Korea in International Relations
MA course, 4 credits (ECTS)
Fall semester 2014
Thursdays: 11.00-12.40
Class room: FT 309
Dr. YOUNGMI KIM
Department of International Relations and European Studies
Office: Nador ut. 15, Rm. 502
Ext. 2091
Email: kimy@ceu.hu
Course outline
The aim of this course is to introduce the international relations of Korea and East
Asia. The course is divided in two parts. The first provides an overview to the region.
An overview of East Asia during the 20th and early 21st centuries is first provided:
Attention is paid to state formation, regime types, democratization, and political
culture. The second part covers developments in the international politics of East Asia
since the end of the Cold War. Here the interplay between external and regional
powers are analyzed, alongside the foreign policies of the main actors in the region.
Special attention is also given to trends in regionalism (politics, security, economy).
Aims
The main aims of this course are the following:
provide an introduction to the domestic and international politics of Korea
and East Asia;
provide an overview of the regional policies and bilateral relationships of the
major powers (primarily the United States);
examine regional organizations and the changing nature of regional order;
discuss the main conflictual dynamics in the region (Taiwan, North Korea);
discuss post-Cold War continuities and changes.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able to:
be familiar with the political systems of Korea and the main neighbouring
countries;
explain the linkages between local, regional, and global developments and
their impact on East Asian politics;
analyze the foreign policies of the main East Asian states;
have an understanding of the factors facilitating and hindering regional
cooperation.
Assessment:
20% Class participation
20% Collective lecture notes (using Google doc or blog posting)
30% 1,000-word book review on Korean studies and IR
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30%: 1,500-word position paper
Collective lecture notes: It should be uploaded on the e-learning website every week
before the next lecture starts.
Assignments are to be uploaded on the e-learning website, http://e-learning.ceu.hu .
This course is offered to CEU, University of Bucharest, ELTE, Petrozavodsk
State University, Turku University, TSUC, METU, University of Vienna, IUCA,
Eurasian National University.
Recommended course textbooks
Huang, X. (2009) Politics in Pacific Asia. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Joseph, W (2010) Politics in China. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Acharya, A. and Goh, E. eds. (2008) Reassessing Security Cooperation in the AsiaPacific: Competition, Congruence, and Transformation. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Beeson, M. (2007) Regionalism & Globalization in East Asia. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Katzenstein, P.J. (2005) A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American
Imperium. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Background reading
Mellisen, J and Lee, S.J. eds. (2011). Public Diplomacy and Soft Power in East Asia.
New York: Palgrave and Macmillan.
Aggarwal, V. and Lee, S. (2011) Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific: The Role of Ideas,
Interests, and Domestic Institutions. London: Springer.
Lee, Y. (2011). Militants or Partisans: Labour Unions and Democratic Politics in
Korea and Taiwan. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Callahan, W. (2010) China: The Pessoptimist Nation. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Bercovitch, J. Huang, K. and Teng, C. eds. (2008). Conflict Management, Security
and Intervention in East Asia: Third-party Mediation and Intervention Between China
and Taiwan. Oxon: Routledge.
Emmers, R. (2010). Geopolitics and Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia.
Oxon: Routledge.
Kwak, T. and Joo, S. eds. (2010) Peace Regime Building on the Korean Peninsula
and Northeast Asian Security Cooperation. Surrey: Ashgate.
Schoenbaum, T. ed. (2008) Peace in Northeast Asia: Resolving Japan's Territorial
and Maritime Disputes with China, Korea and the Russian Federation. Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar.
Frost, E. L. (2008). Asia's New Regionalism. London: Lynne Reinner Publisher.
Kim, Y. (2011). The Politics of Coalition in Korea: Between Institutions and Culture.
London: Routledge.
Kim, B and Vogel, E (eds). (2011) The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of
South Korea. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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Shambaugh, D. and M. Yahuda (2008). International Relations of Asia. Plymouth,
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.Kaup, K. ed. (2007) Understanding Contemporary
Asia Pacific. Boulder: Rienner.
Jang, H.-J. (2008). Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies and the Threat to the
Developing World. London: Random House.
Acharya, A. (2009). Whose Ideas Matter?: Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism.
New York: Cornell University Press.
Acharya, A. (2008). Asia Rising: Who is leading? London, World Scientific.
