| Semester | Spring Semester, 2018 | ||
| Department | International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, First Year International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Second Year | ||
| Course Name | International Relations of the Asia-Pacific | ||
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| Credit | 3.0 | ||
| Course Type | Elective | ||
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*Dosch, Jörn. “The United States in the Asia Pacific: Still the Hegemon?” “In The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific, 2nd ed., ed. Michael K. Connors, Rémy Davison and Jörn Dosch, 22-36. London: Routledge, 2012.
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Pempel, T. J. "More Pax, Less Americana in Asia." International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 10, no. 3 (2010): 465-490.
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*Saunders, Phillip C. “China’s Role in Asia: Attractive or Assertive?” In International Relations of Asia, 2nd ed., ed. David Shambaugh and Michael Yahunda, 147-172. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Becckley, Michael. “China's Century? Why America's Edge Will Endure.” International Security 36 (Winter 2011-2012): 41-78.
*Beeson, Mark. "Can China Lead?" Third World Quarterly 34, no. 2 (2013): 233-250.
*Chan, Steve. "So What About a Power Shift? Caveat Emptor." Asian Perspective 38 (July/September 2014): 363-385.
*Christensen, Thomas. “Fostering Stability or Creating a Monster? The Rise of China and U.S. Policy toward East Asia.” International Security 31 (Summer 2006): 81-126.
Davison, Rémy. “The Rise of China in the Asia-Pacific.” In The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific, 2nd ed., ed. Michael K. Connors, Rémy Davison and Jörn Dosch, 37-59. London: Routledge, 2012.
Gilley, Bruce. “Beyond the Four Percent Solution: Explaining the Consequences of China's Rise.” Journal of Contemporary China 20 (November 2011): 795-811.
*Glaser, Charles. “Will China's Rise Lead to War: Why Realism Does Not Mean Pessimism.” Foreign Affairs 90 (March 2011): 80-91.
Goldstein, Avery. “Power Transitions, Institutions, and China's Rise in East Asia: Theoretical Expectations and Evidence.” Journal of Strategic Studies 30 (August-October 2007): 639-682.
*Ikenberry, G. John. "The Rise of China and the Future of the West: Can the Liberal System Survive?" Foreign Affairs 87 (January-February 2008): 23-37.
*Kirshner, Jonathan. “The Tragedy of Offensive Realism: Classical Realism and the Rise of China.” European Journal of International Relations 18 (March 2012): 53-75.
Kastner, Scott L. "The Global Implications of China’s Rise." International Studies Review 10 (December 2008): 786-794.
*McDougall, Derek. “Responses to ‘Rising China’ in the East Asian Region: Soft Balancing with Accommodation.” Journal of Contemporary China 21 (January 2012): 1-17.
Mearsheimer, John J. "The Gathering Storm: China’s Challenge to US Power in Asia." The Chinese Journal of International Politics 3, no. 4 (2010): 381-396.
Saunders, Phillip C. “China’s Role in Asia.” In International Relations of Asia, ed. David Shambaugh and Michael Yahunda, 127-149. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
Scobell, Andrew. "Learning to Rise Peacefully? China and the Security Dilemma." Journal of Contemporary China 21 (July 2012): 713-721.
*Shambaugh, David. "Coping with a Conflicted China." The Washington Quarterly 34 (Winter 2011): 7-27.
*Sørensen, Camilla. "Is China Becoming More Aggressive? A Neoclassical Realist Analysis." Asian Perspective 37 (July-September 2013): 363-385.
*Womack, Brantly. "China's Future in a Multinodal World Order." Pacific Affairs 87 (June 2014): 265-284.
*Green, Michael. “Japan’s Role in Asia: Searching for Certainty.” In International Relations of Asia, 2nd ed., ed. David Shambaugh and Michael Yahunda, 177-222. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
*Solis, Mireya. “Japan Foreign Economic Policies.” In The Oxford Handbook of International Relation of Asia, ed. Saadia M. Pekkanen, John Ravenhill, and Rosemary Foot, 141-159. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
*Hughes, Christopher W. “Japan’s Foreign Security Relations and Policies.” In The Oxford Handbook of International Relation of Asia, ed. Saadia M. Pekkanen, John Ravenhill, and Rosemary Foot, 371-390. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
*Atanassova-Cornelis, Elena. “The Political and Security Dimension of Japan-China Relations: Strategic Mistrust and Fragile Stability.” Pacific Focus 26 (August 2011): 165-187.
*Hughes, Christopher. “Japan's Response to China's Rise: Regional Engagement, Global Containment, Dangers of Collision.” International Affairs 85 (July 2009): 837–856.
