History of International Interdependence I

Session 1 Guidance and Introduction Session 2 Asia after COVID-19 Session 3 US-China Rivalry Session 4 Historical Development of Asian Security Order Session 5 Japan's foreign and security policy Session 6 Taiwan Strait Session 7 Korean Peninsula Session 8 South China Sea Session 9 Presentations on op-ed style essay Session 10 Australia, India, Europe and Russia Session 11 Non-traditional Security Topics Session 12 Presentations on research paper Session 13 Presentations on research paper (2)

Lecture(~session5), Student Presentations and discussions (session 6-11), and research paper

Attendance and Participation (10%) Two group presentations (20 %) One op-ed length essays (~850 words) (20%) A short research paper (50%) (4000 ~ 5000 words)

Selected journal articles and book chapters (syllabus will be distributed in the first week of the semester; old syllabus is available upon request)

1.Asia Pacific Regional Security Assessment London: IISS. 2.Joseph Chinyong Liow, Ambivalent Engagement: The United States and Regional Security in Southeast Asia After the Cold War, Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2017. 3.Alice Lyman Miller and Richard Wich, 2011, Becoming Asia, Stanford University Press. 4.David Shambaugh, 2022, International Relations of Asia, third edition, Rowman and Littlefield.

The first class will be held by online. From the second week, we meet online or in-person. Classroom is located at IASA (Tobunken), Hongo campus (a few minutes walk from GrasPP). The enrollment is limited to about 10 students. To get permission to register, students need to submit the short assignment after the first class. The length of the class is 105 minutes.