| LEC # | TOPICS | Readings | |
|---|---|---|---|
| I. Background | |||
| 1 | Introduction | Walt, Steven M. "International Relations: One World, Many Theories." Foreign Policy (Spring 1998): 29-46. Recommended Kim, Samuel S. "Regionalization and Regionalism in East Asia." Journal of East Asian Studies 4 (2004): 39-67.  Morrison, Charles E., ed. "Country Overviews." Asia Pacific Security Outlook 2003. Toyko: Japan Center for International Exchange, 2003. ISBN: 9784889070637. | |
| 2-3 | International Relations Theory and East Asia |
Gordon, Andrew. A Modern History of Japan. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 204-209. ISBN: 9780195110609. Jervis, Robert. "Perception and the Levels of Analysis Problem." In Perception and Misperception in International Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976, pp. 13-31. ISBN: 9780691100494. Walt, Stephen M. "Alliance Formation and the Balance of World Power." International Security 9, no. 4 (Spring 1985): 3-26 only. Schweller, Randall. "Managing the Rise of Great Powers: History and Theory." In Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power. Edited by Alastair Iain Johnston, and Robert S. Ross. London, UK: Routledge, 1999, pp. 1-31. ISBN: 9780415208413.Levy, Jack S. "Domestic Politics and War." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18, no. 4 (Spring 1988): 653-673. Recommended Sagan, Scott D. "Origins of the Pacific War." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18, no. 4 (Spring 1988): 893-922. Waltz, Kenneth. Theory of International Politics. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1979, pp. 116-128. Milner, Helen. "International Theories of Cooperation Among Nations." World Politics 44, no. 3 (April 1992): 466-480 only. Jervis, Robert. "Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma." World Politics 40, no. 1 (January 1978): 167-214. Kowert, Paul, and Jeffrey Legro. "Norms, Identity, and Their Limits: A Theoretical Reprise." In The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics. Edited by Peter Katzenstein. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1996, pp. 451-497, esp. 451-468. ISBN: 9780231104685.Byman, Daniel L., and Kenneth M. Pollack. "Let Us Now Praise Great Men." International Security 25, no. 4 (Spring 2001): 107-146. | |
| 4 | Historical Legacies |
Garver, John. "The Legacy of the Past." In Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992, pp. 2-30. ISBN: 9780133264142. Whiting, Allen S. "Past to the Present." Chapter 2 in China Eyes Japan. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 27-40. ISBN: 9780520065116. Kristof, Nicholas D. "The Problem of Memory." Foreign Affairs (November/December 1998): 37-49. Recommended Snyder, Jack. Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition. New York, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991, pp. 112-152. ISBN: 9780801425325. Gong, Gerrit, ed. Memory and History in East and Southeast Asia. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2002, pp. 86-113. ISBN: 9780892063994. Cumings, Bruce. "Colonial Deformations and Formations: Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam." In Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002, pp. 69-94. ISBN: 9780822329244. Myers, Ramon H., and Mark R. Peattie. The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987, Chapter 1. ISBN: 9780691102221. | |
| II. Early Cold War | |||
| 5 | Origins of the Cold War in East Asia |
