Non-Governmental Organizations and Origins of Asia-Pacific Regionalism: The Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR: 1925‒1961)

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  • Mimaki Seiko
    Associate Professor, Takasaki City University of Economics

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  • Non-Governmental Organizations and Origins of Asia-Pacific Regionalism: The Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR: 1925–1961)

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<p>This paper seeks to give prominence to the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR), one of the earliest transnational NGOs in the Asia-Pacific region, and illuminates state-NGO relations in the region in the early days. Founded in 1925, the IPR was a novel organization in its membership and its purpose. First, its membership ranged universally inside and outside the region, including Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Hawaii, New Zealand, the US, Korea, the Philippines, Britain, France, the Netherlands, and the Soviet Union. It also included observers from the League of Nations and the International Labor Office. Secondly and more importantly, the IPR was launched with a radical purpose of building a “Pacific Community,” a transnational civil society in today’s word, through frank and rational discussion among leading intellectuals from all over the region. Though the majority of IPR members were national elites who maintained close ties with the governments, they believed that they could keep enough autonomy from the governments and independently pursue an idealistic regional order. This paper highlights the changing relationships of the IPR with the governments. In the 1920s, with optimistic hope for a new regional order, the IPR members found their mission to stay out of politics so as to independently pursue its own transnational ideals. Facing the turbulent international crisis of the 1930s, however, many members found its early “Pacific Community” ideal as outdated, and strengthened their tie with the governments, believing that they could make worthy contributions to their governments with their knowledge and expertise on the Asia-Pacific region. The history of the IPR reveals the enduring dilemma of the NGOs; stay out of politics in order to pursue higher ideals, or get into politics in order to realize even a part of their ideals in policy-making process.</p>

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