MORE ON OCCUPATIONS– JAPAN AND

MORE ON OCCUPATIONS– JAPAN AND IRAQ: What I forgot to mention in my earlier long screed on comparative occupation-ology was that there’s a great article by the historian of modern Japan John Dower, in the current issue of Boston Review in which he elegantly and to my view convincingly debunks the idea that we can make a meaningful analogy between what the American occupation of Japan achieved and what we might expect the American occupation of Iraq to achieve.
(In that same issue, there’s also my piece on Syria and the prospect of democratization, and a good piece by Neta Crawford on pre-emption.)