Assess Kenneth Pyle’s account of how Japan’s attempt to
establish and lead a regional order during the Second World War began with a conservative
response to the Treaty of Versailles and the Washington System. Your paper
should explain who the revisionists were, why they had a problem with
accommodation to “international liberalism,” and how they tried to break out
and create a “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.” Your paper should also
address why the new order was flawed internally and ultimately failed. Successful papers will feature a close reading
of chapters 5 and 6 of Pyle’s text