Advanced Seminar in International Peace and Security II

Fall 2016

Advanced Seminar in International Peace and Security II

* Professor: Kim Sung-han

Email:

O) 3290-2425; C) 010-5542-7644

* Class Hours: 19:00-22:00 Wednesday

1. Purpose of the Seminar

Since the end of the Cold War, identity, geography, purpose, and regional influence have been the thematic undercurrents shaping Asian regional architecture. A more confident Asia seeks to build on its successes and common experience to establish more readily identifiable Asian institutions. This has led to debates over whether countries geographically outside of a traditionally defined Asia should have a place at the table of Asian regional arrangements. Thus, the U.S.-led“Asia-Pacific” approach has been put forward in contrast to the China-led“East Asian community” approach. Differences arise over the purpose and goals of the various elements of the Asian regional architecture. In this light, this seminar aims at exploring 1) the myth and reality of the East Asian community; 2) how major powers perceive and respond to regionalism; 3) strategic and policy implications for Korea.

2. Readings: Packet of Readings (Hoomunsa)

3. Evaluation

Attendance (10%); Presentation & Participation (20%); Mid-Term Exam (30%);

Term Paper (40%)

4. Plan

Week 1: Course Introduction and Reading Assignment

Week 2: Peace and Security (1)

Azar Gat, “The Democratic Peace Theory Reframed: The Impact of Modernity,” World Politics, 58(1), October 2005.

John J. Mearsheimer, “Structural Realism”in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith, eds., International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, 3rd Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)

Week 3: Peace and Security (2)

Sunzanne Nossel, “Smart Power,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2004.

Christopher Ferrero, “Constructivism & US-Iran Relations”

Week 4: Eurasian Great Power Politics

Zbigniew Brzezinki, “A Geostrategy for Eurasia,” Foreign Affairs, Vol.76 No.5, September/October 1997.

Walter Russell Mead, “The End of History Ends,” The American Interest, December 2013.

Week 5: Myth and Reality of East Asian Community

Amitav Acharya, “The Imagined Community of East Asia,”Korea Observer, Fall 2006.

Sung-Joo Han, “Roadmap for an East Asian Community,”IRI Review10(2), 2005.

Week 6: East Asian Community and China

David Shambaugh, “China Engages Asia: Reshaping the Regional Order,”International Security, Winter 2004/05.

Dana Dillon & John Tkacik, Jr., “China and ASEAN: Endangered American Primacy in Southeast Asia,”Backgrounder (Heritage Foundation), October 2005.

Week 7: East Asian Community and the United States

Thomas Christensen, “Fostering Stability or Creating a Monster?: The Rise of China and U.S. Policy toward East Asia,”International Security, Summer 2006.

Simon Tay, “An East Asian Community and the United States: An East Asian Perspective,” Singapore Institute of International Affairs, 2005.

Week 8: Mid-Term Exam (In-Class)

Week 9: America’s Strategic Vision in East Asia

Daniel Twining, “America’s Grand Design in Asia,”The Washington Quarterly, Summer 2007.

Tom Donillon, “ The United States and the Asia-Pacific in 2013,” The Asia Society, March 11, 2013.

Week 10: U.S.-China Cooperation and Competition

Randall L. Schweller and Xiaoyu Pu, “After Unipolarity: China’s Visions of International Order in an Era of U.S. Decline,” International Security, 36(1), Summer 2011.

Leszek Buszynski, “Chinese Naval Strategy, the United States, ASEAN, and the South China Sea,” Security Challenges, 8(2), Winter 2012.

Week 11: ROK-U.S. Alliance and China-Japan Relations

Kim Sung-han, “From Blood Alliance to Strategic Alliance,” The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, 22(3), September 2010.

Lyle J. Goldstein, “The World’s Most Dangerous Rivalry: China and Japan,” The National Interest, September 2014.

Week 12: Regional Impulses in Northeast Asia

Scott Snyder, “U.S. Domestic Politics and Multilateral Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia,” CFR, December 2009.

Hitoshi Tanaka, “Japan’s Foreign Policy and East Asian Regionalism,” CFR, December 2009.

Suisheng Zhao, “Chinese Nationalism and Approaches toward East Asian Regional Cooperation,” CFR, December 2009.

Week 13: Multilateral Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia

Sung-han Kim, “Searching for a Northeast Asian Peace and Security Mechanism,” Asian Perspective, Vol.32, No.4, 2008.

Sergey Radchenko, “Multilateralism in Northeast Asia,” The Asan Forum, May 2014.

Week 14: Korean Peninsula

Center for US-Korea Policy, “North Korean Contingency Planning and US-ROK Cooperation,” September 2009.

Paul Stares, “Military Escalation in Korea,” Council on Foreign Relations, November 2010.

Week 15: Leadership in East Asia

President Xi Jinping, Remarks at CICA, May 21, 2014.

Remarks of President Barack Obama, May 28, 2014.

Week 16: Term-Paper Proposal Presentationand Conclusion

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