Pempel, T. J. ed. (2005) Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press.
Shambaugh, D, ed. (2005) Power Shift: China and Asia’s New Dynamics. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Sutter, R. G. (2010). Chinese Foreign Relations: Power and Policy since the Cold
War. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Snyder, S. (2009). China's Rise and the Two Koreas: Politics, Economics, Security.
London: Lynne Reiner Publishers.
Li, M. (2009). Soft Power: China's Emerging Strategy in International Politics.
Lanham, Lexington Books.
Taylor, I. (2010). China's new role in Africa. London, Lynne Reinner Publishers.
Yasushi, W. and D. L. McConnell (2008). Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and
National Assets of Japan and the United States. New York, M.E. Sharpe
Vyas, U. (2010) Soft Power in Japan-China Relations: State, sub-state and non-state
relations. London: Routledge.
Tong, J. S. W. (2009). Revenge of the Forbidden City: The Suppression of the
Falungong in China, 1999-2005.Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dalton, R., Shin, D., and Chu, Y. (eds) (2008). Party Politics in East Asia: Citizens,
Elections and Democratic Development. Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publisher.
Zhang, Y. (2003). Pacific Asia: The Politics of Development. London: Routledge.
Yahuda, M. (2004) The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific. London:
RoutledgeCurzon, 2nd ed.
Ikenberry, G. J. and M. Mastanduno (2003). International Relations Theory and the
Asia-Pacific. New York Columbia University Press.
Kim, S.S., ed. (2004) The International Relations of Northeast Asia. Lanham:
Rowman and Littlefield.
Kim, H.-a. (2004) Korea's Development under Park Chung Hee: Rapid
industrialization 1961-79. New York: Rountledge Cruzon.
Scheiner, E. (2006) Democracy without competition in Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Carlson M.(2007). Money Politics in Japan: New Rules, Old Practices. London:
Lynne Reiner Publishers.
Roberts, T and Hite, A. (2007) The Globalization and Development Reader. Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing
Sassen, S. (1992).The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton: Princeton
University Press.
Bell, D. and Hahm, C. (2003) Confucianism for the Modern World. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Diamond, L. and Plattner, M. (2009) Democracy: A Reader. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press.
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Weekly Schedule
Wk Topic
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2
3
Notes
State formation and regional order: East
Asia in the twentieth century
One-party party system and politics:
China / NK
Democratization and multi-party system:
South Korea and Taiwan
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Political culture: The Confucian legacy
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From the 4 Dragons to the Asian Crisis
(and beyond)
The Korean Peninsula – security in East
Asia
Reading week
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7
8
9
China and Russia
Should North Korea be engaged or
contained?
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Soft Power in East Asia
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Approaches to Comparative Regionalism
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Is East Asia a region? Why is there no
‘Asian Union’?
Wrap-up
Debate
Weekly Readings
Week 1 State formation – East Asia in the 20th century
The lecture provides some background to East Asian politics and society by focusing
especially on issues of state-formation in the 20th century and the Cold War period.
Required readings
Shambaugh, D. and M. Yahuda (2008). International Relations of Asia. Plymouth,
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Ch. 2 Samuel Kim
Additional readings
Beeson, M. (2007) Regionalism & Globalization in East Asia. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, Ch. 1, 2.
Yahuda, M. (2004). Ch.1, 2.
Cohen, W (2000) ‘The Foreign Impact on East Asia’, in Merle Goldman and Gordon,
A. eds. (2000)(eds), Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1-22.
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Snyder, J (1991) Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition.
New York: Columbia UP, 112-152.
Alagappa, M. (1998) ‘International politics in Asia: The historical context’, in:
Alagappa, M. Asian security practice : material and ideational influences. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 65-114.
Week 2 One-party system – China / North Korea
The lecture highlights the central features of two important one-party systems in East
Asia, and explores how they have evolved over time.
Required reading
Lin, G. (2004) Leadership Transition, Intra-Party Democracy, and Institution Building
in China. Asian Survey, 44(2), 255-275.
Additional readings
Beja, J.P. (2009) The Massacre’s Long Shadow. Journal of Democracy, 20(3), 5-16.
Hsieh, J. F.S. (2003) Democratizing China. Journal of Asian and African Studies,
38(4/5), 377-391.
Zhao, S. (1998) Three Scenarios. Journal of Democracy, 9(1), 54-59.
