2024/2025
Great Power Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region in the 21st Century
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
36
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course explores the re-emergence of great power competition in the Asia-Pacific region in the 21 century. It provides the historical and political science perspectives of interactions among the great powers in Asia focusing on great power realignment in the region, the rise of China, and on the great powers' strategies to secure their predominance in regional affairs. Students will have the opportunity to analyze the changing nature of power, examine interactions between the great powers from different theoretical perspectives, and assess the models of great power management in the new condition of multipolarity. Special focus is placed on the prospect of power polarization in the region, and the factors that might further instigate great power rivalry and conflict, or, alternatively, secure stability by means of a new, Asian 'concert of great powers'.