グローバル教養科目（Maps, Border Disputes, and Conflict in East Asia）

In this course, students will examine the dynamics of border disputes in East Asia from the nineteenth century to the present day, with the goal of understanding how nebulous imperial frontiers gradually became linear national boundaries. Students will consider the factors that drove East Asian states to map their borderlands in new ways and negotiate territorial claims. Geopolitical, economic, and cultural contexts will be interwoven into the discussions of contested territories and border conflicts. Themes to be explored include the reconceptualization of imperial borderlands in the late nineteenth century; the impact of cartographic discourses and technologies in advancing border claims; the role of territorial disputes in forging ethnic and national identities among border populations; and an in-depth examination of current border conflicts, in particular the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute between China, Taiwan, and Japan; and the Dokdo/Takeshima Dispute between Japan and South Korea.