Oksenberg, Michel (1998) Confronting a Classic Dilemma. Journal of Democracy,
9(1), 27-34.
Harding, H (1998) The Halting Advance of Pluralism. Journal of Democracy, 9(1),
11-17.
Dittmer, L. (2000) Informal Politics in East Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, Ch. 1, 5, 6, 10.
Huang, X. (2009), Ch. 2, 3.
Diamond, L. and Myers, R. H. (2001) Elections and Democracy in Greater China.
Oxford, Oxford University Press, Ch.5.
Week 3 Democratization in East Asia – South Korea and Taiwan
The lecture discusses the end of authoritarian rule in South Korea and Taiwan and
looks at the social and political forces behind democratization, as well as the hurdles
on the way to democracy.
Required readings
Kim, Y. (2008). Intra-party politics and minority coalition government in South
Korea. Japanese Journal of Political Science 9(3): 367-398.
Lee, Y. (2011). Militants or Partisans: Labour Unions and Democratic Politics in
Korea and Taiwan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, Ch.1: 1-11.
Additional readings
Kang W. (2013). Regional party system, causal attribution and economic voting in
new democracies: The case of the 2007 Korean presidential election. International
Political Science Review 34(2):173-190.
Kim, Y. (2011). The Politics of Colaition in Korea: Between Institutions and
Culture.London: Routledge.
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Kim, B and Vogel, E (eds). (2011) The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of
South Korea. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Kim, H and Sorensen, C (eds). (2011) Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era 19611979. Seattle: University of Washington Press
Yu, C.-h. (2005). The Evolving Party System in Taiwan, 1995.2004. Journal of Asian
and African Studies 40(1/2):105-123.
Kim, H.-a. (2004) Korea's Development under Park Chung Hee: Rapid
industrialization 1961-79. New York: Rountledge Cruzon.
Bouissou, J.-M. (2001) Party factions and the politics of coalition: Japanese politics
under the "system of 1955. Electoral Studies, 20(4), 581-602.
Yap, F. and Y. Kim (2008). Pathologies or Progress? Evaluating the effects of
Divided Government and Party Volatility. Japanese Journal of Political Science 9(3):
261-268.
Croissant, A. (2004) From transition to defective democracy: mapping Asian
democratization. Democratization, 11(5).
Huang, X. (2009), Ch. 9 (‘Modernization and Democracy’).
Tong, J. S. W. (2009). Revenge of the Forbidden City: The Suppression of the
Falungong in China, 1999-2005.Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Shin, D. and H. Shyu (1997) Political Ambivalence in South Korea and Taiwan.
Journal of Democracy, 8(3), 109-124.
Stockton, H. (2001) Political Parties, Party Systems, and Democracy in East Asia:
Lessons From Latin America. Comparative Political Studies, 34(1), 94-119.
Im, H. (2004) Faltering Democratic Consolidation in South Korea: Democracy at the
End of the 'Three Kims' Era. Democratization, 11(5), 179-198.
Shi, F. and Y. Cai (2006) Disaggregating the State: Networks and Collective
Resistance in Shanghai. China Quarterly, 314-332.
Pei, Minxin (1995) Creeping Democratization in China. Journal of Democracy, 6(4),
65-79.
Kim, S. (2003) Korea's Democratization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Week 4 Political Culture
Is there a distinctive Asian political culture? If so, what does it look like and how does
it matter in political, social, and economic relationships?
Required reading
Chan, S. C. (2011). Cultural Governance and Place-Making in Taiwan and China. The
China Quarterly, 206: 372-390.
Kim, Y. (2012) ‘Confucianism and coalition politics: Is Korean political behaviour
irrational?’, Journal of Northeast Asian History, 9(2): 5-32.
Additional readings
Ham, Chae-bong. (2004) The Ironies of Confucianism. Journal of Democracy, 15(3),
93-107.
Blondel, J. and T. Inoguchi (2002) Political Cultures Do Matter: Citizens and Politics
in Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia. Japanese Journal of Political
Science, 3(2), 151-171.
Hsieh, J.F.S. (2000) East Asian Culture and Democratic Transition, With Special
Reference to the Case of Taiwan. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 35(1), 29-42.
Dittmer, L. (2000) Informal Politics in East Asia, Introduction Ch1, 3, Conclusion.
