A WORLD OF REGIONS -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One. American Power in World Politics -- America and Regions -- Globalization and Internationalization -- Porous Regional Orders -- Cases and Perspectives -- Chapter Two. Regional Orders -- Regional Politics, Present at the Creation -- Ethnic Capitalism in Asian Market Networks -- Law and Politics in a European Polity -- Chapter Three. Regional Identities -- Regional Identities in Asia and Europe -- East and West -- Germany and Japan -- Chapter Four. Regional Orders in Economy and Security -- Technology and Production Networks in Asia and Europe -- External and Internal Security in Europe and Asia -- Regional Orders in Asia and Europe -- Chapter Five. Porous Regions and Culture -- Cultural Diplomacy of Japan and Germany -- Popular Culture in Asia and Europe -- A Very Distant World-Closed Regions in the 1930s -- Chapter Six. Linking Regions and Imperium -- Connecting to the Center-Germany and Japan in the American Imperium -- Connecting to the Periphery-Subregionalism in Europe and Asia -- Two-Way Americanization -- Chapter Seven. The American Imperium in a World of Regions -- American Imperium -- Porous Regions in Europe and Asia -- The Americas -- Extending the Argument to South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East -- Predicaments and Possibilities of Imperium -- Bibliography -- Index.