East Asia in International Relations
MA course, 4 credits (8 ECTS)
Fall semester 2014
Tuesdays and Thursdays: 11.00-12.40pm
Classroom: TBA
Dr. YOUNGMI KIM
Department of International Relations and European Studies
Office: TBA
Office hours: Tuesday 1:30 -3:10pm, Thursday 1:30-3:10pm
Ext. 2091
Email: kimy@ceu.hu
Teaching Assistant: TBA
Course outline
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the international relations of 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 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 is analyzed, alongside the foreign policies of the main actors in the region.
Special attention is also given to trends in Asian regionalism (politics, security,
economy).
Note: EA in IR is offered jointly with ‘Korea in International Relations’ – a course supported
by the Korea Foundation ‘Global E-school in Eurasia’ Project, launched at CEU in 2012.
This means that classes held on Tuesdays focus on East Asia, and those on Thursdays zoom
in on the Korean Peninsula with a focus on either the domestic or foreign policy of South and
North Korea. The Thursday classes are connected online and in real time, via Bluejean, to
other universities members of the KF Global E-School consortium. These include ELTE
(Hungary), Paris-Diderot (France), the University of Vienna (Austria), the Middle East
Technical University/METU in Ankara (Turkey), the American University of Central
Asia/AUCA in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), and the Tajik State University of Commerce in
Dushanbe (Tajikistan) etc..
Aims
The main aims of this course are the following:
- provide an introduction to the domestic and international politics of 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);
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- 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 the main East Asian 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:
10% : Class attendance and presentations
10% : Collective lecture note-taking (using Googledocs); group activity including
group forum on the e-learning website, Debate
20% : 1,000-word book review
30% : 1,000-word position paper on the debate topic or Electoral Notes
30% : 3,000-word essay
*Seminar presentation: Presenters are required to submit their presentation outline to
the instructor and the TA 3 days before the class.
*Collective lecture note-taking: It should be uploaded on the e-learning website (and
sent to the TA) every week before the next lecture starts.
*Book review due: Tuesday 14 October Midnight (books on Asian politics or books
listed in the course syllabus)
*Position Paper or Electoral Notes: Thursday 13 November Midnight
Position paper on the debate topic (Should North Korea be engaged or contained?) or
Electoral notes in EA
*Essay deadline: Thursday 11 December Midnight
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.
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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.
Shambaugh, D. and M. Yahuda (2008). International Relations of Asia. Plymouth,
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.Kaup, K. ed. (2007) Understanding Contemporary
Asia Pacific. Boulder: Rienner.
Shin, G.W and Chang, P. (2011). South Korean Social Movements: From Democracy
to Civil Society. London: Routledge.
Cha, V. (2012). The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future. New York:
Harper Collins Publisher.
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.
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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.
Weekly Schedule
WK
1-1
1-2
2-1
2-2
3-1
3-2
Topic
Notes
23 Sept Introduction – Modern history in EA and
Korea
25 Sept State formation and regional order: East K, E-school
Asia in the twentieth century
30 Sept Forms of government
2 Oct
One-party party system and politics: China K, E-school
/ NK
7 Oct
Dominant party system in Japan
9 Oct
Democratization and multi-party system: K, E-school
South Korea and Taiwan
4-1
14 Oct
Electoral systems and Social cleavages
4-2
16 Oct
Political culture: The Confucian legacy
5-1
21 Oct
Do ‘Asian values’ exist?
5-2
23 Oct
6-1
28 Oct
6-2
30 Oct
K, E-school
Debate (Double class
with WK 6-1, The US
in EA)
15th Oct, Book Review
Deadline
From the 4 Dragons to the Asian Crisis K, E-school – Bank
(and beyond)
Holiday in Hungary
Region-builder or spoiler? The US in East (Class to be combined
Asia
with WK 5-1) 21st Oct
Soft power in East Asia
K, E-school
Hyung Seok Kang
Kang_Hyungseok@ceu-
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budapest.edu
7-1
4 Nov
7-2
6 Nov
8-1
11 Nov The Korean Peninsula – security in East
Asia
13 Nov Should North Korea be engaged or
contained?
