SUMMER NOTE: Repeated class absences will affect your participation grade. Please let me know if you are missing class for a valid reason.

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1 NS 3645: EAST ASIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY SUMMER 2014 NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS Professor Naazneen Barma Office: Glasgow Phone: Class hours and location: Tuesday & Thursday, 1-3pm, GL130 Office hours: Tuesday & Thursday, by appointment COURSE DESCRIPTION This course examines how politics, economics, and societal factors have interacted in contemporary East Asian political economic development. We will cover the region s extraordinary growth and development in the post-world War II period. The course will deliver a theoretical and empirical understanding of the contemporary East Asian political economic experience, along with a lens through which to assess the strengths and weaknesses of these systems in comparative and international context. We will begin with an assessment of what constituted the East Asian Miracle, surveying a series of alternative explanations on the dynamics of East Asian economic success covering economic policy, the international and domestic political context, and institutional, social, and cultural foundations. We will then examine different country trajectories, beginning with Japan and the four Asian tigers (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong) and turning to economic development in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. From the perspective of regional financial crisis, we will interrogate the resilience and stability of the political economies of East Asia. Turning to China, we will analyze the characteristics, successes, and drawbacks of its political economic transition. Finally, we will examine how evolving forces of regionalism and globalization might shape the road ahead for East Asia. COURSE REQUIREMENTS Active class participation: 20% of course grade This course will be conducted as an introductory graduate seminar with a significant discussion component and requirement. Each session will constitute a mix of lecture and guided discussion. Successful participation will require thorough and thoughtful reading of the assigned materials and constructive engagement with your classmates in discussion. It will also require familiarity with current events that is, you must make an effort to keep up with the news by regularly reading at least one quality newspaper (recommended: the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal) and one news magazine (recommended: the Economist). Also look at the Project Syndicate Economists Club for opinions on contemporary economic issues ( as well as the numerous lively blogs that cover political economy issues (e.g., Chris Blattman, Marginal Revolution, Dan Drezner). I will often distribute news clips for discussion; and I encourage you to point me to any you think are worthwhile. NOTE: Repeated class absences will affect your participation grade. Please let me know if you are missing class for a valid reason. NS3645 Summer 2014 Barma 1

2 Take-home midterm exam essay, 1500 words (~5 pages): 30% of course grade I will distribute the midterm exam on Tuesday July 29. There will be one question, to which you will be required to construct a 1500-word essay response. It will be an open book exam. The midterm is due on Tuesday August 5 at the beginning of class (1300). Late exams will be docked one-third of a grade for each day they are late unless you have made prior arrangements with me. Take-home final exam essay, 8 10 pages (~2500 words): 50% of course grade I will distribute the final exam on Tuesday September 9. It will be an open book exam and you will have some choice in terms of questions. The final is due no later than Monday September 22 at 1700; you may turn it in earlier if you wish. your final to me (this will serve as your time-stamp), and also place a hard copy in the box outside my office, Glasgow 355. Late exams will be docked one-third of a grade for each day they are late unless you have made prior arrangements with me. WRITING GUIDELINES AND RESOURCES The NSA department s policies on grading of research papers will give you guidance as to what constitutes good writing for the assignments in this course: Please also read the two writing-related articles posted in the class handouts folder on Sakai: Henry Farrell s Good Writing in Political Science and Daniel Drezner s On Writing a Paper. An excellent writing style guide is William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style (Boston, Allyn and Bacon, 2000). I refer to it often and suggest that you have a look as well. You are required to cite all works you quote, paraphrase, or draw ideas from (including Internet sources). For citation style, use the Chicago Manual of Style, guidelines for which can be found on Sakai and at: Your work will be marked down for sloppy writing so please check your spelling and grammar, and proofread your assignments before submitting them. The NPS Graduate Writing Center is an excellent on-campus resource for help with writing, through both one-on-one coaching and workshops on various topics: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY The NPS Honor Code applies to your conduct in this class, including all written assignments. Plagiarism, cheating, and other forms of academic dishonesty violate the NPS Honor Code and, in accordance with university and department policy, I will not tolerate such violations. Assignments with any instance of plagiarism will be given a failing grade; and you may be subject to more extensive disciplinary penalties, as prescribed by NPS and the NSA department. Please read, carefully, the NSA departmental guidelines on what constitutes plagiarism and violations of academic integrity: NS3645 Summer 2014 Barma 2

