| 学部・大学院区分 | | 法・博後 | | | 時間割コード | | 4302600 | | | 科目区分 | | 法学研究科開講科目
Courses Offered by the Graduate School of Law | | | 科目名 【日本語】 | | 比較政治専門研究Ⅱ | | | 科目名 【英語】 | | Comparative Studies in Politics Ⅱ | | | 担当教員 【日本語】 | | 三浦 聡 ○ | | | 担当教員 【英語】 | | MIURA Satoshi ○ | | | 単位数 | | 2 | | | 開講期・開講時間帯 | | 春 木曜日 ３時限
Spring Thu 3 | | | 対象学年 | | １年
1 | | | 授業形態 | | 講義
Lecture | |
| 授業の目的 【日本語】 | | | | | 授業の目的 【英語】 | | Updated! (2 pm, April 13, 2020)
This course, intended as an introduction to International Relations (IR), deals with two broad topics: (1) politics among great powers and international order and (2) global governance for sustainable development. The former focuses on U.S.-China relations and their implications for Japan and international order while the latter zeros in on how stakeholders attempt to attain sustainable development. [We will take international relations and global governance (or lack thereof) of COVID-19 as a case.]
(1) The rise of China has been a hot topic among both practitioners and scholars of foreign affairs. Of late, pundits have come to describe the contemporary U.S.-China relations as a New Cold War. This pattern of the rise and fall of great powers, Realists argue, have characterized international relations since ancient Greek period. What do China and the U.S. want? Do leaders (i.e., Xi Jinping and Trump) matter? Or are they just falling prey to international systemic pressures that give rise to power politics? Have globalization and new technologies changed this allegedly recurrent pattern? These are samples of questions that "mainstream" International Relations scholars have asked, and that we will ask and discuss in the first part of this course. We will examine both Western views and Chinese views in order to see the phenomena from different angles.
(2) Global issues and challenges abound—climate change, water scarcity, hunger, poverty, forced migration, infectious diseases, and human rights violations, to name but a few. These issues are now bundled under the banner of sustainable development. The second part of this course serves as an introduction to Global Governance—a subfield of IR that focuses on who (not only governments) governs what (not just issues that directly affects national security), why (not merely maximizing national interests), and how (not only through binding laws backed by material sanctions) regarding global (multilevel and "glocal") issues and challenges. |
| | | 到達目標 【日本語】 | | | | | 到達目標 【英語】 | | This course has three objectives:
to cultivate your interests in current issues facing us;
to familiarize you with main concepts and theories of global governance; and
to develop your skills in critical and analytical thinking.
To attain these objectives, this course avoids a “unilateral” (lecture-based) approach to teaching and learning. Instead, it adopts both “bilateral” (questions and answers between a lecturer and students) and “multilateral” ( group discussions among students ) approaches. This interactive method will encourage you to regard international/global issues not as “their” challenges but “our” challenges — as citizens, consumers, students, (future) businesspersons, leaders, etc.
This course is designed as a matchmaking and learning platform where students and a lecturer—having different and unique backgrounds and interested in a variety of international/global issues—exchange views, deliberate, and hopefully come up with better ideas on how “we” can tackle global and local issues and challenges.
In order to make our group and class discussions as informed and lively as possible, students are required to read assigned readings, learn theory and practice of great power politics and global governance, create a concise summary note (a two- to three-pager) of each article with brief questions and comments. So my fellow students, ask not what your course will do for you; ask what you can do for your course! |
| | | 授業の内容や構成 | | Lecture / Theme / Lecture Course Description / Learning outside the class / Related page
Updated! (April 13, 2020)
[Kindly note that the schedule is subject to change depending on the situations.]
April 23
International Relations of COVID-19
Reading assignments:
John Allen, Nicholas Burns, Laurie Garrett, Richard N. Haass, G. John Ikenberry, Kishore Mahbubani, Shivshankar Menon, Robin Niblett, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Shannon K. O'Neil, Kori Schake, and Stephen M. Walt, “ How the World Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic ,” Foreign Policy , March 20, 2020.
Daniel W. Drezner, " What I Learned About the Coronavirus World From Watching Zombie Flicks ," Foreign Policy , April 11, 2020.