8-2
READING WEEK
No Class
No Class
9-1
18 Nov The Rise of China and the neighbours
9-2
20 Nov China and Russia
K, E-school, Debate
13th Nov. Position Paper
or Electoral Note
Deadline
K, E-school, MF
10-1
25 Nov China and Taiwan
10-2 27 Nov Global cities in East Asia
11-1
2 Dec
11-2
4 Dec
12-1
9 Dec
12-2 11 Dec
K, E-school
Norms, Culture and Foreign Policy: The
ASEAN Way
Approaches to Comparative Regionalism
K, E-school
Political and Economic Regionalism
Is East Asia a region? Why is there no
‘Asian Union’?
Wrap-up session
K, E-school
18th Dec. Final paper
Deadline
Weekly Readings
Week 1-1 Introduction
What is East Asia? Why does it matter?
Course Expectations and overview; Assessment and assignments.
Required reading
Huang, X. (2009) Politics in Pacific Asia, Ch. 1.
Shambaugh, D. and M. Yahuda (2008). International Relations of Asia. Plymouth,
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Ch. 1
Additional readings
Haggard, S. (2004) The Balance of Power, Globalization, and Democracy:
International Relations Theory in Northeast Asia. Journal of East Asian Studies, 4(1),
1-38.
Kim, S. S. (2004) Regionalization and Regionalism in East Asia. Journal of East
Asian Studies, 4(1), 39-67.
Yahuda, M. (2004) The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific (2nd ed). London:
RoutledgeCurzon, Ch.1, 2.
Week 1-2 State formation – East Asia in the 20th century
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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.
The lecture also assesses some of the changes brought to the region by the end of the
Cold War, and pays special attention to the evolving role of Japan, the rise of China,
the changing dynamics between the United States and its allies in East Asia, as well as
change in the domestic arenas.
Required readings
Shambaugh, D. and M. Yahuda (2008). International Relations of Asia. Plymouth,
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Ch. 2 Samuel Kim
Beeson, M. (2007) Regionalism & Globalization in East Asia. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, Ch. 3.
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.
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.
Christensen, T. (2006) Fostering Stability or Creating a Monster? The Rise of China
and U.S. Policy toward East Asia. International Security, 31(1), 81-126.
Berger, T (2000), Set for Stability? Prospects for Conflict and Cooperation in East
Asia. Review of International Studies, 26(3), 405-428.
Friedberg, A. (1994) Ripe for Rivalry: Prospects for Peace in a Multipolar Asia.
International Security, 18(3), 5-33.
Christensen, T (1999) China, The US-Japan Alliance, And The Security Dilemma In
East Asia. International Security, 23(4), 49-80.
Kang, D (2003) Getting Asia Wrong: The Need for New Analytical Frameworks.
International Security, 27(4), 57-85.
Amitav Acharya (2004), Will Asia’s Past Be Its Future? International Security, 28(3),
149-164.
Ross, R.S. (1999) The Geography of Peace: East Asia in the Twenty-first Century.
International Security, 23(4), 81-118.
Yahuda, M. (2004) Ch.1.
Zhang, Y. (2003) Pacific Asia: The Politics of Development. London: Routledge,
Ch.1, 2.
Week 2-1 Forms of government
The lecture provides differences in the design of government systems and their impact
on the policy process. It also compares systems of parliamentary and presidential
government. It focuses on the regime survival: minority government/ divided
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government and compares and contrast forms of centralised and decentralised systems
of government.
Required readings
Mainwaring, S. (1993). "Presidentialism, Multipartism and Democracy: The Difficult
Combination." Comparative Political Studies 26(2): 198-228.
