Railways and the Russo-Japanese War

Patrikeeff, Felix; Shukman, Harry

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“…The Czech/Russian arms sale to Egypt was a major factor leading to Israel’s preventive motivation for war in the 1956 Sinai Campaign (Levy and Gochal 2001–2002). The anticipated completion of Russia’s trans‐Siberian railroad and its expected enhancement of Russia’s power projection capabilities in East Asia contributed to Japan’s decision for war in 1904 (Patrikeeff and Shukman 2007).…”

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Preventive War and Democratic Politics.

Levy

2008

Int Studies Q

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I define the concept of preventive war, distinguish it from preemption and other sources of better‐now‐than‐later logic, and examine numerous conceptual issues that confound theoretical and empirical analyses of prevention. I then consider the argument that democracies rarely if ever adopt preventive war strategies because such strategies are contrary to the preferences of democratic publics and to the values and identities of democratic states. I examine a number of historical cases of anticipated power shifts by democratic states, and analyze the motivations for war and the mobilization of public support for war. The evidence contradicts both the descriptive proposition that democracies do not adopt preventive war strategies and causal propositions about the constraining effects of democratic institutions and democratic political cultures.

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Preventive War and Democratic Politics.

Levy

2008

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“…Sugar plantations in Taiwan ranked amongst the largest joint stock businesses in Japan (Suzuki 1990). After the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-1905, Japan forcibly took possession of the Liaotong Peninsula (containing Dalian and Port Arthur), where it established the South Manchuria Railway, which depended heavily at the time on the trade in soybeans and products (Patrikeff and Shukman 2007;Allen andDonnithorne [1954] 2003;Fitzgerald 2015).…”

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Japanese multinationals in the post-bubble era: new challenges and evolving capabilities

Fitzgerald

Rowley

2015

Asia Pacific Business Review

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Since the bursting of Japan's bubble economy, from 1990 onwards, Japanese multinational companies (MNCs) have faced new competitive challenges and questions about the management practices on which they had built their initial success in global markets. Japanese engagement in the international economy has undergone a number of phases. In the period before the Second World War, Japanese companies learnt from foreign MNCs in trading, shipping, and manufacturing, frequently through strategic alliances, and leveraged their capabilities to succeed in overseas and largely Asian markets. In the immediate post-war decades, during the Japanese 'economic miracle', there were notable examples of MNC investment in raw materials and labour intensive production, but both inward and outward foreign direct investment were not significant. Japanese companies achieved leadership in management and technology, in order to support a strategy of export-orientated industrialization. Changes in government policies in the developed economies of the US and Western Europe forced leading Japanese manufacturers to convert themselves into MNCs and to transfer their home-grown capabilities to overseas subsidiaries. The period after 1990 marked declining Japanese competitiveness and it asked questions about the ability of Japanese MNCs to be more responsive and global in their strategies, organization and capabilities.

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“…15 The benefits of the TSR were substantial, 16 as its opening would ensure year-round mass travel to the eastern periphery and extend the Empire's geostrategic heartland into Northeast Asia, thereby realising Mackinder's "geographical pivot" of history and reshaping Russia's outlook as the "strategic heartland of Northeast Asia". 17 Construction of the TSR, stretching from Moscow to Vladivostok, began in 1891. 18 On 31 May, Alexander III's son and successor, Nicholas, laid the foundation stone for the station on the Ussuri section.…”

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“…With war between Japan and Russia drawing closer, the tsar's government sought to develop the CER further "to make it a more efficient military carrier". 142 Such a step would have enabled more rapid transportation of its troops into Harbin in Manchuria and force Japan to counter with costly defensive measures. 143 In the end, hemmed in by adverse geographical conditions for fighting in Manchuria -crossing Siberia's Lake Baikal with reinforcements and supplies during the winter was only possible with an icebreaker and sledsand inflexible military strategy, Russia sorely missed access to strategic railroads.…”

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Revisiting Russo-Japanese Hegemonic Rivalry in East Asia before 1904: Korean Railroads

Jin

2020

Diplomacy & Statecraft

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Illustrating overlooked aspects of a hegemonic conflict surrounding the Korean peninsula amidst changing geopolitical dynamics in the Far East before the Russo-Japanese war, this analysis provides an alternate reading of international history during the age of "New Imperialism". With Korea's railroad system enmeshed with Russo-Japanese rivalry in Northeast Asia, a technologically inferior Korea could only resort to concession diplomacy and, relatedly, neutralisation -also attempted by Russia -to preserve its fragile independence. Despite the high hopes that accompanied them, such efforts were unable to protect Korea and its railroads from Japanese control as the clouds of the Russo-Japanese War overshadowed the region.Originally conceived to transport passengers and material goods in the nineteenth century, the political establishments in modern and modernising Powers learnt to appreciate the economic and military dimensions of railways, as the combination of steam locomotion and iron rails allowed armies to deploy quickly a large number of their forces over long distances. Strategic

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Railways and the Russo-Japanese War

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Preventive War and Democratic Politics.

Preventive War and Democratic Politics.

Japanese multinationals in the post-bubble era: new challenges and evolving capabilities

Revisiting Russo-Japanese Hegemonic Rivalry in East Asia before 1904: Korean Railroads

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