• Asian review of World Histories
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.219-234
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• 2015

The author stresses delicate but important differences of meaning between "global history" in English and its Japanized form "gurobaru hisutori." After explaining the specific path of Japanese historiography on world history from the end of the nineteenth century to the present, he points out important features of contemporary Japanese view on world history and discusses its merits and demerits. Finally, he underlines the potential of various contributions by Japanese historians who have a particular background and joined the discussion on global history in the world through a different path.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.610-614
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• 2001

20세기 개혁과 개방의 기치를 높이 들고 세계사에 새롭게 등장한 중국은 정치제도는 그대로 사회주의를 고수하고 있다 그러나 등소평이 남순강화에서 제창하고 주창한 '색깔에 관계없이 쥐를 잘 잡는 고양이를 선호한다"는 실용주의 노선을 근거로 경제적으로는 시장경제 원리를 도입하여 눈부신 성장을 거듭하고 있으며 특히 21세기 초일류 국가로의 재비상을 위하여 그 요체가 되는 정보통신산업의 발전과 육성을 위해 매진하고 있다. 본고에서는 중국이 개혁과 개방을 하는 과정에서 정보통신산업의 육성과 그 정책의 추진과정을 살펴보고 21세기 정보통신 산업과 정책의 향후 발전방향도 예측해 보고자 연구하였다.구하였다.

• Defense and Technology
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• no.4 s.266
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• pp.56-63
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• 2001

비잔틴 제국의 전략은 본질적으로 중세의 세련된 억제의 개념이었는데, 그것은 가능한 한 전쟁을 피하는 것에 기초하고 있었다. 가능한 한 최소의 비용 지출과 최소한의 병력으로 침략자들과 필요시 전쟁을 하고, 필요하면 격퇴하고 심판하고 압박하는 것이었다. 경제적, 정치적 및 심리적인 전쟁을 구사하여 실무의 운용에 도움을 주었고, 가끔 실전도 치르지 않은 채 이상의 요소만으로 전쟁을 수행하기도 하였다. 무시무시한 적들로부터 가해지는 위험을 줄이기 위하여 언제나 동맹 정책이 사용되었다. 분쟁이 발생된 지역에 가까이 위치한 동맹국들이나 반독립적인 야만인 추장에 대하여 지불된 보조금은 군대의 부담을 역시 감소시켰다.

• 방재와보험
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• s.121
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• pp.60-65
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• 2007

인류의 종교사에서 커다란 사건 가운데 하나를 꼽으라면 아마 조로아스터교의 출현을 들 수 있을 것이다. 고대 아시아에서 배화교라고도 알려진 이 종교는 종교사 만큼이나 세계사의 흐름을 바꿔 놓는 데도 큰 역할을 했다. 우선 조로아스터교의 등장은 진정한 세계 제국이 등장할 수 있는 토대가 되었다. 그 이전의 모든 종교는 민족 종교의 성격이 강했다. 그래서 어느 민족이 패권을 잡게 되면 피지배 민족의 신은 철저하게 배척당하거나 파괴되었다. 성경을 접해본 사람이라면 구약의 이스라엘 민족이 정복한 민족과 그들의 신을 얼마나 철저하게 파괴하는지를 알 수 있다. 그러나 조로아스터교의 경우는 다른 종교들과는 조금 달랐다.

• Asian review of World Histories
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.227-263
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• 2013

Examining the patterns of evolution of interstate systems in Asia, this article argues that the relationship of state-builders to nomads stood in much of continental Asia stood in sharp contrast to the relationships between rulers and mercantile-financial elites in Europe. Due to the productivity of wet-rice economies, continental Asian rulers were not dependent on merchants and bankers to raise armies to wage war or suppress rebellions unlike their European counterparts. Hence they had no need to grant bankers and merchants concessions, especially monopolies which is how large volumes of capital are accumulated. Geographic conditions however meant that while the lack of internal frontiers meant that large continental-sized states could be created in China, this was not possible in the Indian subcontinent where a more chequered equilibrium where nomads enjoyed a military advantage in arid and semi-arid tracts meant that trans-subcontinental polities enjoyed only a fleeting existence. In mainland southeast Asia, where dense forests and a difficult terrain insulated the region from nomadic conquests, a third variant of interstate relations emerged.