Jerden, Bjorn, and Linus Hagstrom. “Rethinking Japan's China Policy: Japan as an Accommodator in the Rise of China, 1978-2011.” Journal of East Asian Studies 12 (2012): 215-250.
*Katz, Richard. "Mutual Assured Production: Why Trade Will Limit Conflict between China and Japan." Foreign Affairs 92 (July/August 2013): 18.
*Manicom, James, and Andrew O'Neil. "Sino-Japanese Strategic Relations: Will Rivalry Lead to Confrontation?" Australian Journal of International Affairs 63, no. 2 (2009): 213-232.
Smith, Paul J. “China-Japan Relations and the Future Geopolitics of East Asia.” Asian Affairs: An American Review 35, no. 4 (2009): 230-256.
*Takeuchi, Hiroki. "Sino-Japanese Relations: Power, Interdependence, and Domestic Politics." International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 14 (January 2014): 7-32.
He, Yinan. "History, Chinese Nationalism and the Emerging Sino-Japanese Conflict." Journal of Contemporary China 16 (2007): 1-24.
Berger, Thomas U. "From Sword to Chrysanthemum: Japan's Culture of Anti-militarism." International Security 17 (Spring 1993): 119-150.
Connors, Michael K. “Japan: The Power That Dares not Speak Its Name?” In The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific, 2nd ed., ed. Michael K. Connors, Rémy Davison and Jörn Dosch, 60-78. London: Routledge, 2012.
Green, Michael. “Japan in Asia.” In International Relations of Asia, ed. David Shambaugh and Michael Yahunda, 170-191. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
Heginbotham, Eric, and Richard J. Samuels. "Mercantile Realism and Japanese Foreign Policy." International Security 22 (Spring 1998): 171-203.
*Lind, Jennifer M. “Pacifism or Passing the Buck? Testing Theories of Japanese Security Policy.” International Security 29 (Summer 2004): 92-121.
Okano-Heijmans, Maaike. "Japan's New Economic Diplomacy: Changing Tactics or Strategy?" Asia-Pacific Review 19, no. 1 (2012): 62-87.
*Nesadurai, Helen E. S. “The Political Economy of Southeast Asia’s Foreign Economic Policies and Relations.” In The Oxford Handbook of International Relation of Asia, ed. Saadia M. Pekkanen, John Ravenhill, and Rosemary Foot, 217-240. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
*Goh, Evelyn. “Southeast Asia’s Evolving Security Relations and Strategies.” In The Oxford Handbook of International Relation of Asia, ed. Saadia M. Pekkanen, John Ravenhill, and Rosemary Foot, 462-480. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
*Simon, Sheldon W. “ASEAN and Southeast Asia: Remaining Relevant.” In International Relations of Asia, 2nd ed., ed. David Shambaugh and Michael Yahunda, 225-2245. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Acharya, Amitav. "Ideas, Identity, and Institution-Building: From the ASEAN Way to the Asia-Pacific Way?" The Pacific Review 10, no. 3 (1997): 319-346.
Beeson, Mark. “ASEAN's Ways: Still Fit for Purpose?” Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 22 (September 2009): 333-343.
*Dosch, Jörn. “Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Challenge of Regionalism in the Asia Pacific.” “In The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific, 2nd ed., ed. Michael K. Connors, Rémy Davison and Jörn Dosch, 121-139. London: Routledge, 2012.
*Eaton, Sarah, and Richard Stubbs. "Is ASEAN Powerful? Neo-Realist versus Constructivist Approaches to Power in Southeast Asia." The Pacific Review 19, no. 2 (2006): 135-155.
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*Narine, Shaun. "ASEAN in the Twenty-first Century: A Sceptical Review." Cambridge Review of International Affairs 22 (September 2009): 369-386.
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*Acharya, Amitav. "Power Shift or Paradigm Shift? China's Rise and Asia's Emerging Security Order." International Studies Quarterly 58 (March 2014): 158-173.
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*Bisley, Nick. “China's Rise and the Making of East Asia's Security Architecture.” Journal of Contemporary China 21 (January 2012): 19-34.
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*Friedrichs, Jörg. “East Asian Regional Security: What the ASEAN Family Can (Not) Do.” Asian Survey 52 (July/August 2012): 754-776.
Green, Michael J., and Zack Cooper. "Revitalizing the Rebalance: How to Keep US Focus on Asia." The Washington Quarterly 37 (Fall 2014): 25-46.
*Hemmer, Christopher, and Peter J. Katzenstein. "Why is There No NATO in Asia? Collective Identity, Regionalism, and the Origins of Multilateralism." International Organization 56 (June 2002): 575-607.