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Hahm, Chae-bong (2006) Confucianism and the concept of liberty. Asia-Europe
Journal, 4, 477-489.
Eisenstadt, S. N. (2000) Trust and Institutional Dynamics in Japan: The Construction
of Generalized Particularistic Trust. Japanese Journal of Political Science, 1(1), 5372.
Inoguchi, T. (2000) Social Capital in Japan. Japanese Journal of Political Science,
1(1), 73-112.
Fukuyama, F. (1995) Trust: The Social Virtue and the Creation of Prosperity. London:
Penguin Books, 3-145.
Week 5 Political Economy – The Four Dragons, the Asian Crisis and beyond
The model of the developmental state features prominently in the lecture, which
provides an overview of the rise of capitalism in East Asia.
Required reading
Blankenburg, S. and Palma J. G. (2009) Introduction: the global financial crisis.
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 33(4): 531-538.
Crotty, J. (2009) Structural causes of the global financial crisis: a critical assessment
of the ‘new financial architecture’. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 33, 563–580
Khan, S., Islam, F., Ahmed, S. (2005) The Asian Crisis: An Economic Analysis of the
Causes. Journal of Developing Areas, 39(1), 169-190.
Additional readings
Jang, H.-J. (2008). Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies and the Threat to the
Developing World. London: Random House. Ch.1.
King, M.R. (2001) Who triggered the Asian financial crisis? Review of International
Political Economy, 8(3), 438-466.
Kim, H.-a. (2004) Korea's Development under Park Chung Hee: Rapid
industrialization 1961-79. New York: Rountledge Cruzon.
Bowles, P. (2002) Asia's post-crisis regionalism: bringing the state back in, keeping
the (United) States out. Review of International Political Economy, 9(2), 244-270.
Zhang, Y. (2003) Pacific Asia: The Politics of Development. London: Routledge,
Ch.3, 32-46.
Gills, B.K. (2000) The crisis of post war East Asian capitalism: American power,
democracy and the vicissitudes of globalization. Review of International Studies,
26(3), 381-403.
Huang, X. (2009), Ch. 5 (The state and the economy).
Dalton, R. J. and D. C. Shin (2006) Citizens, Democracy, and Markets Around the
Pacific Rim. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Ch 1.
Kwon, H.J. (2005) Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia.
Development and Change, 36(3), 477-497.
Peng, D. (2000) The Changing Nature of East Asia as an Economic Region. Pacific
Affairs, 73(2), 171-191.
Islam, I. and A. Chowdhury (2001) The Political Economy of East Asia: Post-Crisis
Debates. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wenli, Z. (2001) International Political Economy from a Chinese Angle. Journal of
Contemporary China, 10(26), 45-54.
Hughes, C.W. (2000) Japanese policy and the East Asian currency crisis: abject defeat
or quiet victory? Review of International Political Economy, 7(2), 219-253.
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Mo, S., Haggard, J. (2000) The political economy of the Korean financial crisis.
Review of International Political Economy, 7(2), 192-218.
Bevacqua, R. (1998) Whither the Japanese model? The Asian economic crisis and the
continuation of Cold War politics in the Pacific Rim. Review of International Political
Economy, 5(3), 410-423.
Week 6 The Korean Peninsula and Security in East Asia
The lecture seeks to go beyond the stereotypical image of a ‘reclusive country with
the nookes’ and provides some background to North Korea.
Required reading
International Crisis Group (2007) After the North Korea Nuclear Breakthrough:
Compliance or Confrontation? Policy Briefing No. 62.
Additional readings
Mitchell B. Reiss (2006) A Nuclear-armed North Korea: Accepting the
‘Unacceptable’. Survival, 48(4), 97-109.
Smith, Hazel (2000) Bad, Mad, Sad or Rational Actor? Why the Securitization
Paradigm Makes for Poor Policy Analysis of North Korea. International
Affairs 76(3), 593-617.
Jae-Ho Chung (2001) South Korea Between Eagle and Dragon: Perceptual
Ambivalence and Strategic Dilemma. Asian Survey, 41(5), 777-796.
Noland, M. and Bark, T. (2003) The Strategic Importance of US-Korean Economic
Relations. NBR Special Report, No.4. Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research.
