Course Title: International Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region

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1 Course ID Number: REC 5510 Course Title: International Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region No. of Credits: 2 credits Graduate School of International Relations International University of Japan Spring 2011 Instructor: Kumagai, Naoko mkumagai@iuj.ac.jp Office: 323 Phone: 509 International Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region Revised on February 1, 2011 This course seeks to provide an overview of regional competition and cooperation among states in the Asia-Pacific region. Accordingly, students are expected to be familiar with historical and current affairs in the region and to exercise their understanding of basic theories of international relations and international organizations for the analysis of events occurring there. The course begins with a brief introduction of international relations theory and an overview of the region. The main part of the course surrounds contemporary issues of military competition and economic and financial dynamics in the region, with focus on the presence of the United States there and the rise of China. The course also examines the systemic role of Japan in the region and the regionalism of ASEAN and APEC. Beyond these points of emphasis, students are encouraged to introduce further related topics into the discussion. The course concludes with discussion of the future of the region, with attention to recent concerns for human rights. Each session of the course includes lecture and discussion. Students obligations are the completion of weekly reading assignments, active participation in class discussion, one short paper involving theoretical analysis of an assigned topic in the region, and a research paper involving theoretical analysis of a chosen topic relating to the region. 1

2 Policies Students are expected to come to class on time, to attend all the sessions, to complete assigned readings on time, and to submit all the papers on time. Delay in paper submission will affect your grade negatively. If you need to be absent from the class or if you are unable to submit a paper on time, you should contact the instructor in advance. Course Requirements and Grading System -Active class participation (attendance, class preparation, and class discussion): 20% -Three in-class (short answer/ reading comprehension) exams (Closed note exam): 15% -Mid-term exam (Open notes exam in mid-february, 2011): 30% -Final paper: 35% (I will give you more information about the exams as weeks progress.) Penalty for Academic Integrity Violations (cheating, plagiarism): an F grade for the particular assignment, in which the violation takes place. Assessment of papers Grading criteria will be provided in class. Weekly Schedule 1. International Relations Theory and the Regional Overview: The Asia-Pacific Region after the Cold War -G. John Ikenberry, International Relations Theory and the Search for Regional Stability, in G. John Ikenberry and Michael Mastanduno, eds., International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, pp Muthiah Alagappa, The Study of International Order: An Analytical Framework, in Muthiah Alagappa, ed., Asian Security Order, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003, pp David C. Kang, Hierarchy and Stability in Asian International Relations, in Ikenberry and Mastanduno, pp David C. Kang, Getting Asia Wrong: The Need for New Analytical Frameworks, International Security, Vol. 27, No 4, Spring 2003, pp Samuel S. Kim, Regionalization and Regionalism in East Asia, Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2004, pp Robert Jervis, Realism, Neoliberalism, and Cooperation: Understanding the Debate, International Security, Vol. 24, No. 1, Summer, 1999, pp Joseph A. Camilleri, Conceptualizing Region and Regionalism and Asia Pacific as Region, in Regionalism in the New Asia-Pacific Order, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2003, pp

3 2. Power and Security Dilemma -Robert Jervis, Cooperation under the Security Dilemma. World Politics, Vol. 30, No.2, 1978, pp Thomas J. Christensen, China, the U.S.-Japan Alliance, and the Security Dilemma in East Asia, International Security, Vol. 23, No. 4, 1999, pp (Also in Ikenberry and Mastanduno, pp ) -Amitav Acharya, A Concert of Asia? Survival, Vol. 41, No. 3, Autumn 1999, pp Henry R. Nau, Identity and the Balance of Power in Asia, in Ikenberry and Mastanduno, pp James Fearon, Rationalist Explanations for War, International Organization, Vol. 49, No. 3, 1995, pp Robert S. Ross, Comparative Deterrence: The Taiwan Strait and the Korean Peninsula, in Alastair I. Johnston and Robert S. Ross, eds., New Directions in the Study of China s Foreign Policy, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006, pp Victor D. Cha, Hawk Engagement and Preventive Defense on the Korean Peninsula, International Security, Vol. 27, No.1, 2002, pp Thomas J. Christensen, Posing Problems without Catching Up: China s Rise and Challenges for U.S. Security Policy, International Security, Vol. 25, No. 4, Spring 2001, pp International Institutions in the Asia-Pacific Region -Jack Levy, Economic Interdependence, Opportunity Costs, and Peace, in Edward Mansfield and Brian Pollins, eds., Economic Interdependence and International Conflict, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003, pp Miles Kahler, Legalization as Strategy: the Asia-Pacific Case, International Organization, Vol. 54, No. 3, 2000, pp Rosemary Foot, The UN System as a Pathway to Security in Asia: A Buttress, Not a Pillar, in Alagappa, pp Richard E. Feinberg, ed., APEC as an Institution: Multilateral Governance in the Asia-Pacific, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Ron Huisken, Civilizing the Anarchical Society; Multilateral Security Processes in the Asia- Pacific, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 24 No. 2, August 2002, pp John Ravenhill, APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, John S. Duffield, Asia-Pacific Security Institutions in Comparative Perspective, in Ikenberry and Mastanduno, pp Values, Identity and Political Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region 3