[Please be advised that it is better to save the articles first before you read them; there appears to be a limit as to the number of times (possibly per month) you can read Foreign Policy articles. The same might apply to other journal articles.]
Read and create a summary note of the assignments, and send it to me by 8 am, April 29.
Also read "Introduction . . . to the Undead" (though you don't need to create a summary for the Introduction.)
April 30
International Relations 101
Reading assignment:
Drezner, Theories of International Politics and Zombies, Revived Edition , pp. 37-64 ("The Realpolitik of the Living Dead" and "Regulating the Undead in a Liberal World Order").
Read and create a summary note of the assignment, and send it to me by 8 am, May 6.
May 7
International Relations 101
Reading assignment:
Drezner, pp. 65-86 ("The Social Construction of Zombies" and "The Supergendered Politics of the Posthuman World").
Read and create a summary note of the assignment, and send it to me by 8 am, May 13.
May 14
International Relations 101
Reading assignment:
Drezner, pp. 95-119 ("Domestic Politics: Are All Zombie Politics Local?" and "Bureaucratic Politics: The 'Pulling and Hauling' of Zombies").
Read and create a summary note of the assignment, and send it to me by 8 am, May 20.
May 21
International Relations 101
Reading assignments:
Drezner, pp. 121-136 ("We’re Only Human: Psychological Responses to the Undead" and "Conclusion . . . or So You Think").
TBD
Read and create a summary note of the assignment, and send it to me by 8 am, May 27.
Also read "Epilogue: Bringing the Brain Back In" (though you don't need to create a summary for the Epilogue.)
Updated! (April 15, 2020)
For the next a few weeks, we will be selectively reading some articles below (the list may be updated):
- Foreign Policy
Adam Tooze, “ America Is Ailing—and Leading the World ,”
Foreign Policy , April 1, 2020.
Stephen M. Walt, “ The United States Can Still Win the Coronavirus Pandemic ,”
Foreign Policy , April 3, 2020.
Stephen M. Walt, " The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Infecting the United States With Dictatorship ," Foreign Policy , April 13, 2020.
Salvatore Babones, " In Post-Coronavirus World, Chinese Power is Overrated ," Foreign Policy , April 14, 2020.
- Foreign Affairs
Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, “ Will the Coronavirus End Globalization as We Know It? The Pandemic Is Exposing Market Vulnerabilities No One Knew Existed ,”
Foreign Affairs , March 16, 2020.
Kurt M. Campbell and Rush Doshi, “ The Coronavirus Could Reshape Global Order: China Is Maneuvering for International Leadership as the United States Falters ,”
Foreign Affairs , March 18, 2020.
Mark Blyth, “ The U.S. Economy Is Uniquely Vulnerable to the Coronavirus: Why Americaʼs Growth Model Suggests It Has Few Good Options ,”
Foreign Affairs , March 30, 2020.
Shannon K. O'Neil, “ How to Pandemic-Proof Globalization: Redundancy, Not Reshoring, Is the Key to Supply Chain Security ,”
Foreign Affairs , April 1, 2020.
Richard Haass, “ The Pandemic Will Accelerate History Rather Than Reshape It ,”
Foreign Affairs , April 7, 2020.
- Project Syndicate
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., ” China and America Are Failing the Pandemic Test ,”
Project Syndicate , April 2, 2020.
Dani Rodrik, " Will COVID-19 Remake the World? ” Project Syndicate , April 6, 2020.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, ” Internationalizing the Crisis ,”
Project Syndicate , April 6, 2020.
Jeffrey D. Sachs, ” The East-West Divide in COVID-19 Control ,”
Project Syndicate , April 7, 2020.
Ngaire Woods & Rajaie Batniji, ” A Global COVID-19 Exit Strategy ,”
Project Syndicate , April 9, 2020.
Graham Allison, " Coronavirus Death: Who Is This Plague Targeting? ” Project Syndicate , April 14, 2020.
Jim O'Neill, " Blaming China Is a Dangerous Distraction ,” Project Syndicate , April 14, 2020.
Hong Nam-ki, " How the G20 Should Lead, Again ,” Project Syndicate , April 14, 2020.
- The National Interest
Graham T. Allison Jr. and Christopher Li, “ In War Against Coronavirus: Is China Foe—or Friend? ”
The National Interest , March 27, 2020.