LaFeber, Walter. "The Cold War, or the Renewal of U.S.-Russian Rivalry." In The American Age. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1990, pp. 434-470. ISBN: 9780393956115. Dower, John W. "Occupied Japan and the Cold War in Asia." Japan in War and Peace. New York, NY: New Press, 1993, pp. 155-193. ISBN: 1565840674. Gaddis, John Lewis. "Drawing Lines: The Defensive Perimeter Strategy in East Asia, 1947-1951." In The Long Peace: Inquiries Into the History of the Cold War. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 72-104. ISBN: 9780195043358.Recommended Christensen, Thomas J. Useful Adversaries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 77-137. ISBN: 9780691026374.Sheng, Michael M. "Chinese Communist Policy Towards the United States and the Myth of the 'Lost Chance', 1948-1950." Modern Asian Studies 28, no. 3 (1994): 475-502. Rotter, Andrew J. The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American Commitment to Southeast Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989, Chapter 3. ISBN: 9780801496202.Mayers, David. Cracking the Monolith: US Policy Against the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-1955. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986, pp. 33-63. ISBN: 059802820X. Pollard, Robert A. "U.S. Economic Diplomacy in East Asia: The Fall of China and the Reconstruction of Japan, 1945-50." In Economic Security and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-50. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1985, pp. 168-196. ISBN: 9780231058308. | |
| 6 | Korean War I |
LaFeber, Walter. "Korea: The Unexpected War." In The American Age: U.S. Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad. New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 1990, pp. 486-489. ISBN: 9780393956115. Stueck, William. "Why the Korean War, Not the Korean Civil War?" In Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 61-86. ISBN: 9780691088532. Cumings, Bruce. "Collision." In Korea's Place in the Sun. New York, NY: Norton, 1997, pp. 237-264. ISBN: 9780393040111. Weathersby, Kathryn. "Stalin and the Decision for War in Korea." In War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War. Edited by McCann, and Strauss. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, 2001, pp. 88-103. ISBN: 9780765606945. Recommended Cumings, Bruce, and Kathryn Weathersby. "Cumings and Weathersby: An Exchange on Korean War Origins." Cold War International History Project Bulletin 6-7 (Winter 1995-1996): 120-122. Weathersby, Kathryn. "Soviet Aims in Korea and the Origins of the Korean War, 1945-50: New Evidence From the Russian Archives." CWIHP Working Paper No. 8. Jian, Chen. "The Sino-Soviet Alliance and China's Entry into the Korean War." CWIHP Working Paper No. 1, 1992. | |
| 7 | Korean War II |
LaFeber, Walter. "The Big Turn of 1949-1950: Rollback and the Start of a Twenty-Year U.S.-China Conflict." In The American Age. New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 1994, pp. 496-500. ISBN: 9780393964745. Stueck, William. "The Road to Chinese Intervention, July-November 1950." In Rethinking the Korean War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 87-117. ISBN: 9780691088532. Christensen, Thomas J. Useful Adversaries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 148-176, 192-3. ISBN: 9780691026381. Recommended Jian, Chen. "After Inchon: The Making of the Decision on Intervention." In China's Road to the Korean War. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1995, pp. 158-189. ISBN: 9780231100243.Hunt, Michael H. "Beijing and the Korean Crisis, June 1950-June 1951." Political Science Quarterly 107, no. 3 (1992): 453-78. Zhihua, Shen. "Sino-Soviet Relations and the Origins of the Korean War: Stalin's Strategic Goals in the Far East." Journal of Cold War Studies 2, no. 2 (Spring 2000): 44-68. Jervis, Robert. "The Impact of the Korean War on the Cold War." Journal of Conflict Resolution 24, no. 2 (December 1980): 563-592. Zhihua, Shen. "Sino-North Korean Conflict and its Resolution during the Korean War." Cold War International History Project Bulletin, no. 14/15. | |
| 8 | Containment in East Asia |
