Pukyong National University Publishes 4 Volumes of Pan-Pacific Research Achievements Series

The Institute of Global Area Studies at Pukyong National University has published a research series compiling research achievements related to the Pan-Pacific region.

The Institute of Global Area Studies at Pukyong National University released the research series Pan-Pacific Urban Studies: Explorations of Transversality and Connectivity and American Tiensia on the 31st and 1st, respectively.

Pan-Pacific Urban Studies: Explorations of Transversality and Connectivity is a research work that identifies the characteristics and formation processes of key gateway cities in the Pan-Pacific region, such as Guangzhou, Yokohama, Singapore, Hawaii, California, Los Angeles, and Veracruz.

This book provides clues to understanding the formation of gateway cities centered on the Pacific, a transethnic region encompassing the movement of ideas, people, and things, and lays the foundation for discussions on maritime urban culture as reciprocity and hospitality for a sustainable future of the Pan-Pacific.

'CPT Cities: Transpacific Urbanism and the Politics of Cross-Connection' (left) and 'American Tiensia' covers.

The translated work, American Tiensia, presents a provocative argument that today’s world, where US-China hegemonic competition is intensifying, was shaped into a US-centered order after a long century of turmoil in the 20th century.

The new US-centered order is not a world dominated by the United States, but rather a so-called “American Tiensia,” where people worldwide willingly accept the American “hierarchy of excellence” and aspire to climb its ladder. Based on this, the book examines the impact of current US-China interconnections on the world order and attempts to predict the world order from a long-term historical perspective.

Prior to these publications, the institute compiled research achievements related to the Pan-Pacific region by publishing a total of four research series this year, including Construction of Empire and War, which looks at Japan’s modernization through the prism of war, and Where the Sea Meets Art Locally, which studies cultural and artistic urban regeneration in the maritime city of Busan.

The Institute of Global Area Studies at Pukyong National University has been selected for the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Institute Support Project by the National Research Foundation of Korea and is conducting research titled “Peaceful Co-evolution of Multiple Civilizations in the Pan-Pacific as a Mega-Region: Regional Integration, National Rivalry, and Urban Hospitality.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.