• Asian review of World Histories
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.189-226
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• 2013

Discussions of world history often focus on the pros and cons of thinking on large spatial scales. However, world history also tends to employ unusually large timescales, both for research and teaching; frequently it is framed around a teleology and a series of "revolutions" which mark milestones taking humans from a very distant past to "modernity". Moreover, world history usually rejects regionally specific period markers (e.g. Renaissance), making periodization within this long timespan especially difficult. This article surveys various approaches to these problems, and shows that any of them, if treated as sufficient by itself, introduces significant distortions. It argues for a world history that highlights this problem, rather than hiding it, and which uses the need to deploy multiple timescales simultaneously to clarify the distinctive intellectual contribution of historical thinking.

• Asian review of World Histories
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.125-132
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• 2016

This paper, as a conlcusion to this special issue, presents the future work that is being carried out at NTU Singapore in collaboration with Microsoft Research and Microsoft Azure for Research. For our research team the real frontier research in world histories starts when we want to use computers to structure historical information, model historical narratives, simulate theoretical large scale hypotheses, and incent world historians to use virtual assistants and/or engage them in teamwork using social media and/or seduce them with immersive spaces to provide new learning and sharing environments, in which new things can emerge and happen: "You do not know which will be the next idea. Just repeating the same things is not enough" (Carlo Rubbia, 1984 Nobel Price in Physics, at Nanyang Technological University on January 19, 2016).

• Asian review of World Histories
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.217-248
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• 2014

The Aid-India Consortium was organized in 1958 as an international scheme to support the economic development of India, and led by the World Bank. This article reconsiders the economic diplomacy of the Indian Government in the 1950s and 1960s, by paying attention to the interactions between the Indian authorities and the donor countries and institutions, in the context of the Cold War regime, decolonization and economic aid to the newly independent countries. First, it deals with the development of the Aid-India Consortium by considering debates at its annual meetings and the skillful negotiations of the Indian Government and financial authorities. It focuses especially on the leading role of an Indian diplomat and financial expert, B. K. Nehru. The article then tries to reveal an Indian initiative in solving the 'food crises' of 1965-67 through intimate collaboration with the US government and the World Bank, using the framework of the Aid-India Consortium. These attempts lead to a reconsideration of the economic order of Asia in the 1950s and 1960s.

• Asian review of World Histories
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.171-200
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• 2015

At its simplest, this essay provides a narrative of migration in Asia since the arrival of Homo sapiens some 70,000 years ago. More fully, it presents the case for conducting long-term, world-historical interpretation for Asia with attention to multiple perspectives, which has become increasingly central to global historical analysis. Following an introductory articulation of the benefits of long-term interpretation, the second section presents a balance of three perspectives-empire, exchange, and migration-as frameworks for interpreting the Asian past. The third section presents further detail on migration in long-term Asian history. The concluding section identifies four changes in patterns of migration during the past two centuries and emphasizes the underlying importance of cross-community migration in long-term human biological and social evolution.

• Asian review of World Histories
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.201-218
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• 2015

World history today has been greatly influenced by the fact that it was the revolution in naval power during the past two centuries that made the world truly global. This has led to a new master narrative that re-framed five millennia of recorded history in order to explain the ultimate triumph of the maritime economies. The result of such revision is to underestimate and distort the role of continental Eurasia in the shaping of the three key civilizations that developed independently and remain distinct: the Mediterranean, the Indic and the Sinic. Only by a fuller reappraisal of the linkages of trade and war dominated by the Eurasian central forces for most of history can we understand the global pressures perennially at work. By setting the continental and the maritime in their total historical context and recognizing their importance today, we can better explain what is happening and what is likely to continue to influence the course of world history.