Kim, Y. (2008). "Explaining the minority coalition government and governability in
South Korea: A review essay." Korea Observer 39(1): 59-84.
Additional readings
Stepan, A. and C. Skach (1993). "Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic
Consolidation: Parliamentarism versus Presidentialism." World Politics 46(1): 1-22.
Elgie, R. (2004). "Semi-Presidentialism: Concepts, Consequences and Contesting
Explanations." Political Studies Review 2(3): 314-330
Cheibub, J. A. (2002). "Minority Governments, Deadlock Situations, and The
Survival of Presidential Democracies." Comparative Political Studies 35(3): 284-312.
Linz, J. J. (1990). "The Perils of Presidentialism." Journal of Democracy 1(1): 51-69.
Elgie, R. (2001). Divided Government in Comparative Perspective. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Mainwaring, S. (1993). "Presidentialism, Multipartism and Democracy: The Difficult
Combination." Comparative Political Studies 26(2): 198-228.
Elgie, R. (2007) Varieties of semi-presidentialism and their impact on nascent
democracies. Taiwan Journal of Democracy, 3(2): 53-71.
Linz, J.J. (1990) The virtues of parliamentarism. Journal of Democracy, 1(4): 84-91.
Lijphart, A. (1999). Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in
Thirty-six Countries. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Week 2-2 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.
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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 3-1 One-party dominant system in Japan
Democracy has come in different moments in time in East Asia, from an early start in
post-war Japan to a more recent process in Korea and Taiwan. The emergence of a
one-party dominant rule in Japan (under the LDP) is examined.
Required readings
Scheiner, E. (2006) Democracy without competition in Japan. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, Ch.2.
Additional readings
Laver, M. and J. Kato (2001) Dynamics Approaches to Government Formation and
the Genetic Instability of Decisive Structures in Japan. Electoral Studies, 20(4), 509527.
Kato, J. And Y. Kannon (2008) Coalition Governments, Party Switching, and
the Rise and Decline of Parties: Changing Japanese Party Politics since 1993.
Japanese Journal of Political Science, 9 (3) 341–365.
Inoguchi, T. (2008) Parliamentary Opposition under (Post-)One-Party Rule: Japan.
Journal of Legislative Studies, 14(1), 113-132.
Week 3-2 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
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
Lee, Y. (2009). Divergent Outcomes of Labour Reform Politics in Democratized
Korea and Taiwan. Studies in Comparative International Development 44:47-70
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 4-1 Electoral systems and Social cleavages
This session provides studies on the party representation, constitutional engineering
and voting behaviour and social cleavages. It looks at the voting rules and political
behaviour and proportional representation and raises issues such as what variables
seem relevant to explain the choices for a proportional representation or a plurality
system.
Required reading
Norris, P. 1997. "Choosing Electoral Systems: Proportional, Majoritarian and Mixed
Systems." International Political Science Review 18(3): 297-312.
Rokkan, S.1970/2009. Citizens, Elections, Parties – Approaches to the Comparative
Study of the Processes of Development. Chapter 3 (Nation-Building, Cleavage
Formation and the Structuring of Mass Politics).
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Additional readings
Kim, Y. 2014. The 2012 Parliamentary and Presidential Elections in South Korea.
Electoral Studies, 34(2), 326-330
Boix, C. 1999. “Setting the Rules of the Game: The Choice of Electoral Systems in
Advanced Democracies.”The American Political Science Review , 93(3): 609-624.
LeDuc, L., Niemi R. and P. Norris. 2010. “Introduction: Building and Sustaining
Democracy.” In Comparing Democracies 3 London: Sage.
Lijphart A. 1997. “Unequal Participation: Democracy's Unresolved Dilemma“, The
American Political Science Review , 91(1): 1-14.
Mozaffar, S., J. R. Scarritt, et al. 2003. "Electoral Institutions, Ethnopolitical
Cleavages and Party Systems in Africa's Emerging Democracies." American Political
Science Review 97(3): 379-390.
