printer friendly pageEASTASN 94: The Rise of China in World Affairs (EASTASN 294)
This course examines the impact and implications of the rise of China in contemporary world politics from a historical and international relations perspective. It reviews China's halting progress into the international system, sketches the evolution of PRC foreign policy since 1949, and analyzes China's developmental priorities and domestic political context as they figure into Beijing's interactions with the world. It sketches American policy toward the PRC, and it assesses alternative approaches to dealing with China on such issues as arms and nuclear proliferation, regional security arrangements, international trade and investment, human rights, environmental problems, and the Taiwan and Tibet questions.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Miller, A. (PI)
EASTASN 97: The International Relations of Asia since World War II (EASTASN 297)
Asian international relations since World War II were dominated by the efforts of the newly independent nation-states of Asia, almost all of which had been colonies before the war, to establish and maintain sovereignty in a context of American and Soviet competition for influence in the region. This course traces the major developments of the period, including the Chinese civil war, the U.S. occupation of Japan, the division of Korea and the Korean War, the South and Southeast Asian independence struggles, the American and Soviet alliance systems, the Vietnam War, the strategic realignments that led to the end of the Cold War in Asia, the emergence of Central Asia, and the legacy of issues that the period has posed for the region today.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Miller, A. (PI)
EASTASN 117: Health and Healthcare Systems in East Asia (EASTASN 217)
China, Japan, and both Koreas. Healthcare economics as applied to East Asian health policy, including economic development, population aging, infectious disease outbreaks (SARS, avian flu), social health insurance, health service delivery, payment incentives, competition, workforce policy, pharmaceutical industry, and regulation. No prior knowledge of economics or healthcare required.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Eggleston, K. (PI)
EASTASN 143: Taiwan's Democratic Evolution (EASTASN 243)
This course is an introduction to the contemporary politics of Taiwan. Once a poor, insecure autocracy, today Taiwan has been transformed into a prosperous and stable liberal democracy, albeit one whose long-term security remains imperiled by the rising power of the People's Republic of China. We will draw on concepts and theories from political science to explore distinct aspects of this ongoing political evolution, including the transition to and consolidation of democracy, origins and trajectory of economic and social development, sources of Taiwanese nationalism, security of the Taiwanese state and its relationship to the PRC and the United States, parties and elections, and public policy processes and challenges.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Templeman, K. (PI)
EASTASN 153: Japan & the World: Innovation, Economic Growth, Globalization, and Int'l Security Challenges (EASTASN 253, ECON 120, POLISCI 115E)
This course introduces students to the economy, politics, and international relations of contemporary Japan. The course puts a particular emphasis on several emerging issues in Japan including innovation and economic dynamism, Japan's contributions to international peace and cooperation, and Japan's response to international economic and geopolitical challenges. The course will invite several guest instructors, each of whom is an expert on at least one of the issues that Japan faces today, to give lectures in addition to the main instructors. The guest lecturers will also be available outside of the classroom for further discussion during their stays at Stanford.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Hoshi, T. (PI)
;
Lipscy, P. (PI)
EASTASN 162: Seminar on the Evolution of the Modern Chinese State, 1550-Present (EASTASN 262)
This seminar will assess the evolving response of the late imperial, early Republican, Nanjing Republic, and the PRC regimes in response to China's changing international setting, to successive revolutions in warfare, and to fundamental economic, social and demographic trends domestically from the 16th century to present. It will assess the capacities of each successive Chinese state to extract resources from society and economy and to mobilize people behind national purposes, to elaborate centralized institutions to pursue national priorities, to marshal military forces for national defense and police forces to sustain domestic order, and to generate popular identities loyal to national authority.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Miller, A. (PI)
EASTASN 189K: Politics, Economics, and Society of North Korea (EASTASN 289K)
The course will be a multidisciplinary approach to North Korea, using the fields of sociology, International Relations, history, and economics. The course will begin by exploring western media images of North Korea in order to establish its place in the global order. It will then look back at the process of decolonization and state formation in the 1940s and 1950s before looking at the contours of inter-Korean competition during the Cold War. The course will then turn to look at the contemporary nuclear and missile crisis as the defining feature of North Korea's international relations as well as the contemporaneous economic and social changes that have taken place during the last twenty years. There will be a particular focus on the Kim Jong Un era.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 9 units total)
Instructors:
Abrahamian, A. (PI)
EASTASN 217: Health and Healthcare Systems in East Asia (EASTASN 117)
China, Japan, and both Koreas. Healthcare economics as applied to East Asian health policy, including economic development, population aging, infectious disease outbreaks (SARS, avian flu), social health insurance, health service delivery, payment incentives, competition, workforce policy, pharmaceutical industry, and regulation. No prior knowledge of economics or healthcare required.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Eggleston, K. (PI)
EASTASN 243: Taiwan's Democratic Evolution (EASTASN 143)
This course is an introduction to the contemporary politics of Taiwan. Once a poor, insecure autocracy, today Taiwan has been transformed into a prosperous and stable liberal democracy, albeit one whose long-term security remains imperiled by the rising power of the People's Republic of China. We will draw on concepts and theories from political science to explore distinct aspects of this ongoing political evolution, including the transition to and consolidation of democracy, origins and trajectory of economic and social development, sources of Taiwanese nationalism, security of the Taiwanese state and its relationship to the PRC and the United States, parties and elections, and public policy processes and challenges.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Templeman, K. (PI)
EASTASN 253: Japan & the World: Innovation, Economic Growth, Globalization, and Int'l Security Challenges (EASTASN 153, ECON 120, POLISCI 115E)
This course introduces students to the economy, politics, and international relations of contemporary Japan. The course puts a particular emphasis on several emerging issues in Japan including innovation and economic dynamism, Japan's contributions to international peace and cooperation, and Japan's response to international economic and geopolitical challenges. The course will invite several guest instructors, each of whom is an expert on at least one of the issues that Japan faces today, to give lectures in addition to the main instructors. The guest lecturers will also be available outside of the classroom for further discussion during their stays at Stanford.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Hoshi, T. (PI)
;
Lipscy, P. (PI)
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