Pyle, Kenneth B. The Making of Modern Japan. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1996, pp. 227-240. ISBN: 9780669200201. Di, He. "The Evolution of the People's Republic of China's Policy Toward the Offshore Islands (Quemoy, Matsu)." In The Great Powers in East Asia: 1953-60. Edited by Warren I. Cohen, and Akira Iriye. New York, NY: Columbia University Press: 1990, pp. 222-245. ISBN: 9780231071741. LaFeber, Walter. The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History. New York, NY: Norton, 1998, pp. 296-324. ISBN: 9780393318371. Recommended Christensen, Thomas J. Useful Adversaries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 194-241. ISBN: 9780691026374.Qiang, Zhai. "China and the Geneva Conference of 1954." The China Quarterly, no. 129 (June 1992): 103-122. Kahin, George McTurnan. Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986, pp. 34-65. ISBN: 9780394543673. Hess, Gary. "The American Search for Stability in Southeast Asia: The SEATO Structure of Containment." In The Great Powers in East Asia: 1953-60. Edited by Warren I. Cohen, and Akira Iriye. New York, NY: Columbia University Press: 1990, pp. 272-295. ISBN: 9780231071741. Gallicchio, Marc. "Best Defense is a Good Offense" In The Great Powers in East Asia: 1953-60. Edited by Warren I. Cohen, and Akira Iriye. New York, NY: Columbia University Press: 1990, pp. 63-85. ISBN: 9780231071741. | |
| 9-10 | Vietnam War |
Logevall, Frederik. Origins of the Vietnam War. New York, NY: Longman, 2001, pp. 23-92. ISBN: 9780582319189. Jian, Chen. "China's Involvement in the Vietnam War, 1964-1969." The China Quarterly, no. 141 (June 1995): 356-387. Recommended Berman, Larry, and Stephen R. Routh. "Why the United States Fought in Vietnam." Annual Review of Political Science 6 (2003): 181-204. Anderson, David L. "The Vietnam War." In A Companion to American Foreign Relations. Edited by Robert D. Schulzinger. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, pp. 310-329. ISBN: 9780631223153.Ruane, Kevin. "Putting America in its Place? Recent Writing on the Vietnam Wars." Journal of Contemporary History 37, no. 1 (2002): 115-128. | |
| III. Later Cold War | |||
| 11 | Collapse of the China-Soviet Alliance |
Westad, Odd A. "Introduction." In Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963. Edited by Odd A. Westad. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998, pp. 5-32. ISBN: 9780804734844. Mouhong, Xue. The Diplomacy of Contemporary China. Hong Kong: New Horizon Press, 1990, pp. 138-150. ISBN: 9789627176121. Garver, John. Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992, pp. 120-131, 136-41. ISBN: 9780133264142. Yibo, Bo. "The Making of the 'Leaning to One Side' Decision." Chinese Historian 5, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 57-62. Recommended Goncharov, Sergei N., John W. Lewis, and Xue Litai. "Making the Alliance." In Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993, pp. 76-109. ISBN: 9780804721158. Pleshakov, Constantine. "Nikita Khruschev and Sino-Soviet Relations." In Brothers in arms: The rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance, 1945-1963. Edited by Odd A. Westad. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press: Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998, pp. 226-240. ISBN: 9780804734844. Jian, Chen, and Yang Kuisong. "Chinese Politics and the Collapse of the Sino-Soviet Alliance." In Brothers in arms: The rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance, 1945-1963. Edited by Odd A. Westad. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press: Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998, pp. 246-294. ISBN: 9780804734844. Dittmer, Lowell. "Socialist Dependency." In Sino-Soviet Normalization and its International Implications, 1945-1990. Seattle, WA: Washington University Press, 1992, pp. 17-26. ISBN: 9780295971186.Khrushchev, Nikita. Khrushchev Remembers. Boston: Little Brown, 1970, pp. 461-479. | |