Shambaugh, David (2003) China and the Korean Peninsula: Playing for the Long
Term. Washington Quarterly, 26(2), 43-56.
Bruce Cumings (1997) Korea’s Place in the Sun. New York: Norton, 237-264.
Victor Cha (2000) Abandonment, Entrapment, and Neoclassical Realism in Asia:
The United States, Japan, and Korea. International Studies Quarterly, 44(2) 261-291.
Ming, Liu (2003) China and the North Korean Crisis: Facing Test and
Transition. Pacific Affairs, 76(3), 347-373.
Michael R. Chambers (2005) Dealing with a Truculent Ally: A Comparative
Perspective on China’s Handling of North Korea. Journal of East Asian Studies, 5,
35-75.
Ann Wu (2005) What China Whispers to North Korea. Washington Quarterly, 28(2),
35-48.
Camroux, D. and Okfen, N. (2004) Introduction: 9/11 and US-Asia relations: towards
a new 'New World Order'?. Pacific Review, 17(2), 163-177.
Tay, S. S. C. (2004) Asia and the United States after 9/11: Primacy and Partnership in
the Pacific. Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, 28(1), 113-132.
Kakihara, K. (2003) The Post-9/11 Paradigm Shift and Its Effects on East Asia.
Institute for International Policy Studies, 292E, 1-15.
Cainkar, L. (2004). Introduction: Global Impacts of September 11. Comparative
Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 24, 155-158.
Lee, K. Y. (2003). Asia and Europe after September 11th. Asia Europe Journal 1, 9-12.
Hunter, R.E. (2003) After 9/11: US policy in northeast Asia. Asia-Pacific Review,
10(1), 1-20.
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Campbell, K.M. and Tatsumi, Y. (2002) In the aftermath of the storm: US foreign
policy in the wake of 9/11 and its implications for the Asia-Pacific region. AsiaPacific Review, 9(2), 2002, 31-44.
Rozman, G. and Rozman, N. (2003) Need help against “evil”. Asian Survey, 43(1), 114.
Pollack, J.D. (2002) Chinese security in the post-11 September world: implications
for Asia and the Pacific. Asia-Pacific Review, 9(2), 12-30.
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Reading Week
Week 8 Russia and China
The lecture examines the interplay between Russia and China in the Central and East
Asian regions.
Required reading
Kuchins, A. (2007) Russia and China: The Ambivalent Embrace. Current History,
107(702), 321-327.
Fumagalli, M. (2012) ‘South Korea’s Engagement in Central Asia from the End of the
Cold War to the New Asia Initiative’, Journal of Northeast
Asian History, 9(2): 69-97.
Additional reading
Lo, B. (2006), Russia and China: Common interests, contrasting perceptions. CLSA
Asian Geopolitics Report, Shanghai, May, 1-31.
Torbakov, I. (2007) The West, Russia, and China in Central Asia: What Kind of
Game is being played in the region? Transition Studies Review, 14(1), 152-162.
Shlapentokh, D. (2007) China in the Russian mind today: Ambivalence and
Defeatism. Europe-Asia Studies, 59(1), 1-21.
Lo, B. (2004) The Long Sunset of Strategic Partnership. International Affairs, 80(2),
295-309.
Lo, B. (2005) Pacific Russia and Asia: An edgy engagement. CLSA Asian Geopolitics
Report, Shanghai, September.
Week 9 Should North Korea be engaged or contained? - Debate
Required readings
Snyder et al.(2010) U.S. Policy Toward the Korean Peninsula. Independent Task Force
Report No. 64. Council on Foreign Relations.
Bates Gill (2011) China’s North Korea Policy: Assessing Interests and Influences.
Special Report. United States Institute of Peace.
Cha, Victor and Kang, David (2004) Can North Korea be Engaged? An Exchange
between Victor Cha and David Kang. Survival, 46(2), 89-108
Additional readings
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Cha, Victor D. (2002) Hawk Engagement and Preventive Defense on the Korean
Peninsula. International Security, 27(1), 40-78.
Ming, Liu (2003) China and the North Korean Crisis: Facing Test and
Transition. Pacific Affairs, 76(3), 347-373.
Michael R. Chambers (2005) Dealing with a Truculent Ally: A Comparative
Perspective on China’s Handling of North Korea. Journal of East Asian Studies, 5,
35-75.
