What important differences are there in the ways that NIEs have developed their political policies to facilitate economic development?

Also consider how the conditions created by the international peace brokered at the end of World War I influenced the way the Japan formed political and economic policy before World War II. After the end of World War II in the Pacific, did the U.S. and its Western European allies use that historical perspective to change the way they developed economic and political policies for their Pacific Asia affairs?