Weekly Activities

Week 1 (Feb. 23): Course Introduction

Read two news analyses together in class.

Discussion:

     What background knowledge do you need to understand the article?

     What background knowledge do you need to write a solid response?

Pairing and case selection

Week 2 (March 1): Basic Concepts

1. Aarie Glas and Marion Laurence, “Changing Norms in Practice: Noninterference in the UN and ASEAN”


2. Michael N. Barnett Martha Finnemore, “Political Approaches”, The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations (2 ed.) Edited by Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws

Week 3 (March 8): UN、Collective Security、Peacekeeping

1. Thomas G. Weiss Sam Daws, “The United Nations: Continuity and Change”


2. Corinne Bara, “UN Peacekeeping”

Week 4 (March 15): UN、Human Security、Refugee、Terrorism、Climate Change

1. Haruko SATOH, Fighting for a Global Community in a Post-COVID World


2. Fabien Merz, The United Nations and Counterterrorism  

Week 5 (March 22): UN and Taiwan

        Professor’s note

Visit of Students from Chulalongkorn University, led by Professor Paul Busbarat

Week 6 (March 29): Korean Peninsula Security Issues and the United Nations

        Guest Lecture: Dr. Hoo Chiew-Ping

(Co-Founder of East Asian International Relations Caucus, Malaysia)

Week 7 (April 5): Spring Break, No Class

Week 8 (April 12): WHO、UNCLOS

        Steven Menashi, Politics of the WHO

        Daniel S. Cheever, Politics of the UNCLOS

Week 9 (April 19)

Individual Presentations (I): the global approach to manage the case you select.

        Students will comment to each other

Week 10 (April 26): mid-term exam.

1.   The UN in the Cambodia conflict: UNTAC

Take home exam、open book、essay questions (No Use of AI)

Questions will be sent at 9:00-9:10am.

Answers has to be sent out to cllee@nccu.edu.tw by 12:00 noon.

Week 11 (May 3): Taiwan Security and Regional Organization

Guest Lecturer: Guermantes Lailari, Lt Col, USAF (ret)

(Taiwan Fellow, Institute of National Defense and Security Research)

SEATO and Taiwan Security

        Dr. Charles Chou, Former Secretary General of CTPECC, will sit in.

Week 12 (May 10): ASEAN and ASEAN-centered security arrangements

        ARF、ADMM、ADMM Plus

        How ASEAN Helped Southeast Asia

        Tale Two Insstitutions

Week 13 (May 17): ASEAN Approaches to transnational issues

Terrorism、Cybersecurity、Climate Change

     human rights, health security, HADR

        At SLD 2023…

        QUAD and HADR

        Internet Governance and ASEAN

Week 14 (May 24): Individual Presentations (2): Regional Approaches

        Students will comment to each other

Week 15 (May 31) Taiwan’s Participation in Regional Intergovernmental Cooperation

        Dr. Charles Chou, Former Secretary General of CTPECC

Week 16 (June 7): Final Exam.

1. Rebecca Barber, “The case for UN-supported, ASEAN-led negotiations on Myanmar”


2. Amitav Acharya, “Multilateralism and the Changing World Order”

In class、open book、essay questions

Week 17 (June 14) Group Work (no formal class)

You will make your own arrangement to meet each other and show me the pictures or video of working together.

Week 18 (June21)

Final Joint Paper Due by 23:59, June 21

No need to submit your individual papers.

Files should be sent to cllee@nccu.edu.tw

Class Evaluation:

1. Attendance: 10%,


2. Participation in In-Class activities: 30% (Grading will depend on the comprehension of reading assignments and contribution to class, not the frequency of speaking up.)


3. Individual Presentations: 20% (10% each)


4. Midterm exam、Final exam: 20% (10% each)


5. Final written group report (600-1000 words): 20% (same to both in the group)


6. No use of AI