| 12 | US-China Rapprochement |
1972 "Shanghai" Communiqué 1972 Sino-Japanese Joint Communiqué Harding, Harry. A Fragile Relationship: The United States And China Since 1972. Washington, DC: Brookings, 1992, pp. 33-47. ISBN: 9780815734666. Dittmer, Lowell. "Romantic Triangle." In Sino-Soviet Normalization and its International Implications, 1945-1990. Seattle, WA: Washington University Press, 1992, pp. 195-206. ISBN: 9780295971186.Recommended Jian, Chen. "The Sino-American Rapprochement: 1968-1972." In Mao's China and the Cold War. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000, pp. 238-276. ISBN: 9780807826171.Burr, William. "Sino-American Relations, 1969: The Sino-Soviet Border War and Steps Towards Rapprochement." Cold War History 1, no. 3 (April 2001): pp. 73-112. Mann, James. About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China, From Nixon to Clinton. New York, NY: Knopf, 1998, pp. 1-77. ISBN: 9780679450535. (skim).Hsiao, Gene T. "The Sino-Japanese Rapprochement: A Relationship of Ambivalence." The China Quarterly, no. 57 (February 1974): 101-123. | |
| 14 | China-Soviet Cold War | Kuisong, Yang. "The Sino-Soviet Border Clash of 1969: From Zhenbao Island to Sino-American Rapprochement." Cold War History 1, no. 1 (2000): 21-52. Dittmer, Lowell. "Sino-American Marriage." In Sino-Soviet Normalization and its International Implications, 1945-1990. Seattle, WA: Washington University Press, 1992, pp. 207-216. ISBN: 9780295971186. Garver, John. "The Period of Sino-Soviet Confrontation." In Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, April 23, 1992, pp. 304-319. ISBN: 9780133264142. Recommended Gelman, Harry. "The Sino-Soviet Dispute in the 1970s: An Overview." In The Sino-Soviet Conflict: A Global Perspective. Edited by Herbert J. Ellison. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1982, pp. 355-372. ISBN: 9780295958545. Jacobsen, Carl G. "Sino-Vietnamese War: Crisis in Sino-Soviet Relations." In Sino-Soviet Relations since Mao. Edited by Carl G. Jacobsen. New York, NY: Praeger, 1981, pp. 92-107. ISBN: 9780030583469. Langer, Paul F. "Soviet Military Power in Asia." In Soviet Policy in East Asia. Edited by Donald Zagoria. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983, pp. 255-282. ISBN: 9780300027389. Bandow, Doug. "A Strategy for Disengagement." In Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1996, pp. 83-101. ISBN: 9781882577293.Gobarev, Viktor M. "Soviet Policy Toward China: Developing Nuclear Weapons 1949-1969." The Journal of Slavic Military Studies 12, no. 4 (1999): 1-53. | |
| 15 | US-China Normalization and Beyond |
1979 Communiqué 1979 Taiwan Relations Act 1982 Communiqué Ross, Robert. "U.S. Relations with China." In The Golden Age of the U.S.-China-Japan Triangle, 1972-1989. Edited by Ezra Vogel et al. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002, pp. 79-105. ISBN: 9780674009608. Harding, Harry. A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China since 1972. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1992, pp. 82-87. ISBN: 9780815734666.Garver, John. "The New Type of Sino-Soviet Relations." Asian Survey 29, no. 12 (December 1989): 1136-1152. Dittmer, Lowell. "Sinocentric Romantic Triangle." In Sino-Soviet Normalization and its International Implications, 1945-1990. Seattle, WA: Washington University Press, 1992, pp. 217-230. ISBN: 9780295971186.Recommended Lee, Chae-Jin. "The Making of the Sino-Japanese Peace and Friendship Treaty." Pacific Affairs 52, no. 3 (Autumn, 1979): 420-445. Freeman, Charles W., Jr. "The Process of Rapprochement: Achievements and Prbolems." In Sino-American Normalization and Its Policy Implications. Edited by Gene T. Hsiao and Michael Witunski. New York, NY: Praeger, 1983, pp. 1-27. ISBN: 9780030580222. Pharr, Susan. "Japan's Defense Foreign Policy and the Politics of Burden-Sharing." In Japan's Foreign Policy After the Cold War: Coping with Change. Edited by Gerald Curtis. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997, pp. 235-264. ISBN: 9781563242168. Segal, Gerald. "Arms Control and Sino-Soviet Relations." In Arms Control in Asia. Edited by Gerald Segal. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 1987, pp. 43-65. ISBN: 9780312004132. | |