3 The bottom line is that the work you submit must be your own, with explicit acknowledgment of the ideas and content that you have drawn from other people s work. If you have questions at all regarding academic integrity, don t hesitate to contact me. I will be happy help you work through how best to acknowledge other ideas and work in the course of creating your own. READING MATERIALS The reading load for this class is moderate, typically around 150 pages per week less in weeks with challenging readings, and more in weeks with easier readings. In order to get the most that you can from this class, make an effort to read the assigned materials with careful, analytical attention. To help you do that, a full set of reading questions is posted on the Sakai site. Look, also, at the practical tips for critical reading handout, which is available on the class Sakai site. Note that the NPS Graduate Writing Center offers workshops intended to assist you with analytical reading. I have assigned a handful of materials that are more for reference than for close reading these are marked in the reading assignments below as (SKIM). You are still responsible for knowing the content of these pieces, but they require less analytical attention. Required Books The following three books will be used quite extensively for the course. They are available for purchase at the bookstore or online, and are also on reserve at Knox Library: Dwight H. Perkins, East Asian Development: Foundations and Strategies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Henry S. Rowen, ed. Behind East Asian Growth: The Political and Social Foundations of Prosperity. New York: Routledge, Andrew MacIntyre, T. J. Pempel, and John Ravenhill, eds. Crisis as Catalyst: Asia s Dynamic Political Economy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Recommended Books The following books are classics on East Asian political economy and are complementary to the required books. We will read a couple of chapters from each (posted on Sakai). Many of the other chapters are also worthwhile reading and these books overall serve as good references. Frederic C. Deyo, ed. The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Stephan Haggard, Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, The following book is widely considered the best single reference on Chinese political economy. We will read about one-quarter of the book (sections posted on Sakai). Barry Naughton, The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth. Cambridge: MIT Press, NS3645 Summer 2014 Barma 3

4 Finally, the following book is an excellent more general reference on the economics of growth and development. Dwight H. Perkins, Steven Radelet, David L. Lindauer, and Steven A. Block. Economics of Development (7 th edition). New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Sakai Website All other required readings will be available for download electronically on the Sakai website for the course. For copyright reasons, this website will be available only to logged-in NPS users (requiring VPN access from off-campus). NS3645 Summer 2014 Barma 4

5 SCHEDULE OF CLASSES AND READING ASSIGNMENTS PART I THE EAST ASIAN MIRACLE: WHAT AND HOW? July 8, July 10 No class Instructor TDY conducting research in Laos 1. July 15 Introduction to class Perkins, Introduction: 1 13 Rowen, Ch. 1: 1 36 (Henry Rowen, The Political and Social Foundations of the Rise of East Asia: An Overview ) 2. July 17 What is the East Asian Miracle? Perkins, Ch. 2: World Bank, The East Asian Miracle (1993), 1 60 Dwight H. Perkins, Steven Radelet, David L. Lindauer, and Steven A. Block, Economics of Development (2013), chs. 2 & 6 (SKIM for reference) 3. July 22 Economics and Industrial Policy Robert Wade, East Asia s Economic Success: Conflicting Perspectives, Partial Insights, Shaky Evidence, World Politics 44:2 (January 1992), Paul Krugman, The Myth of Asia s Miracle, Foreign Affairs 73:6 (Nov/Dec 1994), World Bank, The East Asian Miracle (1993), (SKIM) 4. July 24 The Political Context: International and Domestic Perkins, Ch. 1: Rowen, Ch. 2: (Minxin Pei, Constructing the Political Foundations of an Economic Miracle ) Stephan Haggard, Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries (1990), 1-22 (and SKIM 23 48) 5. July 29 Institutions and Governance Stephan Haggard, Institutions and Growth in East Asia, Studies in Comparative International Development 38:4 (Winter 2004), Rowen, Ch. 3: (Hilton Root, Distinctive Institutions in the Rise of Industrial Asia ) World Bank, The East Asian Miracle (1993), (SKIM) v MIDTERM EXAM will be distributed on Tuesday July 29 and is DUE on Tuesday August 5 at the beginning of class (1300) NS3645 Summer 2014 Barma 5