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*Ba, Alice D. “Asia’s Regional Security Institutions.” In Oxford Handbook of International Relation of Asia, ed. Saadia M. Pekkanen, John Ravenhill, and Rosemary Foot, 667-689. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Davison, Rémy. “Globalization versus Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific.” In The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific, 2nd ed., ed. Michael K. Connors, Rémy Davison and Jörn Dosch, 176-203. London: Routledge, 2012.
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Cha, Victor D. "Can North Korea be Engaged?" Survival 46 (Summer 2004): 89-107.
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*Lee, Dong Sun. "Causes of North Korean Belligerence." Australian Journal of International Affairs 66, no. 2 (2012): 103-120.
Lee, Hochul. "China in the North Korean Nuclear Crises: ‘Interest’ and ‘Identity’ in Foreign Behavior." Journal of Contemporary China 22 (2012): 1-20.
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*Peou, Sorpong. “Why China's Rise May Not Cause Major Power?Transition War: A Review Essay.” Asian Politics & Policy 6 (January 2014): 121-131.
Ravenhill, John. "Is China an Economic Threat to Southeast Asia?" Asian Survey 46 (September/October 2006): 653-674.
Roy, Denny. "The’ China Threat’ Issue: Major Arguments." Asian Survey 36 (August 1996): 758-771.
*Sutter, Robert. “Assessing China's Rise and US Leadership in Asia: Growing Maturity and Balance.” Journal of Contemporary China 19 (2010): 591-604.
Yuen Foong Khong “Primacy or World Order? The United States and China's Rise—A Review Essay.” International Security 38 (Winter 2013/14): 153-175.
Zhao, Suisheng. "A New Model of Big Power Relations? China–US strategic Rivalry and Balance of Power in the Asia–Pacific." Journal of Contemporary China ahead-of-print (2014): 1-21.
*Chong, Ja Ian, and Todd H. Hall. "The Lessons of 1914 for East Asia Today: Missing the Trees for the Forest." International Security 39 (Summer 2014): 7-43.
*Krause, Joachim. “Assessing the Danger of War: Parallels and Differences between Europe in 1914 and East Asia in 2014.” International Affairs 90 (November 2014): 1421–1451.
*Jeffery, Renée. “Evaluating the ‘China Threat’: Power Transition Theory, the Successor-State Image and the Dangers of Historical Analogies.” Australian Journal of International Affairs 63, no. 2 (2009): 309-324.
Arase, David. “Non-traditional Security in China-ASEAN Cooperation: The Institutionalization of Regional Security Cooperation and the Evolution of East Asian Regionalism.” Asian Survey 50 (July/August 2010): 808-833.
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*Emmers, Ralf, and See Seng Tan. “The ASEAN Regional Forum and Preventive Diplomacy: Built to Fail?” Asian Security 7, no. 1 (2011): 44-60.
*Fravel, M. Taylor. “Territorial and Maritime Boundary Disputes in Asia.” In Oxord Handbook of International Relation of Asia, ed. Saadia M. Pekkanen, John Ravenhill, and Rosemary Foot, 524-546. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Fravel, M. Taylor. “Power Shifts and Escalation: Explaining China's Use of Force in Territorial Disputes.” International Security 32 (Winter 2008): 44-83.
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*Valencia, Mark J. “The East China Sea Disputes: History, Status, and Ways Forward.” Asian Perspective 38 (April-June 2014): 183-218.
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Hornat, Jan. "The Power Triangle in the Indian Ocean: China, India and the United States." Cambridge Review of International Affairs ahead-of-print (2014): 1-19.
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Students are expected to complete assigned readings (asterisked items) prior to class and to actively participate in class discussions. Each student will do five reading summaries. Written summaries should be posted on e-Learning (WM3) before 9:00 am, Thursday, two days before class meeting. The student is also required to write a term paper on a topic of your choice.
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| Textbook & Reference |
Breslin, Shaun, and Richard A Higgott, eds. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 4 vols. London: Sage, 2010. Connors, Michael K., Rémy Davison and Jorn Dösch. The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific, 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2012. Goldstein, Avery, and Edward Mansfield, eds. The Nexus of Economics, Security, and International Relations in East Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. *Pekkanen, Saadia M., John Ravenhill and Rosemary Foot, eds. The Oxford Handbook of International Relation of Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. (On Reserve) *Shambaugh, David, and Michael Yahunda, eds. International Relations of Asia, 2nd ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. Yahunda, Michael. The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific since 1945, 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2011. |
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