| 16 | Maintaining Regional Order I |
Leifer, Michael. ASEAN and the Security of South East Asia. London, UK: Routledge, 1989, pp. 1-15. ISBN: 9780415010085. Acharya, Amitav. "Evolution of Regional Organization." In The Quest for Identity: International Relations of Southeast Asia. Edited by Amitav Acharya. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 78-99. ISBN: 9780195887099. Kurus, Bilson. "Understanding ASEAN: Benefits and Raison D'Etre." Asian Survey 33, no. 9 (August 1993): 819-831. Recommended Acharya, Amitav. "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, UK: Routledge, 2000, pp. 47-79. ISBN: 9780415157629.Hemmer, Christopher, and Peter J. Katzenstein. "Why is There No NATO in Asia? Collective Identity, Regionalism, and the Origins of Multilateralism." International Organization 56, no. 3 (Summer 2002): 575-607. Duffield, John S. "Why is there no APTO? Why is there no OSCAP: Asia Pacific Security Institutions in Comparative Perspective." Contemporary Security Policy 22, no. 2 (Aug. 2001). Crone, Donald. "Does Hegemony Matter?: The Reorganization of the Pacific Political Economy." World Politics 45 (July 1993): 501-525. Leifer, Michael. ASEAN and the Security of South East Asia. New York, NY: Routledge, 1989, pp. 17-88. ISBN: 9780415010085.ASEAN Secretariat | |
| 17 | Financial Miracles |
Islam, Iyanatul, and Anis Chowdhury. The Political Economy of East Asia. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 1-42. ISBN: 9780195540901. Matthews, Trevor, and John Ravenhill. "Strategic Trade Policy: The Northeast Asian Experience." In Business and Government in Industrializing Asia. Edited by Andrew MacIntyre. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995, pp. 29-80. ISBN: 9780801430626. (skim the case studies) Recommended Pempel, T. J. "Transpacific Torii: Japan and the Emerging Asian Regionalism." In Network Power: Japan and Asia. Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, and Takashi Shiraishi. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997, pp. 47-81. ISBN: 9780801433146. Bauer, John. "Economic Growth and Policy in East Asia." In Population Change and Economic Development in East Asia. Edited by Andrew Mason. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, pp. 34-60. ISBN: 9780804743037. Jung-En Woo-Cumings, Meredith. "National Security and the Rise of the Developmental State." In Behind East Asian Growth. Edited by Harry Rowen. New York, NY: Routledge, 1998, pp. 319-337. ISBN: 9780415165198.Cumings, Bruce B. "The Origins and Development of the Northeast Asia Political Economy: Industrial Sectors, Product Cycles and Political Consequences." International Organization 38 (Winter 1984): 1-22. Krugman, Paul. "The Myth of Asia's Miracle." Foreign Affairs (November/December 1994): 62-78. AND Radelet, Steven, and Jeffrey Sachs. "Asia's Re-emergence." Foreign Affairs (November/December 1997). Reference World Bank. East Asian Miracle. London, UK: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780195209938. Stiglitz, Joseph, and Shadid Yusuf. Rethinking the East Asian Miracle. London, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780195216004. | |
| IV. Post-Cold War | |||
