Master
2024/2025
Modern Russia's Policies in Asia
Type:
Compulsory course (Socioeconomic and Political Development of Modern Asia)
Area of studies:
Asian and African Studies
Delivered by:
School of Asian Studies
When:
1 year, 1 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Master’s programme:
Socioeconomic and Political Development of Modern Asia
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course concentrates on the several important problems and issues of Asian Studies that are fundamental for the deeper understanding of classical and modern development of East Asia and focuses on the major theoretical and practical issues and problems in Asian Studies as a discipline. The role of theory, both broadly and narrowly understood, in the social sciences and in Asian Studies in particular, will be clarified and their application to specific issues explained. A comparative area studies approach to learning encourages a broader, contextual understanding of the modern Asian development
Learning Objectives
- We will concentrate in several key issues that will be the capstone of understanding of cultural and social development of Asia: The new methodology of comparative approaches to the level of socio-economic development of East Asia. We will focus on significant cultural factors which played an enormous role in the great divergence Europe from Asia. The key problems of transformation of modern East Asian society including the anthropology of civilization, modernity and the state.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- By the end of the course the students are expected to be able to undertake a substantial research project through which to demonstrate their research and analytical skills and how well they can apply a given theoretical understanding and methodology to a set problem.
- By the end of the course the students are expected to be able to undertake a substantial research project through which to demonstrate their research and analytical skills and how well they can apply a given theoretical understanding and methodology to a set problem.
Course Contents
- Teaching Method and Research Methodology. USSR Foreign Policy During the Cold War and Asia
- Russian Foreign Policy after the Cold War and Asia
- China’s ‘Peaceful Rise’ And Russian-Chinese Relations
- Russia’s Relations with India and Japan
- Deterrence and Compliance in Korean Peninsular: North and South Koreas
- China-USA-Taiwan ‘Triangle’ Relations and Russia’s Impact
- Russia and International Economic and Security Institutions in Asia-Pacific Region
Assessment Elements
- Class presence and participation
- Essay
- Participation in oral presentationStudent activity in discussing the presentation
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 1st module0.2 * Class presence and participation + 0.6 * Essay + 0.2 * Participation in oral presentation
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Chang, K., & Lee, C. (2018). North Korea and the East Asian Security order: competing views on what South Korea ought to do. Pacific Review, 31(2), 245–255. https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2017.1397733
- DE GRAAFF, N., & VAN APELDOORN, B. (2018). US——China relations and the liberal world order: contending elites, colliding visions? International Affairs, 94(1), 113–131. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iix232
- Fatton, L. P. V. (DE-588)118975780X, (DE-627)1668455188, aut. (2019). A new spear in Asia why is Japan moving toward autonomous defense? Lionel P Fatton. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.1668463512
- Ganguly, S. (2017). Has Modi Truly Changed India’s Foreign Policy? Washington Quarterly, 40(2), 131. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163660X.2017.1328929
- Gries, P. H., Steiger, D., & Wang, T. (2016). Popular Nationalism and China’s Japan Policy: the Diaoyu Islands protests, 2012–2013. Journal of Contemporary China, 25(98), 264–276. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2015.1075714
- Heiduk, F. (DE-588)128934824, (DE-576)188855157. (2015). Seas of trouble [Elektronische Ressource] : enduring territorial conflicts in East and Southeast Asia / Felix Heiduk; Michael Paul. Translation by Deborah Anne Bowen. Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik.
- Lee, S. (2016). Time to start worrying again? [Elektronische Ressource] : Cross-strait stability after the 2016 Taiwanese elections / Sheryn Lee & Ben Schreer. Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
- Silove, N. (2016). The Pivot before the Pivot. International Security, 40(4), 45–88. https://doi.org/10.1162/ISEC_a_00238
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Kashin, V. V. (DE-588)1185214046, (DE-627)1664568131, aut. (2019). Sino-Russian relations perspectives from Russia, China, and Japan by Vasily Kashin, Ma Bin, Yuki Tatsumi, and Zhang Jian ; the National Bureau of Asian Research. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.1678670421
- Ku, Y. V. (DE-588)1150994398, (DE-627)1011214520, (DE-576)49735862X, aut. (2018). Politics in North and South Korea political development, economy, and foreign relations Yangmo Ku, Inyeop Lee, and Jongseok Woo.
- Schreer, B. (2017). The Double-Edged Sword of Coercion: Cross-Strait Relations After the 2016 Taiwan Elections. Asian Politics & Policy, 9(1), 50–65. https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12290
- Schweller, R. (2018). Opposite but Compatible Nationalisms: A Neoclassical Realist Approach to the Future of US–China Relations. Chinese Journal of International Politics, 11(1), 23–48. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poy003