Benoit, Kenneth. 2007. “Electoral Laws as Political Consequences: Explaining
Origins and Change of Electoral Institutions.” Annual Review of Political Science 10:
363-390.
Benoit, Kenneth and Jacqueline Hayden. 2004. “Institutional Change and Persistence:
The Evolution of Poland’s Electoral System, 1989-2001. Journal of Politics 66(2):
396-427.
Iversen, Torben and David Soskice. 2006. “Electoral Systems and the Politics of
Coalitions - Why Some Democracies Redistribute More than Others”. American
Political Science Review 100(2): 165-181.
Karp, Jeffrey A. and Susan A. Banducci. 2008. “Political Efficacy and Participation in
Twenty-Seven Democracies: How Electoral Systems Shape Political Behaviour.”
British Journal of Political Science 38: 311-334.
Lijphart, Arend. Electoral systems and party systems. A study of twenty-seven
democracies 1945-1990, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1994.
Norris, Pippa. 2004. Electoral engineering. Voting rules and political behavior,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Ch 2, 3.
Hoffman, A.L. 2005. Political parties, electoral systems and democracy: A crossnational analysis. European Journal of Political Research, 44, 231-242.
Christensen, R. V. and P. E. Johnson. 1995. "Toward a Context-Rich Analysis of
Electoral Systems: The Japanese Example." American Journal of Political Science
39(3): 575-598.
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Kriesi, H. 2010. ‘Restructuration of Partisan Politics and the Emergence of a New
Cleavage Based on Values’, in: West European Politics 33(3): 673-685.
Bartolini and Mair 1990/2007: Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability – The
Stabilization of European Electorates 1885-1985, Chapters 2-4.
Achterberg, P. 2006, ‘Class Voting in the New Political Culture: Economic, Cultural
and Environmental Voting in 20 Western Countries’, in: International Sociology
21(2):237-261.
Ufen, A. 2012. “Party Systems, Critical Junctures, and Cleavages in Southeast Asia.”
Asian Survey, 52(3): 441-464.
Norris, Pippa. 2008. Driving Democracy: Do Power‐sharing Institutions Work?
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Albright, J. (2010), ‘The Multidimensional Nature of Party Competition’, in: Party
Politics 16(6): 57-72.
Week 4-2 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.
Ham, Chae-bong. (2004) The Ironies of Confucianism. Journal of Democracy, 15(3),
93-107.
Additional readings
Kim, Y. (2012) ‘Confucianism and coalition politics: Is Korean political behaviour
irrational?’, Journal of Northeast Asian History, 9(2): 5-32.
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.
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.
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Week 5-1 Debate – Do Asian values exist?
Required reading
Zakaria, F. (1994) Culture Is Destiny; A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew. Foreign
Affairs, 73(2), 109-126.
Kim Dae-jung (1994) Is Culture Destiny? The Myth of Asia's Anti-Democratic
Values. Foreign Affairs, November/December.
Additional readings
Beeson, M. (2007) Ch.4 (‘Nationalism, Domestic politics and Asian values’).
Dittmer, L. (2000) Ch 4.
Dalton, R. J. and Ong, N.N. T. (2005) Authority Orientations and Democratic
Attitudes: A Test of the Asian Values' Hypothesis. Japanese Journal of Political
Science, 6(2): 211-231.
Lee, C. Y. (2003) Do traditional values still exist in modern Chinese society? The
case of Singapore and China. Asia Europe Journal, 1: 43-59.
Week 5-2 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.
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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.
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.
Kim, Byung-Kook and Vogel, Ezra (2011) eds. The Park Era: The Transformation of
South Korea. Cambridge: Harvard University Press Ch1.
Amsden, Alice H. (1989) Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Armstrong, C.K. (2002) ed. Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy and the State.
