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科目名稱：亞太區域發展

Course Name: Asia-Pacific Regional Development
  • 學年學期：110-2 Spring Semester, 2022
  • 科目代碼：926015001 Course No.926015001

修別：群

Type of Credit: Partially Required

3.0

學分數

Credit(s)

12

預收人數

Number of Students

課程資料Course Details
  • 開課單位：亞太碩一 Course Department:International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies/M/1
  • 授課老師：李瓊莉 Instructor:
  • 先修科目：無Prerequisite(N/A)
  • 上課時間：一567 Session: mon14-17

課程簡介Course Description

Please Note that this class will start on Feb. 14, 202. Discussions in the first class will be very critical to this course. Only those who show up at the first class will be possibly included in the class.

Course Description

 This is neither an “economic development” nor an “area study” course. Instead, it offers an overview of recent developments in the Asia-Pacific region as the foundation of further studies. The intellectual discipline is International Relations.

To define the scope of our class discussions, we will first clarify how regional studies different from area studies. Students are expected to define Asia Pacific as a region based on designated reading assignments.

 

After defining the region, two major themes will be covered:

 1) regional political economy. Focuses will be on the role of state governments in shaping regional trade and investment flows. In addition to economic statecrafts of major powers (including the U.S., Japan and China), concepts driving regional development and integration (such as the developmental state model and the flying geese paradigm) will be explored. Recent policy-led region-wide networks, processes or mechanisms which have developed into institutions for regional economic governance, especially those with great long-term strategic implications, will be reviewed.

 2) geo-strategic and security issues. Concerns in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia will be addressed separately as they are not quite the same in nature. Developments in hotspots such as the Korean Peninsula, the Taiwan Strait, and the South China Sea will be examined. In terms of responses to security threats, both US-led and ASEAN-centered regional security architecture will be studied. China’s rise, the key element in regional security, will be highlighted in all dimensions of our exploration. At the end, Taiwan in the region’s geo-economic and geo-strategic dynamics will be discussed.

 

Weekly readings will be collected and posted online. Students are expected to finish the reading assignments before the class, think critically, and then participate in class discussions.

 

The course is designed to learn from doing. Students are expected to conduct a mini project independently. The theme for the project is “Then and Now: constants vs. variables”. Students are expected to contrast regional policies of one single regional power (or middle power) over different periods of time and analyze the most updated developments.

 

核心能力分析圖 Core Competence Analysis Chart

能力項目說明

    課程目標與學習成效Course Objectives & Learning Outcomes

    The objective is to examine trends of selective politico-economic and politico-security issues in Asia Pacific. Students are expected to learn from critically reviewing reading assignments and independently conducting a mini project.

    每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

     

    2/14                 Course Introduction & Planning

     

    2/21                 Class 1: Asia Pacific as a Region (I)

                            Presenters:

    1. George Peter Murdock, “The Conceptual Basis of Area Research”, World Politics, Vol. 2, No. 4 (July 1950), pp. 571-578.
    2. Amitav Acharya, International Relations and Area Studies: Towards a New Synthesis? (Singapore: IDSS working paper No. 2)
    3. Rick Fawn, 2009, “Regions and Their Study: where from, what for and where to?” Review of International Studies, 35, pp.5-34

     

    2/28                 228 National Holiday

     

    3/7                   Class 2: Asia Pacific as a Region (II)

                            Presenters:    

    1. Camilleri, Joseph A. 2003. "Asia Pacific As Region", in Regionalism in the New Asia-Pacific Order: The Political Economy of the Asia-Pacific Region, Volume II (UK: Edward Elgar, 2003) pp. 28-54.
    2. Amitav Acharya, 2010. "Asia Is Not One", The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 69, No. 4 (November 2010), pp. 1001-1013.
    3. T. J. Pempel, "Emerging Webs of Regional Connectedness", in T. J. Pempel, ed. Remapping East Asia: the Construction of Region (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005), pp. 1-28

     

    3/14                 Class 3: Asia Pacific as a Region (III)

                            Presenters:

    1. Peter A. Petri (1993). “The Lessons of East Asia: Common Foundations of East Asian Success. Washington DC: World Bank

    2. Dennis Tachiki “Between Foreign Direct Investment and Regionalism: The Role of Japanese Production Networks”, in T. J. Pempel, ed. Remapping East Asia: the Construction of Region (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005), pp. 149-169

    3. Shigehisa Kasahara (2013). “The Asian Developmental State and the Flying Geese Paradigm”, UNCTAD Discussion Papers No. 213.

     

    3/21                 Class 4. U.S.

                            Presenters:

    1. Mitchell Bernard and John Ravenhill (1995) “Beyond Product Cycles and Flying Geese: Regionalization, Hierarchy, and the Industrialization of East Asia”, World Politics, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 171-209
    2. James A. III Baker, 1991 “America in Asia: Emerging Architecture for a Pacific Community. Foreign Affairs, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 1- 18
    3. Daniel Twining, 2007. “America’s Grand Design in Asia”, Washington Quarterly, Vol. 30, no.3, pp. 79-94.

