Spring 2005
Graduate School of International Studies
Yonsei University
International Political Economy
Instructor: Jongryn Mo
Office Hours: 1:00-5:00 p.m. on Wednesdays
jrmo@yonsei.ac.kr
Course Website: http://cafe.daum.net/jrmo
(O) 2123-4008
Purpose: This course introduces students to the systematic study of East Asian political
economy and its implications for U.S./Korean foreign policy. The course has three basic goals:
- To familiarize students with major issues of East Asian political economy and security
- To equip students with the ability to evaluate competing arguments on U.S./Korean
responses
- To develop action-based proposals for solving specific policy problems
Course Requirements: The course requirements consist of a mid-term exam (30%), a final
exam (30%), one policy brief (30%), and class participation (10%).
Readings: The course readings will be drawn from a number of books and articles. The course
reader will be available for purchase at the Copy Shop.
Other readings marked with “*” in
front of the title can be found in the course website.
Course Schedule
Week 1: Economics, Politics, and Strategy
Lecture Note on Grand Strategy and the World Economy
Lecture Note on Creativity and Education
Part I: Grand Strategy and the International Economy
Week 2: Fukuyama and His Critics
*Fukuyama, Francis. 1989. “The End of History?” The National Interest, 18 (Summer): 3-18.
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*Samuel Huntington. 1993. “The Clash of Civilizations?” Foreign Affairs, (Summer).
Mearsheimer, John. 2001. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. Chapter 10.
Week 3: Grand Strategy and East Asia
Brzezinski, Zbigniew. 1997. The Grand Chess Board: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic
Imperatives. Chapter 6.
Kissinger, Henry. 2001. Does America Need a Foreign Policy? New York: Touchstone. Chapter
4.
*Shambaugh, David. “China’s Military Views the World: Ambivalent Security,” International
Security, 24:3 (Winter 1999/2000).
Michael J Green. “The Forgotten Player.” The National Interest, Summer 2000, 42-49.
Eberstadt, Nicholas. “Our Other Korea Problem.” The National Interest, Fall 2002.
Week 4: East Asian Regional Economy
*Cummings, Bruce.1984. “The Origins and Development of the Northeast Asian Political
Economy.” International Organization.
Haggard, Stephan. 2001. “Politics, Institutions, and Globalization: The Aftermath of the Asian
Financial Crisis.” Asian American Review, 19: 71-98.
*MacIntyre, Andrew and Barry Naughton. 2002. “The Decline of a Japan-led Model of the East
Asian Economy.” Mimeo.
Rozman, Gilbert. “Can Confucianism Survive in an Age of Universalism and Globalization?”
Pacific Affairs, Spring 2002.
(Supplements)
Yoichi Funabashi. “The Asianization of Asia.” Foreign Affairs, November/December 1993
Part II: Analytical Frameworks for Developing Foreign Policy Alternatives
Week 5: Foreign Policy Analysis I
De Mesquita, Bruce Bueno. Principles of International Politics. Chapters 5 and 7.
*Mo, Jongryn and Kyu Sup Hahn. 2005. “Public Diplomacy and North Korea Policy.”
Forthcoming in Journal of East Asian Studies.
Week 6: Foreign Policy Analysis II
Baron, David. Business and the Environment. Chapters 7-8.
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Part III: East Asian Market Reforms
Week 7: What is the Market Economy?
*Cha, Dongse and Jongryn Mo. 2003. “Economic Values and the Development of a Market
Economy: A Conceptual Framework and a Korean Case Study.” Mimeo.
*The World Bank. 2002. World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for Markets.
Chapter 1.
(Supplements)
North, Douglas. 1999. “Institutions and Economic Growth: A Historical Introduction.” In
International Political Economy, eds. Jeffrey Frieden and David Lake.
*De Long, James Bradford. 1989. “The Protestant Ethic Revisited: A Twenty-Century Look.”
Mimeo.
Week 8: East Asian Capitalism
The World Bank. 1993. The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy. New York:
Oxford University Press. Overview.
Paul Krugman, “The Myth of Asia’s Miracle.” Foreign Affairs.
“In Praise of Rules: A Survey of Asian Business,” The Economist, April 5. 2001.