London: Routledge
Eckert, Carter J. (1991) Offspring of Empire: The Koch’ang Kims and the Colonial
Origins of Korean Capitalism 1876-1945. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Kim, Sunhyuk (2000) The Politics of Modernization in Korea: The Role of Civil
Society. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Koo, Hagen (2001) Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
World Bank (1993) The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Woo-Cumings, Meredith (1999) ed. The Developmental State. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press
Week 6 -1 Region-builder or spoiler? The US in East Asia
The lecture examines the role of the United States in the region, especially in shaping
regional dynamics.
Required reading
Beeson, M. (2009) Hegemonic Transition in East Asia? The dynamics of Chinese and
American Power. Review of International Studies, 35, 95-112.
Additional readings
Beeson, M. (2007), Ch. 8 (‘East Asian regionalism’).
Katzenstein, P.J. (2005) A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American
Imperium. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, esp. Ch. 6 (‘Linking Regions and
Imperium’).
Inoguchi, T. and P. Bacon (2005). Empire, Hierarchy, and hegemony: American
grand strategy and the construction of order in the Asia-Pacific. International
Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 5(2), 117-132.
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Ness, P. V. (2002) Hegemony, not anarchy: why China and Japan are not balancing
US unipolar power. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 2(1), 131-150.
Yahuda, M. (2004), Ch. 8 (‘Era of American Pre-eminence’), and Ch. 9 (‘United
States’)
Inoguchi, T. and P. Bacon (2001) The study of international relations in Japan:
towards a more international discipline. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific,
1(1), 1-20.
Garrett, B. (2006) US-China Relations in the Era of Globalisation and Terror: A
Framework for Analysis. Journal of Contemporary China, 15(48), 389-415.
Week 6-2 Soft Power in East Asia
What is Soft Power? How does China try to exercise it? What are the impacts of
Korea wave (Hallyu) or Korean Soft power in the world?
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 7 READING WEEK
Week 8-1 The Korean Peninsula - 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
Mitchell B. Reiss (2006) A Nuclear-armed North Korea: Accepting the
‘Unacceptable’. Survival, 48(4), 97-109.
International Crisis Group (2007) After the North Korea Nuclear Breakthrough:
Compliance or Confrontation? Policy Briefing No. 62.
Additional readings
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.
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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.
Week 8-2 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
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.
International Crisis Group (2007) After the North Korea Nuclear Breakthrough:
Compliance or Confrontation? Policy Briefing No. 62.
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.
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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.
Week 9-1 The Rise of China and the neighbours
The lecture examines the factors that have made the rise of China possible during the
late 20th and 21st century.
Required readings
Callahan, W.A. (2008) Chinese Visions of World Order: Post-hegemonic or a New
Hegemony? International Studies Review, 10(4), 749-761.
Friedberg, A. (2012) Bucking Beijing. Foreign Affairs, 91 (5), 48-58.
Additional readings
Ringmar, Erik (2012) “Performing International Systems: Two East-Asian
Alternatives to the Westphalian Order,” International Organization, 66(1), 1-25.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=84792
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Speech by Zoellick, Robert B (2005) “responsible stakeholder” (Whither China: From
Membership to Responsibility? Remarks to National Committee on U.S.-China
Relations September 21.
Nathan, A and Schobell, A (2012) How China Sees America. Foreign Affairs 91 (5),
32-47.
Christensen, T. J. (2006) Fostering Stability or Creating a Monster? The Rise of China
and US Policy towards East Asia. International Security, 31(1), 81-126.
Kerr, D. (2007) Has China Abandoned self-reliance? Review of International Political
Economy, 14(1), 77-104.
Callahan, W. A. (2005) How to understand China: the dangers and opportunities of
being a rising power. Review of International Studies, 31(4), 701–714.
Lampton, D. (2007) The Faces of Chinese Power” Foreign Affairs 86(1), 115-27.
Ness, P. V. (2002) Hegemony, not anarchy: why China and Japan are not balancing
US unipolar power. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 2, 131-150.