4 -Amitav Acharya, Whose Ideas Matter? Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009, pp Peter J. Katzenstein and Christopher Hemmer, Why Is There No NATO in Asia? Collective Identity, Regionalism, and the Origins of Multilateralism, InternationalOrganization, Vol. 56, No. 3, 2002, pp Wm. Theodore De Bary, Asian Values and Human Rights: A Confucian Communitarian Perspective, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Jack Donnelly, Human Rights and Asian Values: A Defense of Western Universalism, in Bauer and Bell, pp Amitav Acharya, The Nexus Between Human Security and Traditional Security in Asia, pp International Conference on Human Security in East Asia, UNESCO, Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Ilmin International Relations Institute of Korea University, June 16-17, 2003, Seoul, Republic of Korea. -Paul Evans, Asian Perspectives on Human Security: A Responsibility to Protect? pp International Conference on Human Security in East Asia. -Arabinda Acharya, Human Security in Asia: Conceptual Ambiguities and Common Understandings, Available at - Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell, Introduction, in Bauer and Bell, eds., The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp Yash Ghai, Rights, Social Justice, and Globalization in East Asia, in Bauer and Bell, pp Amitav Acharya, Promoting Human Security: Ethical, Normative and Educational Frameworks in South-East Asia, in ASEAN-UNESCO Concept Workshop on Human Security in South-East Asia, October 25-27, 2006, Jakarta, Indonesia. -Yoichi Funabashi, ed., Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific, Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, Military and Territorial Conflict in the Asia-Pacific Region -Woosang Kim, Power Parity, Alliance, Dissatisfaction, and Wars in East Asia, , Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 46, No. 5, 2002, pp Jianwei Wang, Territorial Disputes and Asian Security: Sources, Management, and Prospects, in Alagappa, Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features, pp M. Taylor Fravel, Regime Insecurity and International Cooperation: Explaining China s Compromises in Territorial Disputes, International Security, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2005, pp Mark J. Valencia, Asia, the Law of the Sea and International Relations, International Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 2, April 1997, pp Michael O Hanlon, Why China cannot Conquer Taiwan, International Security, Vol. 25, No. 4

5 2, Autumn 2000, pp Kurt M. Campbell and Derek J. Mitchell, Crisis in the Taiwan Strait? Foreign Affairs, Vol. 80, No. 4, July/August 2001, pp Ralf Emmers, Geopolitics and Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia, London: Routledge, Lee Teng-hui, Understanding Taiwan: Bridging the Perception Gap, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 78, No. 6, November/December 1999, pp Suisheng Zhao, Military Coercion and Peaceful Offence: Beijing s Strategy of National Reunification with Taiwan, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 72, No. 4, Winter , pp Economic Interdependence, Financial Crisis, and Regionalism -Ming Wan, Economic Interdependence and Economic Cooperation: Mitigating Conflict and Transforming Security Order in Asia, in Alagappa, pp Jonathan Kirshner, States, Markets, and Great Power Relations in the Pacific: Some Realist Expectations, in Ikenberry and Mastanduno, pp Amitav Acharya, Realism, Institutionalism and the Asian Economic Crisis, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 21, No. 1, April 1999, pp Paul Bowles, Asia s Post-Crisis Regionalism: Bringing the State Back In, Keeping the (United) States Out, Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 2002, pp Stephan Haggard, Introduction, The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis, Institute for International Economics, 2000, pp David P. Rapkin, The United States, Japan and the Power to Block: the APEC and AMF Cases, The Pacific Review, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2001, pp Aaron L. Friedberg, Implications of the Financial Crisis for the US-China Rivalry, Survival, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp Dale Copeland, Economic Interdependence and the Future of U.S.-Chinese Relations, in Ikenberry and Mastanduno, pp China in the Asia-Pacific Region -Randall Schweller, Managing the Rise of Great Powers: History and Theory, in Alastair Iain Johnston and Robert S. Ross, eds., Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power, London: Routledge, 1999, pp John Ikenberry, The Rise of China and the Future of the West: Can the Liberal System Survive? Foreign Affairs, January/February, 2008, pp Thomas J. Christensen, Fostering Stability or Creating a Monster? The Rise of China and U.S. Policy toward East Asia, International Security, Vol. 31, No. 1, Summer 2006, pp

