Week 1: Introduction and Syllabus Distribution (please read the syllabus and the week 2&4 readlings)

Week 2: Theoretical Components

• Readings

– Basic IR theories and structure. Shambaugh D. and M. Yahuda. Ch 1.

Week 3: Conference (no class)

Week 4: History and Structure of East Asia

• Readings

– History of East Asia. Shambaugh D. and M. Yahuda. Ch 2 by Kim.

– International Structure of East Asia. Shambaugh D. and M. Yahuda. Ch 3 by Acharya.

– Hierarchy and Anarchy in East Asia. David Kang. 2003. Getting Asia wrong: The need for new analytical framework. International Security 27, 4:57-81.

-David Lake. 2007. Escape from the state of nature: Authority and hierarchy in world politics. International Security 32, 1:44-79.(optional)

Week 5: Teacher's Day (no class)

Week 6: Mid Autum Festival (no class)

Week 7: The Strategy of the Secondary States in East Asia 

• Readings

–Lim, Darren, and Zack Cooper. 2015. "Reassessing Hedging: The Logic of Alignment in East Asia." Security Studies 24 (2): 696-727.

-Charles Chong-Han. Wu. 2016. Taiwan Hedging Strategy Against China-The Strategic Implications of Ma Yin-Jeou's Mainland Policy

Week 8: The Sino-US Competitions 

• Readings

-Richard Hass and David Sacks. 2020. “American Support for Taiwan Must Be Unambiguous: To Keep the Peace, Make Clear to China That Force Won’t Stand,” Foreign Affairs, 2 September.

-Bonnie S. Glaser, Michael J. Mazarr, Michael J. Glennon, Richard Haass, and David Sacks. 2020. “Dire Straits: Should American Support for Taiwan Be Ambiguous?” Foreign Affairs, 24 September.

-Charles Chong-Han Wu. 2021. The End of Washington's Strategic Ambiguity? The Debate over US Policy toward Taiwan. The China Review, Vol.21.no.2, p177-202

Week 9 The South China Sea Issues (1st paper due) 

• Readings

-Douglas Gibler. Territorial Peace. Ch2 &3

-Amitav Acharya, Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia-ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 1-42.

-Charles Chong-Han Wu. 2022. The Maritime Silk Road and Its Implications for China's Regional Policy. 

Week 14 (Make-up Class for Week 3)

Week 15 (Dec 8th~12th) Guest Speaker (Prof. Wang Yuan-Kang) 

• Readings

Week 16 The 2nd Paper Presentations (2nd paper due)

I. This course does not allow additional enrolment. 

This course has no desinged textbooks. The coursepack will be distributed in the first class.