Yang, P. (2006) Doubly Dualistic Dilemma: US strategies towards China and Taiwan.
International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 6, 209-225.
Roy, D. (1994) Dangerous Dragon or Paper Tiger? Hegemon on the Horizon? China's
Threat to East Asian Security. International Security, 19(1), 149-168.
Cable, V. and Ferdinand, P. (1994) China: Enter the Giant China as an Economic
Giant: Threat or Opportunity? International Affairs, 70(2), 243-261.
Xuetong, Y. (2001) The Rise of China in Chinese Eyes. Journal of Contemporary
China, 10(26), 33-39.
Osius, T. (2001) Discussion of 'The Rise of China in Chinese Eyes'. Journal of
Contemporary China, 10(26), 41-44.
Tammen, R. L. (2006) The Impact of Asia on World Politics: China and India
Options for the United States. International Studies Review, 8, 563-580.
Yahuda, M. (2004) Ch 6 (‘China and the Asia-Pacific’), Ch.10 (‘China’).
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Roy, D. (1996) The “China Threat” Issue: Major Arguments. Asian Survey, 36(8)
758-771.
Ianchovichina, E. and W. Martin (2004) Impact of China’s Accession to the World
Trade Organization. World Bank Economic Review, 18(1), 3-27.
Week 9-2 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 10-1 China and Taiwan
The lecture focuses on the conditions that led to the emergence of the two Chinas, and
the recent developments. Will they re-unify?
Required reading
Zhao, Q. (2005) Beijing’s Dilemma with Taiwan: War or Peace? Pacific Review
18(2): 217-42.
Additional readings
Rowan, J. (2005) The US-Japan Security Alliance, ASEAN, and the South China Sea
Dispute. Asian Survey, 45(3), 414-36.
Dittmer, L. (2006) Taiwan as a Factor in China’s Quest for National
Identity. Journal of Contemporary China, 15(49), 671-86.
Chu,Y. (2003) Power Transition and the Making of Beijing's Policy
towards Taiwan. China Quarterly, 176, 960-980.
Yang, P. (2006) Doubly Dualistic Dilemma: US strategies towards China and Taiwan.
International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 6, 209-225.
Yahuda, M. (2004) Ch.6, 10.
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Wang, T. Y. (2000) One China, One Taiwan: An Analysis of the Democratic
Progressive Party's China Policy. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 35(1), 159182.
Week 10-2 Global Cities in East Asia
This session provides an introduction to global urban studies, focusing on cities in
East Asia. It begins with questions about the nature of global cities and reviews the
main approaches to studying cities and urbanization in Asia.
Required reading
Sassen, S. (2010). “A Savage Sorting of Winners and Losers:
Contemporary Versions of Primitive Accumulation.” Globalizations7 (1/2): 23-50.
Lee, K., Wong, H and Law, K. (2007). “Social Polarisation and Poverty in the Global
City : The Case of Hong Kong” China Report 2007 43 (1): 1-30
Additional readings
Pizarro, R. E., L. Wei, et al. (2003). “Agencies of Globalization and Third World
Urban Form: A Review.” Journal of Planning Literature18(2): 111-130.
Sassen, S. (2008).“Re-assembling the urban.” Urban Geography29 (2): 113-126.
Pucher, J., Z.-r.Peng, et al. (2007). “Urban Transport Trends and Policies in China
and India: Impacts of Rapid Economic Growth.” Transport Reviews27(4): 379-410.
Cartier, C. 2002. Transnational urbanism in the reform-era Chinese city: landscapes
from Shenzhen. Urban Studies (39)9: 1513-1532.
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.
Sassen, S. (2005). “The Global City: Introducing a Concept.” The British Journal of
World Affairs 6(2): 27-43.
Dick, H.W., and Rimmer, P.J. 1998. ‘Beyond the Third World city: The new urban
geography of South-east Asia’, Urban Studies, 35(12): 2303-2321.