6 6. July 31 Politics, Society, and Culture v 1.5-hr documentary viewing in class The Pacific Century. Fareed Zakaria, A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew, Foreign Affairs 73:2 (March/April 1994), ; and Kim Dae Jung, Is Culture Destiny? The Myth of Asia s Anti-Democratic Values (A Response to Lee Kuan Yew), Foreign Affairs 73:4 (November/December 1994), PART II PATHWAYS TO GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT 7. August 5 Japan: Meiji Restoration and Post-WW2 Success v MIDTERM EXAM DUE at beginning of class David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (1998): Rowen, Ch. 12: (James Raphael and Thomas Rohlen, How Many Models of Japanese Growth Do We Want or Need? ) (SKIM) 8. August 7 The Developmental State: The Government-Business Relationship in Northeast Asia Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle (1982), 3 34 Chalmers Johnson, Political Institutions and Economic Performance: The Government-Business Relationship in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, in Frederic C. Deyo, ed., The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism (1987), August 12 The First NICs: South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong Perkins, Ch. 3: Newman Lam, Government Intervention in the Economy: A Comparative Analysis of Singapore and Hong Kong, Public Administration and Development 20 (2000), (SKIM) 10. August 14 Southeast Asia: A Mixed Picture Perkins, Ch. 4: Richard Doner, Bryan Ritchie, and Dan Slater, Systemic Vulnerability and the Origins of Developmental States: Northeast and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective, International Organization 59:2 (2005), Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel, Suharto, Inc. in Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations (2008), August 19 The Outliers? Poor Governance, Patronage, and the Resource Curse Paul Hutchcroft and Joel Rocamora, Strong Demands and Weak Institutions: The Origins and Evolution of the Democratic Deficit in the Philippines, Journal of East Asian Studies 3 (2003), Sophal Ear, The Political Economy of Aid and Governance in Cambodia, Asian Journal of Political Science 15:1 (2007), NS3645 Summer 2014 Barma 6

7 Naazneen Barma, The Rentier State at Work: Comparative Experiences of the Resource Curse in East Asia and the Pacific, Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies 1:2 (2014), August 21 The East Asian Financial Crisis PART III CRISIS AND RECOVERY Stephan Haggard, The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis (2000), 1 14, 47 72, Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents (2002), (SKIM) 13. August 26 Reform and Recovery Andrew MacIntyre, Institutions and Investors: The Politics of the Economic Crisis in Southeast Asia, International Organization 55:1 (2001), MacIntyre et al., Ch. 1: 1 22 (Andrew MacIntyre, T. J. Pempel, and John Ravenhill, East Asia in the Wake of the Financial Crisis ) 14. August 28 Why Did China Lag? PART IV THE CHINESE EXPERIENCE Justin Yifu Lin, The Needham Puzzle: Why the Industrial Revolution Did Not Originate in China, Working Paper No. 650, UCLA Department of Economics (1992), 1 35 David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (1998), Barry Naughton, The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth (2007), (SKIM) 15. September 2 Transition and Catch Up in China and Vietnam Perkins, Ch. 5: Yingyi Qian, How Reform Worked in China, in Dani Rodrik, ed., In Search of Prosperity: Analytical Narratives on Economic Growth (2003), Barry Naughton, The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth (2007), , (SKIM) PART V REGIONALISM AND GLOBALIZATION 16. September 4 China, the Region, and the World Naazneen Barma and Ely Ratner, China s Illiberal Challenge, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas 2 (Fall 2006), Scott Kennedy, The Myth of the Beijing Consensus, Journal of Contemporary China 19:65 (June 2010), Joshua Kurlantzick, Charm Offensive: How China s Soft Power is Transforming the World (2007), NS3645 Summer 2014 Barma 7

8 17. September 9 East Asian Regionalism MacIntyre et al., Chs. 6 & 8: , (Jennifer Amyx, Regional Financial Cooperation in East Asia since the Asian Financial Crisis; and T. J. Pempel, Restructuring Regional Ties ) C. Fred Bergsten, China and Economic Integration in East Asia: Implications for the United States (2007), 1 10 T. J. Pempel, Soft Balancing, Hedging, and Institutional Darwinism: The Economic-Security Nexus and East Asian Regionalism, Journal of East Asian Studies 10:2 (2010), v FINAL EXAM will be distributed September 11 No class Instructor in Washington DC for research sponsor conference 18. September 16 The Road Ahead and Class Review Perkins, Ch. 6: MacIntyre et al., Conclusion: (Andrew MacIntyre, T. J. Pempel, and John Ravenhill, Conclusion: the Political Economy of East Asia: Directions for the Next Decade ) v FINAL EXAM will be distributed on Tuesday September 9 and is DUE no later than Monday September 22 at 1700 NS3645 Summer 2014 Barma 8