6 -David M. Lampton, ed., The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform , Stanford: Sanford University Press, M. Taylor Fravel, Power Shifts and Escalation: Explaining China s Use of Force in Territorial Disputes, International Security, Vol. 32, No. 3, Winter, , pp Phillip C. Saunders and Scott L. Kastner, Bridge over Troubled Water? Envisioning a China- Taiwan Peace Agreement, International Security, Vol. 33, No. 4, Spring 2009, pp Jacques DeLisle, The China-Taiwan Relationship: Law's Spectral Answers to the Cross-Strait Sovereignty Question, Orbis, Vol. 46, No. 4, Fall 2002, pp Lynn T. White III, PRC, ROC, and U.S. Interests: Can They Be Harmonized? in Shiping Hua, ed., Reflections on the Triangular Relations of Beijing-Taipei- Washington since 1995: Status Quo at the Taiwan Straits?, New York: Palgrave, Joseph H. Nye, China's Re-emergence and the Future of the Asia-Pacific, Survival, Vol. 39, No. 4, Winter , pp Wang Yangzhong, Chinese Values, Governance, and International Relations: Historical Development and Present Situation, in Han Sung-Joo, ed., Changing Values in Asia: Their Impact on Governance and Development, ISEAS, Singapore, Evan A. Feigenbaum, China s Military Posture and the New Economic Geopolitics, Survival, Summer, 1999, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp Alastair Iain Johnston, Is China a Status Quo Power? International Security, Vol. 27, No. 4, Spring 2003, pp Aaron L. Friedberg, The Future of U.S.-China Relations: Is Conflict Inevitable? International Security, Vol. 30, No. 2, Fall 2005, pp Kenneth Lieberthal, Preventing a War over Taiwan, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 84, No. 2, March/April 2005, pp The United States in the Asia-Pacific Region (LITERATURE REVIEW DUE) -Thomas C. Berger, Set for Stability? Prospects for Conflict and Cooperation in East Asia, Review of International Studies, Vol. 26, No. 3, July 2000, pp Leszek Buszynski, Values and Identity in US Asia Pacific Policy, in Asia Pacific Security: Values and Identity, New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004, pp Victor Cha, Multilateral Security in Asia and the U.S.-Japan Alliance, G. John Ikenberry and Takashi Inoguchi, eds., Reinventing the Alliance: U.S.-Japan Security Partnership in an Era of Change, New York: Palgrave, 2003, pp Thomas J. Christensen, Fostering Stability or Creating a Monster? The Rise of China and U.S. Policy toward East Asia, International Security, Vol. 31, No. 1, Summer, 2006, pp Lowell Dittmer, Assessing American Asia Policy, Asian Survey, Vol. 47, No. 4, August 2007, pp G. John Ikenberry and Michael Mastanduno, Conclusion: Images of Order in the Asia-Pacific and the Role of the United States, in Ikenberry and Mastanduno, pp

7 -J. Robert Kerrey and Robert A. Manning, The United States and Southeast Asia: A Policy Agenda for the New Administration, New York: Council on Foreign Relations, Available at: Especially pp ASEAN and APEC in the Asia Pacific Region -Amitav Acharya, The Evolution of ASEAN Norms and the Emergence of the ASEAN Way, in Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order, London: Routledge, 2001, pp Michael Leifer, The ASEAN Regional Forum, Adelphi Paper Number 302, ISIS, London, Richard Stubbs, ASEAN Plus Three: An Emerging East Asian Regionalism? Asian Survey, Vol. 42, No. 3, May 2002, pp Alastair Iain Johnston, Socialization in International Relations: The ASEAN Way and International Relations Theory, in Ikenberry and Mastanduno, pp Takeshi Yuzawa, The Evolution of Preventive Diplomacy in the ASEAN Regional Forum: Problems and Prospects, Asian Survey, Vol. 46, No. 5, Sept.-Oct. 2006, 2006, pp Rémy Davidson, Globalization and Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific, in Michael K. Connors, Rémy Davidson and Jörn Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific, New York: RoutledgeCurzon, pp David Martin Jones and Michael L. R. Smith, Making Process, Not Progress: ASEAN and the Evolving East Asian Regional Order, International Security, Vol. 32, No. 1, Summer 2007, pp Yuen Foong Khong, Coping with Strategic Uncertainty: Institutions and Soft Balancing in ASEAN s Post-Cold War Strategy, in J. J. Suh, Peter Katzenstein, and Allen Carlson, eds., Rethinking Security in East Asia: Identity, Power, and Efficiency, Stanford: Stanford University Press, Japan in the Asia-Pacific Region -Richard J. Samuels, Introduction: Understanding Japan's Grand Strategy, Japan's Grand Strategies: Connecting the Ideological Dots, The New Threat Environment, and Meeting (and Making) Threats, in Securing Japan: Tokyo s Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Masaru Tamamoto, Ambiguous Japan: Japanese National Identity at Century s End, in Ikenberry and Mastanduno, pp Mike M. Mochizuki, Japan s Shifting Strategy Toward the Rise of China, Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 30, No.4-5, August-October 2007, pp William W. Grimes, Institutionalized Inertia: Japanese Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World, in Ikenberry and Mastanduno, pp

8 -Christopher W. Hughes, Japan s Re-emergence as a Normal Military Power, Adelphi Paper No. 368, 2004, Chapter. 1. -Andrew MacIntyre, American and Japanese Strategies in Asia: Dealing with ASEAN, in. Ellis S. Krauss and T.J. Pempel, eds., Beyond Bilateralism, US-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004, pp