| 18 | Ripe for Rivalry? | Friedberg, Aaron. "Ripe for Rivalry: Prospects for Peace in a Multipolar Asia." International Security 18, no. 3 (Winter 1993/1994): 5-33. Berger, Thomas C. "Set for Stability? Prospects for Conflict and Cooperation in East Asia." Review of International Studies 26, no. 3 (July 2000): 405-428. Huxley, Tim, and Susan Willet. Arming East Asia. Adelphi Paper No. 329. London, UK: IISS, 1999, pp. 15-22, 65-77. Recommended Kang, David C. "Getting Asia Wrong: The Need for New Analytical Frameworks." International Security 27, no. 4 (Spring 2003): 57-85. Acharya, Amitav. "Will Asia's Past Be Its Future?" International Security 28, no. 3 (Winter 2003/04): 149-164. Ross, Robert S. "The Geography of Peace: East Asia in the Twenty-first Century." International Security 23, no. 4 (Spring 1999): 81-118. Christensen, Thomas J. "China, The US-Japan Alliance, And The Security Dilemma In East Asia." International Security 23, no. 4 (Spring 1999): 49-80. Nye, Joseph S., Jr. "The Case for Deep Engagement." Foreign Affairs (July/August 1995): 90-102. AND Johnson, Chalmers, and E. B. Keehn. "The Pentagon's Ossified Strategy." Foreign Affairs (July/August 1995): 103-114. Department of Defense. The United States Security Strategy For The East Asia-Pacific Region 1998. (PDF - 2.3 MB) | |
| 19 | Rise of China | Friedberg, Aaron. "The Struggle for Mastery in Asia." Commentary (November 2000): 17-26. ISBN: B0008HI92Q. Johnston, Alastair Iain. "Is China a Status Quo Power?" International Security 27, no. 4 (Spring 2003): 5-12, 25-49. Mochizuki, Mike M. "Terms of Engagement: The US-Japan Alliance and the Rise of China." In Beyond Bilateralism. Edited by Krauss, and Pempel. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003, pp. 87-114. ISBN: 9780804749091.Brzezinski, Zbigniew, and John Mearsheimer. "Can China Rise Peacefully? A Debate." Foreign Policy (January/February 2005). Recommended Betts, Richard K., and Thomas J. Christensen. "China: Getting the Questions Right." The National Interest (Winter 2000): 17-29. Goldstein, Avery. "Great Expectations: Interpreting China's Arrival." International Security 22, no. 3 (Winter 1997/98): 36-73, esp. 62-71. Jisi, Wang. "China's Changing Role in Asia." In The Rise of China and A Changing East Asian Order. Edited by Kokubun Ryosei, and Wang Jisi. Tokyo: Japan Center for International Exchange, 2004, pp. 3-22. Economist Oct 2004 Survey on China's Economy Two of the following: 1. Segal, Gerald. "Does China Matter?" Foreign Affairs (September/October 1999): 24-36. AND Sutter, Robert. "Why Does China Matter?" The Washington Quarterly (Winter 2004): 75-89. (PDF) 2. Bernstein, Richard, and Ross H. Munro. "China I: The Coming Conflict With America." Foreign Affairs (March-April 1997): 18-32. AND Ross, Robert S. "China II: Beijing as a Conservative Power." Foreign Affairs (March/April 1997): 33-44. 3. Brown, Harold, Joseph W. Prueher, and Adam Segal. Chinese Military Power: Report of an Independent Task Force. New York, NY: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2004.(skim) AND Gill, Bates, and Michael O'Hanlon. "China's Hollow Military." The National Interest (Summer 1999): 55-62. AND Lilley, James R., and Carl Ford. "China's Military: A Second Opinion." The National Interest (Fall 1999): 71-77. 4. Green, Michael J. "Managing Chinese Power: The View from Japan." In Engaging China. pp. 152-175. AND Self, Benjamin. "China and Japan: A Façade of Friendship." The Washington Quarterly (Winter 2003): 77-88. (PDF) 5. Acharya, Amitav. "Seeking Security In The Dragon's Shadow: China and Southeast Asia In The Emerging Asian Order." IDSS Working Paper, no. 44 (March 2003). (PDF) AND Chung, Jae Ho. "South Korea Between Eagle and Dragon: Perceptual Ambivalence and Strategic Dilemma." Asian Survey 41, no. 5 (September-October 2001): 777-796. | |
| 20 | Financial Crisis and Regionalism |
