ABSTRACT
This special issue on ‘American Empire in Global History’ is the result of a joint-research project at the Global History Division, the Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (OTRI) 1 , Osaka University, to celebrate the 70th Anniversary Annual Congress of Japanese Association of Western History, in May 2020 at Osaka University, Japan. We originally planned to have an international workshop followed by a symposium on ‘“American Empire” in the context of Global History’. The symposium aimed at reconsidering the presence of the United States (US) in the twentieth century by combining recent historiographical developments in studies of the American empire in Europe and the US, with work on international relations and comparative studies of empires by East Asian and Japanese scholars set in the wider context of global history.
