International Relations of Northeast Asia.

FINAL EXAMINATION, June 2013

Questions:

  1. Northeast Asia as an international-political region (international regional system) in the context of the Asia-Pacific and global politics.
  2. Characteristics of NEA as an international system.
  3. Demographic Factors of International Politics in Northeast Asia.
  4. Nuclear Weapons and Strategic Stability in Northeast Asia.
  5. Emerging Institutional Architecture in Northeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific.
  6. China in Northeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific.
  7. Japan in Northeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific.
  8. Russia in Northeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific.
  9. China-US relations in Northeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific.
  10. The Asia-Pacific’s Emerging Geopolitical Order

Literature

Students are expected to demonstrate their familiarity with the following titles that they were supposed to have read during the course.

  1. Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features. Edited by Muthiah Alagappa. Stanford: StanfordUniversity Press, 2003. (Chapter 2. Constructing Security Order in Asia).
  2. Barry Buzan, Ole Waever. Regions and Powers: the structure of international security. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2003. (Chapter 6. The 1990s and Beyond: an emergent East Asian complex).
  3. Kent Calder, Min Ye. The Making of Northeast Asia. Stanford: StanfordUniversity Press, 2010. (Chapter 1. Northeast Asia in Global Perspective).
  4. International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific. Ed. by G. John Ikenberry and Michael Mastanduno. New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press, 2003. (Introduction).
  5. Aaron L. Friedberg. Ripe for Rivalry: Prospects for Peace in a Miltipolar Asia. International Security. Vol. 18, No3 (Winter 1993-4), pp. 5-33.
  6. Political Demography. Ed. by Jack A. Goldstone, Eric P. Kaufmann, Monica Duffy Toft. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2012. (Chapter 3. Demography and Geopolitics).
  7. Kenneth Waltz. “Nuclear Myths and Political Realities”, in Realism and International Politics.New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 276-293.
  8. Muthiah Alagappa. “Nuclear Weapons Reinforce Security and Stability in 21st Century Asia”. 2009.
  9. T.J. Pempel. Security Architecture in the Asia-Pacific: Pax Americana or Concert of Powers? Paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, February 2010.
  10. John Mearsheimer. The Rise of China Will Not Be Peaceful At All. The Australian. Nov. 18, 2005.
  11. Joseph S. Nye. Work With China, Don’t Contain It. The New York Times, Jan. 26, 2013.

The final exam will be administered in an oral form. Students will be assigned by the instructor two questions from the list: one question will be drawn from the lecture topics (No1-10), the other from the literature titles (No 11-21). Students will have 30-40 minutes to prepareand, if they wish, make notes on paper for their answers (without using any books, notebooks and other support materials or gadgets). Then they will be interviewed by the instructor.