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1 Program: IMAS Semester: Fall 2015 Course Name: Asia-Pacific Regional Development Instructor: Dr. Chyungly LEE ext ) Time: Friday, 6:30pm 9:00pm (150 minutes, no break) Room: (General Building) Course Objectives: This course is to study the backgrounds, the current developments, and the future trends of selective politico-economic and politico-security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. Please note that this is not a course of development study. Course Description This class first clarifies how regional studies can be different from area studies. Students are encouraged to define Asia Pacific as a region with references to the designated readings. The second part of the course is to understand the Asia-Pacific geo-economic dynamics, with particular focuses on the developmental state model and the flying geese paradigm. In addition, recent intergovernmental establishments for regional economic governance, which plays more important role in shaping future trends, are to be studied. After the mid-term exam, the course discussions shift to regional geo-strategic and security issues. Both US-led and ASEAN-led security mechanisms are to be introduced. Throughout the semester, Taiwan in the region s geo-economic and geo-strategic dynamics will be discussed. Class Requirements and Evaluation 1. Class Participation: 20% (including attendance) 2. 4 Critiques (no more than 500 words each) 40% Due 10/16: Defining Asia-Pacific region Due 11/20: Observations of 2015 Summits Due 12/25: a critique of your choice Due 1/8: a critique of your choice 3. In-class Mid-term exam. 20% 4. Take-home Final exam. 20% Class Schedule and Reading Assignments Week 1: 9/18 Course Introduction, Quiz, Week 2: 9/25 Defining Regional Study 1. George Peter Murdock, The Conceptual Basis of Area Research, World Politics, Vol. 2, No. 4 (July 1950), pp < 0252> 2. Amitav Acharya, International Relations and Area Studies: Towards a New 1

2 Synthesis? (Singapore: IDSS working paper No. 2) 3. Rick Fawn, 2009, Regions and Their Study: where from, what for and where to? Review of International Studies, 35, pp IS&volumeId=35&issueId=S1&aid= Week 3: 10/2 Asia-Pacific as a Region 1. Raimo Vayrynen, Regionalism: Old and New, International Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 1 (March 2003), pp < 2. T.J. Pempel, Introduction: Emerging Webs of Regional Connectedness, in T. J. Pempel ed. Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005), pp (pdf) 3. Joseph A. Camilleri, Asia Pacific as a Region, in Regionalism in the New Asia-Pacific Order: The Political Economy of the Asia-Pacific Region, Volume II (UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003), pp (pdf) Week 4: 10/9 no class Week 5: 10/16 Geo-economic Dynamics of the Region I 1 st written assignment due: Defining Asia-Pacific as a region. 1. Vinod K. Aggaraval, Look West: The Evolution of US Trade Policy Toward Asia, Globalization, vol. 7, Issue 4, < 2. Terutomo Ozawa, Pax Americana-Led Catch-Up, Flying-Geese Styles: Regionalized Endogenous Growth in East Asia, Asian Economic Cooperation in the New Millennium: China s Economic Presence, edited by Calla Wiemer and Heping Cao, (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2004, pp Shigehisa Kasahara, The Asian Developmental State and the Flying Geese Paradigm, UNCTAD/OSG/DP/2013/3 < Week 6: 10/23 Geo-economic Dynamics of the Region II Guest Speaker: Professor Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang (University of Richmond, USA) The U.S. Asian Rebalancing and Taiwan's Geo-economic Place in the Asia-Pacific 1. Robert G. Sutter, Michael E. Brown, and Timothy Adamson, Balancing Acts: The U.S. Rebalance and Asia-Pacific Stability (Sigur Center for Asian Studies, GWU, August 2013) 2. Alan V. Deardorff, Trade Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for ASEAN and Other Asian Countries, Asian Development Review, Vol. 31,No. 2 (2014), pp