Winters, Jeffrey. "The Determinants of Financial Crisis in Asia." In The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis. Edited by T. J. Pempel. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780801437229. Hughes, Helen. "Crony Capitalism And The East Asian Currency And Financial 'Crises'." Policy (Spring 1999): 3-9. (  PDF)Webber, Douglas. "Two Funerals and a Wedding? The Ups and Downs of Regionalism in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific after the Asian Crisis." The Pacific Review 14, no. 3 (2001): 339-372. Recommended Fischer, Stanley. "The Asian Financial Crisis: A View from the IMF." (January 1998). Wade, Robert. "Wheels within Wheels: Rethinking the Asian Crisis and the Asian Model." Annual Review of Political Science 3 (2000): 85-115. Acharya, Amitav. "Realism, Institutionalism and the Asian Economic Crisis." Contemporary Southeast Asia 21, no. 1 (April 1999): 1-29. Corsetti, Giancarlo, Paolo Pesenti, and Nouriel Roubini. "What Caused the Asian Currency and Financial Crisis?" Japan and the World Economy 11 (1999): 305-373. (skim first half) Haggard, Stephan. The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis. (Institute for International Economics, 2000), Introduction. Asia Financial Crisis Web site | |
| 21 | Maintaining Regional Order II | Leifer, Michael. The ASEAN Regional Forum. Adelphi Paper No. 302 (July 1996): 31-60. Khong, Yuen Foong. "Making Bricks without Straw in the Asia Pacific?" The Pacific Review 10, no. 2 (1997): 289-300. Clad, James. "Fin de Siecle, Fin de l'ASEAN." PacNet, 3 March 2000 Cha, Victor. "Multilateral Security in Asia and the U.S.-Japan Alliance." In Reinventing the Alliance: U.S.-Japan Security Partnership in an Era of Change by G. John Ikenberry, and Takashi Inoguchi. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2003, pp. 141-162. ISBN: 9781403963154.Glosserman, Brad. "ARF is Now a Big Dog Barking." Global Beat Syndicate 26 August 2002 Glosserman, Brad. "ASEAN + 3 Leads the Way." PacNet, December 7, 2004. Recommended Acharya, Amitav. "Regional Institutions and Asian Security Order: Norms, Power and Prospects for Peaceful Change." In Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features. Edited by Muthiah Alagappa. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002, pp. 210-240. ISBN: 9780804746281.ARF Concept Paper (1995) One of the following groups: 1. Yuan, Jing-dong. "Chinese Perspectives on Multilateralism: Implications for Cooperative Security in Asia Pacific." In Policymaking and Peace. Edited by Stuart Nagel. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2003, pp. 103-127. AND Ba, Alice. "China and ASEAN: Renavigating Relations for a 21st Century Asia." Asian Survey 43, no. 4 (2003): 622-647. 2. Stubbs, Richard. "ASEAN Plus Three: An Emerging East Asian Regionalism?" Asian Survey 42, no. 3 (May 2002): 440-455. AND Hund, Markus. "ASEAN Plus Three: Towards A New Age Of Pan-East Asian Regionalism? A Skeptic's Appraisal." The Pacific Review 16, no. 3 (2003): 383-417. 3. Acharya, Amitav. "Ideas, Identity, and Institution-Building: From the ASEAN Way to the Asia-Pacific Way?" The Pacific Review 10, no. 3 (1997): 319-346. AND Johnston, Alastair Iain. "Socialization in International Institutions." In International Relations Theory and the Asia Pacific. Edited by G. John Ikenberry, and Michael Mastanduno. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2003, pp. 107-162. ISBN: 9780231125918. | |
| 22 | Crisis in the Taiwan Straits? |