Week 10 Soft Power in East Asia
What is Soft Power? How does China tries to exercise it?
Required readings
Yasushi, W. and McConnell, D.L. (eds) (2008) Soft Power Superpowers. London:
M.E. Sharpe, Introduction.
Additional readings
Li, M. (2009) Soft Power: China’s Emerging Strategy in International Politics.
Lanham: Lexington, Ch.1.
Li, M. (2009) Soft Power: China’s Emerging Strategy in International Politics.
Lanham: Lexington.
CSIS (2009) Chinese Soft Power and Its Implications for the United States.
Competition and Cooperation in the Developing World. Washington: CSIS.
Vyas, U. (2010) Soft Power in Japan-China Relations: State, sub-state and non-state
relations. London: Routledge.
Week 11 Approaches to Comparative Regionalism
Required readings
Fawn, R. (2009). "Regions and their study: where from, what for and where to?"
Review of International Studies35: 5-34.
Additional readings
Fawcett, L. (2004). "Exploring regional domains: a comparative history of
regionalism."International Affairs80(3): 429-446.
Sbragia, A. (2008). "Review Article: Comparative Regionalism: What might it be?"
Journal of Common Market Studies46(s1): 29-49.
Kubicek, P. (2009) ‘The Commonwealth of Independent States: an example of failed
regionalism?’ in Fawn Ed., Globalising the Regional, Regionalising the
Global Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
AcharyaA. and Johnston, A.Eds. (2007) Crafting Cooperation: Regional International
Institutions in Comparative Perspective Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.Introduction and Conclusion.
Pempel, T. J. (2005). Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region. New
York, Cornell University Press, Ch.1-2.
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Mark Beeson (2005) “Rethinking regionalism: Europe and East Asia in Comparative
historical perspective”. Journal of European Public Policy, 12(6), pp. 969-985.
Walter Mattli (1999), The Logic of Regional Integration. Europe and Beyond,
Cambridge: CUP, pp. 41-67.
Monty G. Marshall (1999) Third World War: System, Process, and Conflict
Dynamics Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Ch.6
Andrew Wyatt-Walter, ’Regionalism, Globalization, andWorld Economic Order’,
in:L. Fawcett and A. Hurrell (1995, eds.) Regionalism in World Politics: Regional
Organization and International Order, Oxford: OUP.
Week 12 Is East Asia a region? Why is there no ‘Asia Union’? / Wrap-up
What keeps East Asia together? What constitutes a region? These are some of the
questions that lead the discussion in this session. The lecture sets the process of
regional integration in Asia in broader comparative perspective, and also asks why no
equivalent of European Union has developed.
Required reading
Beeson, M. (2007) Regionalism & Globalization in East Asia. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan. Ch. 1 (Conceptualising East Asia)
Additional readings
Kim, S. S. (2004). Regionalization and Regionalism in East Asia. Journal of East
Asian Studies 4(1), 39-67.
Katzenstein, P.J. (2005) A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American
Imperium. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Hemmer, C. and Katzenstein, P. (2002) Why Is There No NATO in Asia? Collective
Identity, Regionalism, and the Origins of Multilateralism. International Organization
56(3), 575-607.
Acharya, A (2008), ‘Regional Institutions and Security in the Asia-Pacific: Evolution,
Adaptation, and Prospects for Transformation’ in Amitav Acharya and Evelyn Goh
eds., Reassessing Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific: Competition, Congruence,
and Transformation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 19-40.
Ravenhill, J. (2007), ‘Asia’s New Economic Institutions’, in Vinod K. Aggarwal and
Koo, M. G. (eds.) Asia’s New Institutional Architecture: Evolving Structures for
Managing Trade, Financial and Security Relations. Girona: Springer, 35-58.
Huang, X. (2009) Ch. 10 (‘Globalization, regionalism and the myth of the Asian
century’)
Beeson, M. (2007) Regionalism & Globalization in East Asia. New York: Palgrave.
Ch 8 (‘East Asian Futures’).
Kim, Y. (1997) Asian-style Democracy: A Critique from East Asia. Asian Survey
37(12), 1119-1134.
Berger, T. (2000) Set for stability? Prospects for conflict and co-operation in East
Asia. Review of International Studies, 26(3), 405-428.
Katzenstein, P. (2000) Regionalism and Asia. New Political Economy, 5(3), 353-368.
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