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| 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. Buckley, Roger. US-Japan Alliance Diplomacy. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 115-137. ISBN: 9780521351416. 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) | |
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