Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the author of Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World (2002), Cultural Imperialism and World Order (1998), China and Japan in the Global Setting (1993), Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War 1941–1945 (1981), Pacific Estrangement: Japanese and American Expansion, 1897–1911 (1972), Across the Pacific: An Inner History of American-East Asian Relations (1967) and After Imperialism: The Search for a New Order in the Far East, 1921–1931 (1965).
