SemesterSpring Semester, 2025
DepartmentJunior Class of Department of Political Science Senior Class of Department of Political Science
Course NameThe Title of the Course: Reading a Contemporary Well-known Book of Political Science
InstructorTUNG KUO-YU
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule



Week 1: Introduction of the course, the key authors of assigned-reading books



Week 2:  The Question of World Order, the Introduction part of Henry Kissinger's World Order (2014)



Week 3: Chapter 1 of Kissinger's World Order (2014)



Week 4: Chapter 2 of Kissinger's World Order (2014)



Week 5: Chapter 3 of Kissinger's World Order (2014)



Week 6: Chapter 4 of Kissinger's World Order (2014)



Week 7: a homework for writing a report of the 2023 Israeli-Palestinian war 



Week 8: Discussion of the homework report



Week 9: Mid-term Exam.



Week 10: Chapter 5 of Kissinger's World Order (2014)



Week 11: Chapter 6 of Kissinger's World Order (2014)



Week 12:  Chaper 7 of Kissinger's World Order (2014)



Week 13: Chapter 8 of Kissinger's World Order (2014)



Week 14: Chapter 9 of Kissinger's World Order (2014)



Week 15: Conclusion of Kissinger's World Order (2014)



Week 16: Chapter 2 & 5 of Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (2011)



Week 17: Final Exam.



Week 18: Self-reading of Chapter 9 of Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (2011)








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Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

To be decided


Requirement/Grading

mid-term exam: 35%; final exam: 40%; class participation: 25%


Textbook & Reference

Henry Kissinger, World Order (New York, Penguin,2014)



Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order ( New York, Simon & Schuster, 2011)


Urls about Course
Chapter 4 of John J. Mearsheimer, The Great Delusion (New Haven, Yale University, 2018)
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