3 3. Min-Hau Chiang and Bernard Gerbier, Taiwan and the Transformation of Asia-USA Economic Relationship: From Triangular Trading Bloc to the Four-Corner Structure, La Chronique des Ameriques, No. 19, Week 7: 10/30 Geo-economic Dynamics of the Region III 1. Dennis Tachiki, Between Foreign Direct Investment and Regionalism: The Role of Japanese Production Networks, in 2. Prema-chandra Athukorala, Production Network and Trade Patterns in East Asia: Regionalization or Globalization? Asian Economic Paper 10:1, Kazushi Shimizu, Economic Integration in East Asia: Issues and Tasks in the Post World Financial Crisis Ear, Economic Journal of Hokkaido University, Vol. 41, 2010, pp Week 8: 11/6 Regional Economic Architecture 1. Stuart Harris (1994), Policy Networks and Economic Cooperation: Policy Cooperation: Policy Coordination in the Asia-Pacific Region,, The Pacific Review, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp John McKay, APEC: Successes, Weaknesses, and Future Prospects, Southeast Asian Affairs 2002, pp Siow Yue Chia, The Emerging Regional Economic Integration Architecture in East Asia, Asian Economic Papers 12:1 (2013) Week 9: 11/13 The 2015 International Conference on Asia-Pacific Studies November 12-14, 2015 National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan < [11/18-19 APEC informal leaders summit] [11/18-22 Summit of ASEAN and ASEAN-extended Mechanisms] 1. Zhang Yunling, One Belt, One Road: A Chinese View, Global Asia, vol. 10, no. 3, Fall APEC, The Beijing Roadmap for APEC s Contribution to the Realization of the FTAAP, Annex A in the Declaration of 2014 APEC Leaders Summit df 3. Rizal Sukma (2014), ASEAN Beyond 2015: The Imperatives for Further Institutional Changes, ERIA Discussion Paper Series, ERIA-DP Week 10: 11/20 mid-term exam (in class) (materials from WK 2- WK8 2 nd written assignment due: Observations on 2015 Regional Summits (updates of regional cooperation) 3

4 Week 11: 11/27 Northeast Asian Security Issues Guest Speaker: Professor Fei-Ling Wang, George Institute of Technology, USA (TBC) 1. Suisheng Zhao, Delicate Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific: The Obama Administration s Strategic Rebalance and the Transformation of US-China Relationship, Economic and Political Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 July 2013, David Kang, Security of Northeast Asia, Pacific Focus, Vol. 24, No. 1, (April 2009), pp International Crisis Group, North Korea: Beyond the Six-Party Talks, Asia Report No. 269, (June 16, 2015) Week 12: 12/4 Southeast Asian Security Issues 1. Marvin C. Ott, Southeast Asian Security Challenges: America s Response? Strategic Forum, No. 222, October Chris Rahman and Martin Tsamenyi, A Strategic Perspective on Security and Naval Issues in the South China Sea, Ocean Development & International Law, 41: , Christopher Jasparro and Jonathan Taylor Climate Change and Regional Vulnerability to Transnational Security Threats in Southeast Asia, Geopolitics, 12: Week 13: 12/11 Regional Security Architecture I (US-led) 1. Nick Bisley, Securing the Anchor of Regional Stability? The Transformation of the U.S.-Japan Alliance and East Asian Security, Contemporary Southeast Asia Vol. 30, No. 1, 2008, pp Prashanth Parameswaran, Explaining US Strategic Partnership in the Asia-Pacific Region: Origins, Developments, and Prospects, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2014), pp Suk Kyoon Kim, Maritime Security Initiatives in East Asia: Assessment and the Way Forward, Ocean Development & International Law, 42: , Week 14: 12/18 Regional Security Architecture II (ASEAN-extended) 1. Noel M. Morada (2010), The ASEAN Regional Forum: Origins and Evolution, in Jurgen Haccke and Noel M. Morada eds. Cooperative Security in the Asia-Pacific: The ASEAN Regional Forum (London: Routledge, 2010), pp See Seng Tan, Talking Their Walk? The Evolution of Defense Regionalism in Southeast Asia, Asian Security, 8:3, , Evelyn Goh, ASEAN-led Multilateralism and Regional Order: The Great Power Bargain Deficit, (May, ) < n-deficit/> 4

5 Week 15: 12/25 Taiwan in the Region Last Day of Class. Questions for take-home exam. The 3 rd written assignment due: one critique, your choice of an article from reading assignments between Week 5 and Week Jiann-Chyuan Wang, The Strategies Adopted by Taiwan in Response to the Global Financial Crisis and Taiwan s Role in Asia-Pacific Economic Integration, Japan and the World Economy 22 (2010): Vincent Wei-cheng Wang, The U.S. Asia Rebalancing and the Taiwan Strait Rapprochement, Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, 59(3) (Summer 2015): Chyungly Lee, Taiwan s Participation in Asia-Pacific Regional Processes, (2010) Week 16: 1/1 no class Week 17: 1/8 Final Exam. DUE. (materials from WK 1-WK15) your answer sheet to cllee@nccu.edu.tw by 11:50pm on 1/8 (Taipei Time) The 4 th written assignment due: one critique, your choice of an article from readings between Week 11 to Week 15 5