     

    3/28                 Class 5: Japan

                            Presenters: 3 summaries

    1. Sudo, Sueo (1988). “Japan-ASEAN Relations: New Dimensions in Japanese Foreign Policy”. Asian Survey, Vol. 28, No. 5 (May, 1988), pp. 509-525
    2. Alan Rix, 1989-1990. “Japan’s Foreign Aid Policy: A Capacity for Leadership?”, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 461-475.
    3. Solís, Mireya (2014). “Chapter 8: Japan’s Foreign Economic Policies”. The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia (Oxford University Press), pp.141-159
    4. Kei Koga, 2019. “Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy: Tokyo’s Tactical Hedging and the Implications for ASEAN”, Contemporary Southeast Asia Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 286-313.

     

    4/4                   Spring Break

     

    4/11                 mid-term exam week, no class

     

    4/18                 Class 6: China

                            Presenters:

    1. Christoffersen, Gaye (1996). “China and the Asia-Pacific: Need for a Grand Strategy”. Asian Survey, Vol. 36, No. 11 (November, 1996), pp. 1067-1085
    2. Wong, John (2013). “Commentary: A China-centric economic order in East Asia”. Asia Pacific Business Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp.286-296
    3. Hoang Thi Ha (2019). “Understanding China’s Proposal for an ASEAN-China Community of Common Destiny and ASEAN’s Ambivalent Response”, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 223-54.
    4. Francois Godement (2015), “One Belt, One Road”: China’s Great Leap Outward”, China Analysis, June 2015.

     

    4/25         Class 7: Middle Powers

                            Presenters:

    1. Jordaan, Eduard (2003). “The Concept of a Middle Power in International Relations: Distinguishing between Emerging and Traditional Middle Powers”. Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 165-181.
    2. Ungerer, Carl (2007). “The “Middle Power” Concept in Australian Foreign Policy”. Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 53, Issue 4, pp. 538-551.
    3. Karim, Moch Faisal (2018)). “Middle power, status-seeking and role conceptions: the cases of Indonesia and South Korea”. Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 72, No. 4, pp.343–363
    4. Efstathopoulos, Charalampos (2011). “Reinterpreting India's Rise through the Middle Power Prism”. Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol.19, No.1 (April 2011), pp. 74-95

     

    5/2       Class 8: Regional Economic Architecture

                            Presenters:

    1. Terada, Takashi (1999). “The Genesis of APEC: Australian-Japan Political Initiatives”. Pacific Economic Papers (Australia–Japan Research Centre, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management, The Australian National University), No. 298
    2. Mireya Solís & Jeffrey D. Wilson (2017). “From APEC to mega-regionals: the evolution of the Asia-Pacific trade architecture”. The Pacific Review, Vo. 30, No. 6, pp. 923-937
    3. Mark Beeson (2018). “Geoeconomics with Chinese characteristics: the BRI and China’s evolving grand strategy”. Economic and Political Studies, Vol. 6, No.3, pp. 240-256

     

    5/9                   Class 9: Northeast Asia Security

    Presenters:

    1. Kim Sung-han (2008). “Searching for a Northeast Asian peace and security mechanism”. Asian Perspective, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 127-156
    2. Sakata, Yosuyo (2011). “Chapter 6: Korea and the Japan-U.S. Alliance: A Japanese Perspective”. The U.S.-Japan Security Alliance (Palgrave Macmillan). pp. 91-117
    3. Revere, Evans J. R. (2013). “The United States and Japan in East Asia: Challenges and Prospects for the Alliance”. American Foreign Policy Interests, No. 35, pp. 188-197

     

    5/16                 Class 10: Southeast Asia Security

                            Presenters:

    1. Arase, David (2010). “Non-Traditional Security in China-ASEAN Cooperation: The Institutionalization of Regional Security Cooperation and the Evolution of East Asian Regionalism”. Asian Survey, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 808-833
    2. International Crisis Group (2012). “Stirring up the South China Sea (II): Regional Responses. Crisis Group Asia Report, No.9
    3. Emmers, Ralf (2014). “ASEAN’s Search for Neutrality in the South China Sea”. Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 61-77

     

     

    5/23                 Class 11: Regional Security Architecture

                            Presenters:

    1. Ba, Alice D. (2017). “ASEAN and the Changing Regional Order: The ARF, ADMM, and ADMM-Plus”. ASEAN @ 50, Vol. 4, pp. 146-157
    2. Cha, Victor D. (2014). “American Alliances and Asia’s Regional Architecture”. The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of East Asia (Oxford University Press), pp. 737-757
    3. Green, Michael J. (2014). “Strategic Asian Triangles”. The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of East Asia (Oxford University Press), pp. 757-744

     

    5/30                 Mini project presentation I

     

    6/6                   Mini Project Presentation II

     

    6/13                 Mini Project Due, email: cllee@nccu.edu.tw

     

    授課方式Teaching Approach

    30%

    講述 Lecture

    20%

    討論 Discussion

    20%

    小組活動 Group activity

    10%

    數位學習 E-learning

    20%

    其他： Others: mini project

    評量工具與策略、評分標準成效Evaluation Criteria

    1. Class attendance: 20%, -2 for each absence without advanced notice.
    2. 3 Reading Summary Presentations: 15%
    3. 5 Reading Critiques (no more than 500 words each) 25%
    4. Class participation and discussion: 20%
    5. Mini project 20% (one presentation + one final report, no more than 1000 words)

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