Keil, R. and K. Olds (2001).“Review Symposium.”Urban Affairs Review 37(1): 119157.
Hamnett, C. (1994). “Social Polarisation in Global Cities: Theory and Evidence.”
Urban Studies31(3): 401-424.
Olds, K. 2001. Globalization and Urban Change: Capital, Culture and Pacific Rim
Mega-Projects, Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.
Wu, C. T.. 2000. Diaspora Capital and Asia Pacific Urban Development in G. Bridge
and S.e Watson. eds. A Companion to the City. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Yan, Y. 2000. Of Hamburger and Social Space: Consuming McDonald’s in Beijing.
In D. Davis, ed. The Consumer Revolution in Urban China. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Neuwirth, Robert. 2006. Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World.
London, New York: Routledge. Nairobi: The Squatter Control pp. 67-99.
Brysona, J. and W. Wyckoff (2010). "Rural gentrification and nature in the Old and
New Wests." Journal of Cultural Geography 27(1): 53-75.
Watt, P. (2009). "Housing Stock Transfers, Regeneration and State-Led Gentrification
in London." Urban Policy and Research 27(3): 229-242.
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Week 11-1 Norms, culture and foreign policy: The ASEAN way
Building on some of the points made in the previous lecture, here the focus is on how
culture and norms shape foreign policy and the emergence of regional organizations.
Required reading
Acharya, A. (2004) How Ideas Spread: Whose Norms Matter? Norm Localization and
Institutional Change in Asian Regionalism. International Organization, 58(2), 23975.
Additional readings
Emmerson, D. K. (2005) Security, Community, and Democracy in Southeast Asia:
Analyzing ASEAN. Japanese Journal of Political Science, 6(2), 165-185.
Acharya, A. and Tan, S. S. (2006). Betwixt balance and community: America,
ASEAN, and the security of Southeast Asia. International Relations of the AsiaPacific, 6, 37-59.
Solingen, E. (2005) ASEAN cooperation: the legacy of the economic crisis.
International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 5, 1-29.
Nabers, D. (2003) The social construction of international institutions: the case of
ASEAN + 3. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 3, 113-136.
Ashizawa, K. (2003) Japan's approach toward Asian regional security: from 'huband-spoke' bilateralism to 'multi-tiered'. Pacific Review, 16(3), 361-382.
Menon, J. (2000) The Evolving ASEAN Free Trade Area: Widening and Deepening.
Asian Development Review, 18(1), 49-72.
Dokken, K. (2001) Environment, security and regionalism in the Asia-Pacific: is
environmental security a useful concept. Pacific Review, 14(4), 2001, 509-530.
Webber, D. (2001) Two funerals and a wedding? The ups and downs of regionalism
in East Asia and Asia-Pacific after the Asian crisis. Pacific Review, 14(3), 339-372.
Week 11-2 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 12-1 Political and Economic regionalism
The lecture examines the development of regional dynamics in the economic and
political realm in East Asia.
Required readings
Breslin, S. (2010).Comparative theory, China, and the future of East Asian
regionalism. Review of International Studies36: 709-729.
Additional readings
Inoguchi, T. and P. Bacon (2005). Empire, Hierarchy, and hegemony: American
grand strategy and the construction of order in the Asia-Pacific. International
Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 5(2), 117-132.
Gomez-Mera, L. (2008). “How ‘new’ is the ‘new Regionalism’ in the Americas? The
case of MERCOSUR.” Journal of International Relations and Development11(3):279308
Libman, A. (2007) Regionalisation and Regionalism in the Post-Soviet Space: Current
Status and Implications for Institutional Development Alexander Libman Europe-Asia
Studies, 59(3): 401-430.
Donald J. Puchala, ‘The Integration Theorists and the Study of
International Relations’, International Organization, 55: 3,(2001): 553-88.