Shui-Bian, Chen. "Inaugural Address." Taiwan Affairs Office, May 17th Statement Lijun, Sheng. China's Dilemma: The Taiwan Issue. Singapore: I. B. Tarius, 2001, pp. 25-35. Lee, Bernice. The Security Implications of the New Taiwan. Adelphi Paper No. 331 (1999): 13-42. Christensen, Thomas J. "The Contemporary Security Dilemma: Deterring a Taiwan Conflict." Washington Quarterly 25, no. 4 (Fall 2002): 7-21. (PDF) ———. "Posing Problems without Catching Up: China's Rise and Challenges for US Security Policy." International Security 25, no. 4 (Spring 2001): 14-21 only. Recommended Ross, Robert. "The Stability of Deterrence in the Taiwan Straits." The National Interest (Fall 2001): 67-76. Roy, Denny. "Tensions in the Taiwan Strait." Survival 42, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 76-96. Goldstein, Steve M. "The Taiwan Strait: A Continuing Status Quo of Deadlock." Cambridge Review of International Affairs 15, no. 1 (April 2002): 85-94. Dittmer, Lowell. "Taiwan and the Issue of National Identity." Asian Survey 44, no. 4 (Aug 2004): 475-483. Glosny, Michael A. "Strangulation from the Sea? A PRC Submarine Blockade of Taiwan." International Security 28, no. 4 (Spring 2004): 125-160. Ross, Robert. "The 1996 Taiwan Strait Confrontation: Coercion, Credibility and Use of Force." International Security 25, no. 2 (Fall 2000): 87-123. Romberg, Alan. Rein in at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and US-PRC Relation. (Washington: Henry J. Stimson Center, 2003) (skim, but this is a key work) | |
| 23 | Crisis on the Korean Peninsula? | Pollack, Jonathan D. "The United States, North Korea, and the end of the Agreed Framework." Naval War College Review (Summer 2003): 11-48. (PDF) Pritchard, Charles. "The Korean Nuclear Crisis and Beyond." In Northeast Asia Survey 2003-2004. Edited by Richard Bush. Washington: Brookings, 2004, pp. 1-14. (PDF) Reference Squassoni, Sharon A. "North Korea's Nuclear Weapon." CRS Report no. S21391 (2 February 2004). (PDF) Recommended Saunders, Phillip C. "Confronting Ambiguity: How to Handle North Korea's Nuclear Program." Arms Control Today (March 2003). Smith, Hazel. "Bad, Mad, Sad or Rational Actor? Why the Securitization Paradigm Makes for Poor Policy Analysis of North Korea." International Affairs 76, no. 3 (July 2000): 593-617. Cha, Victor D. "Hawk Engagement and Preventive Defense on the Korean Peninsula." International Security 27, no. 1 (Summer 2002): 40-78. Ming, Liu. "China and the North Korean Crisis: Facing Test and Transition." Pacific Affairs 76, no. 3 (2003): 347-373. Sigal, Leon V. "North Korea Is No Iraq: Pyongyang's Negotiating Strategy." Arms Control Today (December 2002). | |
| 25 | East Asia After September 11th |
Abuza, Zachary. "Terrorism: The War on Terrorism in Southeast Asia." Strategic Asia 2003-04. Seattle, WA: NBR, 2003, pp. 321-364. ISBN: 9780971393837. Heginbotham, Eric, and Richard J. Samuels. "Japan's Dual Hedge." Foreign Affairs 81, no. 5 (September/October 2002): 110-121. Swaine, Michael. "China: Exploiting a Strategic Opening." Strategic Asia 2004-05. Seattle, WA: NBR, 2004: 67-80 only. ISBN: 9780971393851.Ikenberry, G. John. "American Hegemony and East Asian Order." Australian Journal of International Affairs 58, no. 3 (September 2004): 353-367. Recommended Capie, David. "Between a Hegemon and a Hard Place: the 'War on Terror' and Southeast Asian-US Relations." The Pacific Review 17, no. 2 (June 2004): 223-248. Ness, Peter Van. "Hegemony, Not Anarchy: Why China and Japan Are Not Balancing US Unipolar Power." International Relations of the Asia Pacific 2 (2002): 131-150. Eberstadt, Nicholas. "Power And Population In Asia Demographics And The Strategic Balance." Policy Review, no. 123 (February-March 2004). Hudson, Valerie M., and Andrea Den Boer. "A Surplus of Males: A Deficit of Peace: Security and Sex Ratios in Asia's Largest States." International Security 26, no. 4 (Spring 2002): 5-38. Buzan, Barry. "Security Architecture in Asia: The Interplay of Regional and Global Levels." The Pacific Review 16, no. 2 (2003): 143-173. | |
| 26 | Conclusion | ||
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