Pekka Korhonen


Pekka Korhonen is a Finnish political scientist. He is a professor of world politics at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research interests concern world politics and Asia. Korhonen is currently studying Asia as a concept.

Works (selected)

1.'The Theory of the Flying Geese Pattern of Development and Its Interpretations'. Journal of Peace Research, 1994, Vol. 31, No 1, pp. 93–108.
2. 'Economism as a Pacific Peace Project'. Philippine Political Science Journal, 1994–95, Nos 37-38, pp. 1–28.
3. 'The Pacific Age in World History'. Journal of World History, Spring 1996, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 41–70.
4.'Monopolizing Asia. The Politics of a Metaphor', The Pacific Review, 1997, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 347–365. Anthologized in Peter W. Preston Political Change in East Asia, Ashgate: Aldershot, 2003.
5. 'Naming Spaces', Fennia, 1999, Vol. 177, No. 2, pp. 123–136.
6. 'Akamatsu Kaname. Entwicklungstheorie in Ostasien: Das Gänseflug-Modell', Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit 1999, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 169–171.
7. 'The Political Geography of Okakura Tenshin', Nichibunken Japan Review, 2001, No. 13, pp. 107–127.
8. 'Asia's Chinese Name', Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2002, Vol. 3, No 2, pp. 253–270.
9.'Common Culture. Asia Rhetoric in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century', Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2008, Vol. 9, No 3, pp. 395–417.
10.'Changing Definitions of Asia', Asia-Europe Journal, 2012; Vol. 10, No 2-3, pp. 99–112.
11. 'Tora-san and Kurosagi as Symbols of Changing Japanese Society', Journal of Intimate and Public Spheres, 2013, Vol 2, No 1, pp. 145–146.
12. Leaving Asia? The Meaning of Datsu-A and Japan's Modern History アジアを去る？脱亞の意味と日本の近代史。The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 9, No. 3, March 3, 2014.