Course Description

Politics is all around us, in the media and in daily life. Often it”s difficult to make sense of all the different actors, their fundamental ideas, their ambitions, their speeches, laws and provisions, their goals, and the short-term and long-term consequences. This course wants to provide a structure and an analytical framework developed by political scientists over the last two-thousand years.

政治はメディアや日常生活のいたるところにある。政治を演じる者たちすべてを理解し、その基本的考え方、野心、スピーチ、法および規則、ゴール、短期的・長期的結果を理解することは、しばしば困難である。このコースは、過去二千年以上にわたって政治学者が開発してきた分析の枠組みと構造を提供する。

Week 1 Introduce traditional security issues that exist between Japan and China. Develop students’ understanding of the difference between traditional security (TS) and non-traditional security (NTS).

Key concepts: Traditional security, Power relations

Week 2 Introduce Chinese views on US-Japan Alliance and the TS issues associated with it.

Key Concepts: Traditional security, Power relations

Week 3 Introduce NTS issues facing Japan and China and potential areas for cooperation.

Key concepts: Non-traditional security

Week 4 Discuss the politics of memory in both Japan and China.

Key concepts: Nationalism, memory production, domestic politics

Jan 07 Week 5 Explore how Japan and China are formulating their bilateral and regional relations based.

Key concepts: Bilateralism, Multilateralism, Engagement, Containment, Integration

Jan 14 Week 6 Explore how Japan and China are formulating their bilateral and regional relations based.

Key concepts: Bilateralism, Multilateralism, Engagement, Containment, Integration

Jan 18 Week 6 Explore how Japan and China are formulating their bilateral and regional relations based.

Key concepts: Bilateralism, Multilateralism, Engagement, Containment, Integration

Jan 25 Week 7 Changes in Architecture and Economic Development in Japan

Explore Japan’s economic restructuring as a response to China’s rise

Key concepts: Economic architecture, economic integration, production networks

Week 8 Investigate China’s economic growth and its regional and global implications.

Key concepts: Economic architecture, economic integration, production networks

Week 9 Explore Japan’s economic restructuring as a response to China’s rise

Key concepts: Economic architecture, economic integration, production networks

Week 10 Discuss perceptions of China in East Asia and relate to soft power

Key concepts: Grassroots exchanges, soft power