“The Weakness Link: A Survey of Asian Finance,” The Economist, February 6, 2003
(Supplements)
Radelet, Steven and Jeffrey Sachs. “The East Asian Financial Crisis: Diagnosis, Remedies,
Prospects.” Brookings Papers in Economic Activity 1 (1998): 1-74.
Haggard, Stephan and Jongryn Mo. “The Political Economy of the Korean Financial Crisis.”
Review of International Political Economy.
Haggard, Stephan. 2001. “Politics, Institutions and Globalization: The Aftermath of the Asian
Financial Crisis.” American Asian Review, 19: 71-98.
Week 9: Mid-Term Exam
Week 10: Global Regime for Promoting Better Economic Governance
Rodrik, Dani. “Governance of Economic Liberalization.” In Governance for the Twenty-first
Century, eds. Joseph Nye and Donahue. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution.
“A Survey of Global Finance,” The Economist,” January 30, 1999.
*Kim. Jooyoung and Joongi Kim. 2001. “Shareholder Activism in Korea.” Journal of Korean Law.
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*Florini, Ann. “Business and Global Governance.”
(Supplements)
“Globalization and Its Critics,” The Economist, September 27, 2001.
Slaughter, Ann-Marie. “Governing the Global Economy through Government Networks.”
Part III: Advancing East Asian Democracy
Week 11: Human Rights, the Rule of Law and Democracy
Zakaria, Fareed. 2004. The Future of Freedom. Chapter 1.
Sorensen, Georg. 1993. Democracy and Democratization. Westview Press. Chapter 1.
Janies, Mark. 1999. An Introduction to International Law. Aspen Law and Business. Chapter 8.
Potter, et al. Democratization. Chapter 1.
Carothers, Thomas. 2002. “The End of the Transition Paradigm.” Journal of Democracy 13: 5-21.
(Supplements)
*Hager, Barry. 2000. The Rule of Law: A Lexicon for Policy Makers. The Mansfield Center for
Pacific Affairs.
Przeworski, Adam and Michael Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, and Ferdinando Limongi. 1996.
“What Makes Democracies Endure?” Journal of Democracy, 7.1: 39-55.
Week 12: East Asian Human Rights and Democracies
Zakaria, Fareed. “Culture is Destiny: A Conversation with Lee Kwan Yew.” Foreign Affairs,
November/December 1994, 73(2): 109-126.
Pei, Minxin. “China’s Governance Crisis.” Foreign Affairs. September/October 2002
One on North Korean regime and human rights
Mo, Jongryn. “Political Culture and Legislative Gridlock: The Politics of Economic Reform in PreCrisis Korea.” 2001. Comparative Political Studies.
Karel van Wofgren. “Japan’s Non-Revolution.” Foreign Affairs, September/October, 1993, 72:
54-65.
Week 13: Promoting Human Rights and Democracy as Foreign Policy
Steiner, Henry and Philip Alston. Human Rights in Context: Laws, Politics, and Morals. Oxford
University Press. Chapter 13, “Enforcement by States Against Violator States.”
Nye, Joseph S. 2002. The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower
Can’t Go It Alone. Oxford University Press. Chapter 5.
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The Bush Doctrine
(Supplements)
Huntington, Samuel. Political Order in Changing Societies. Chapter 1.
Kirpatrick, Jean. “Dictatorships and Double Standards.” Commentary, November 1979.
*Carothers, Thomas. “The Clinton Record on Democracy Promotion.”
“From Helsinki to Pyongyang,” The Wall Street Journal, January 17, 2003.
Korey, William. “The CSCE and Human Rights: A New Chapter for Helsinki.” The New Leader,
August 6-20, 1990.
Week 14: Global Campaigns for Human Rights and Democracy
Chinkin, Christine. 2000. “Human Rights and the Politics of Representation: Is There a Role for
International Law.” In The Role of Law in International Politics, ed. Michael Byers. Oxford.
Rich, Roland. 2001. “Bringing Democracy into International Law.” Journal of Democracy, 12: 2034.
Palmer, Mark. 2003. Breaking the Real Axis of Evil. Chapters 3, 4 and 7.
(Supplements)
Galtung, Frederik. “A Global Network to Curb Corruption: The Experience of Transparency
International.”
Kumar, Chetan. “Transnational Networks and Campaigns for Democracy.”
Week 15: Student Presentations
Week 16: Final Examination
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