Amitav Acharya, ‘Regional Worlds in a Post-Hegemonic Era’, SPIRIT Working
Papers, No.1 (Science Po, 2009). Available at:
http://spirit.sciencespobordeaux.fr/Cahiers%20de%20SPIRIT/Cahiers%20de%20SPI
RIT_1_Acharya.pdf
Amitav Acharya, Whose Ideas Matter? Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism
(Cornell University Press, 2009), Chapters 1-2.
Beeson, M. (2007). Regionalism & Globalization in East
Asia. New York, Palgrave Macmillan. Ch.3-4
S. Lebedev, ‘The CIS, an Area of Effective Cooperation’, International Affairs
(Moscow), 3, (2009):41-46.
Andrew Hurrell, the Regional Dimension in International Relations Theory, in Mary
Farrell, ed., Global Politics of Regionalism,(Pluto Press, 2005): 38-53.
Fawcett, L. and A. Hurrell (2000). Regionalism in World Politics: Regional
Organization and International Order. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Ch.3-5
Antje Wiener and ThomasDiez (2004). European Regional Integration
Theory Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ch. 1-4.
Gamble, A. and A. Payne (1996). Regionalism and World Order. Hampshire,
Palgrave. Ch. 6, 7
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Dokken, K. (2001). "Environment, Security and regionalism in the Asia-Pacific: is
environmental security a useful concept?" The Pacific Review 14(4): 509-530.
Ness, P. V. (2002). "Hegemony, not anarchy: why China and Japan are not balancing
US unipolar power." International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 2: 131-150.
Katzenstein, P. J. (2000). "Regionalism and Asia." New Political Economy 5(3): 353368.
Jan Zielonka (2006), Europe as Empire, The Nature of the Enlarged European Union,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 164-191.
Dent, C. (2008) The Asian Development Bank and Developmental Regionalism in
East Asia. Third World Quarterly, 29(4), 767-786.
Dieter, H. (2003) Exploring alternative theories of economic regionalism: from trade
to finance in Asian co-operation? Review of International Political Economy, 10(3),
430-454.
Katzenstein, P.J. (2000) Regionalism and Asia. New Political Economy, 5(3), 353368.
Munakata, N. (2006) ‘Has Politics caught up with Markets? In search of East Asian
Economic Regionalism’, in P.J. Katzenstein (ed) Beyond Japan. The Dynamics of
East Asian Regionalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Beeson, M. (2007) Ch. 7 (‘East Asia and the Global Economy’), and Ch. 8 (‘East
Asian regionalism’).
Zhang, Y. (2003). Pacific Asia: The Politics of Development. London: Routledge,
Ch.3, 4.
Katzenstein, P.J. (2005) A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American
Imperium. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Wong, J. (2004) The Adaptive Developmental State in East Asia. Journal of East
Asian Studies, 4(3), 345-362.
Rüland, J. (2001) ‘The Evolution of APEC’, In: Ravenhill, John, APEC and the
construction of Pacific Rim regionalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 90133.
Ravenhill, J. (2000) APEC adrift: implications for economic regionalism in Asia and
the Pacific. Pacific Review, 13(2), 319-333
Krauss, E. (2000) Japan, the US and the emergence of multilateralism in Asia.
Pacific Review, 13(3), 473-494
Underhill, G. and Zhang, X. (2005) The changing state–market condominium in East
Asia: rethinking the political underpinnings of development. New Political Economy,
10(1), 1-24.
Beeson, M. (2005) Rethinking regionalism: Europe and East Asia in comparative
historical perspective. Journal of European Public Policy, 12(6), 969-985.
Breslin, S. and Hook, G. (2002) ‘Introduction: the political economy of
microregionalism and world order’, in Breslin, S., and Hook, G. (eds)
Microregionalism and world order. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1-22.
Beeson, M. (2002) Southeast Asia and the politics of vulnerability. Third World
Quarterly, 23(3), 549-564.
Week 12-2 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 Asian regionalism in
a broader comparative perspective, and also asks why no equivalent of European
Union has developed.
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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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