Description:
In Architects of Occupation, Dayna L. Barnes exposes the wartime origins of occupation policy and broader plans for postwar Japan. She considers the role of presidents, bureaucrats, think tanks, the media, and Congress in policymaking.
Brief description: Dayna L. Barnes is Lecturer in Modern History at City, University of London.
Review Quotes:
Barnes' engaging intellectual and social history of the planners provides a fresh window into the origins of today's liberal international order.
-- "Foreign Affairs"