Bradley A. Thayer & Lianchao Han, ” China's Coronavirus Weapon: How Beijing Plans to Leverage the Global Supply Chain ,” The National Interest , April 11, 2020.
-others
Benjamin Cashore and Steven Bernstein, “ Why Experts Disagree on How to Manage COVID-19: Four Problem Conceptions, Not One ,”
Global Policy , April 7, 2020.
Oona Hathaway, “ COVID-19 Shows How the U.S. Got National Security Wrong ,”
Just Security , April 7, 2020.
David P. Fidler, “ Coronavirus: A Twenty-Year Failure ,”
Think Global Health , March 23, 2020.
David P. Fidler, “ The World Health Organization and Pandemic Politics: The Good, the Bad, and an Ugly Future for Global Health ,”
Think Global Health , April 10, 2020.
Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp, “ Is the Virus Killing Globalization? There’s No One Answer, ”
Barron’s , March 15, 2020.
Simon Mair, “ What will the world be like after coronavirus: Four possible futures ,”
The Conversation , March 30, 2020.
For the remaining weeks of this semester, we will be reading articles on international relations (politics among nations, especially great powers) and global governance (e.g., climate change, sustainable development). The following list is just a sample of possible readings on the former topic:
-on great power politics
Foot, Rosemary, and Amy King. "Assessing the deterioration in China–US relations: US governmental perspectives on the economic-security nexus." China International Strategy Review 1.1 (2019): 39-50.
Kirshner, Jonathan. "Offensive realism, Thucydides traps, and the tragedy of unforced errors: classical realism and US–China relations." China International Strategy Review 1.1 (2019): 51-63.
Brooks, Stephen G. "Power transitions, then and now: five new structural barriers that will constrain China’s rise." China International Strategy Review 1.1 (2019): 65-83.
Jisi, Wang. "Assessing the radical transformation of US policy toward China." China International Strategy Review 1.2 (2019): 195-204.
Khong, Yuen Foong. "The US, China, and the Cold War analogy." China International Strategy Review 1.2 (2019): 223-237.
Mearsheimer, John J. "Bound to fail: The rise and fall of the liberal international order." International Security 43.4 (2019): 7-50
Glaser, Charles L. "A Flawed Framework: Why the Liberal International Order Concept Is Misguided." International Security 43.4 (2019): 51-87.
Farrell, Henry, and Abraham L. Newman. "Chained to Globalization: Why It's Too Late to Decouple." Foreign Affairs 99 (2020): 70-80.
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| | | 履修条件・関連する科目 | | | | | 成績評価の方法と基準 | | Class participation (≠attendance): 50%
Summary notes (due 9 AM every Thursday): 50%
You need to attend at least two-thirds of the classes to get credits.
You are not allowed to join a class without submitting a summary note in advance.
Every class will start on time; your repeated tardiness will result in a grade reduction.
I strongly encourage you to make your summary notes “useful” for group and class discussions; creating figures and tables will help you grasp and focus on main arguments of each article. |
| | | 教科書・テキスト | | Updated! (2 pm, April 13, 2020)
We now have a textbook--sort of.
Daniel W. Drezner, Theories of International Politics and Zombies, Revived Edition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015). [You can download the ebook as follows:
Go to our University Library's Remote Access page;
Find and click on "JSTOR";
Search with " Daniel W. Drezner, Theories of International Politics and Zombies, Revived Edition" as a keyword ;
Find a chapter from the book and click on "From: Theories of International Politics and Zombies: Revived Edition";
You can now find a table of contents of the book and download each chapter by clicking on "Download PDF". If you have trouble finding or downloading the book, do let me know!] |
| | | 参考書 | | | Most articles are available online. For other articles (those without any links), feel free to contact me. |
| | | 課外学習等（授業時間外学習の指示） | | | Read and make a summary note of each reading assignment. |
| | | 注意事項 | | Updated! (2 pm, April 13, 2020)
We will kick off our class on April 23 by requiring you to read the assignments, create a summary note, and submit it to the instructor by deadline.
Meanwhile, the instructor will experiment with hosting a Zoom meeting. If and only if that works, then we will start having online discussions every Thursday, from 1 pm to 2:30 pm, ideally from early May.
-A note on your summary note:
You are required to submit a summary note every week by deadline.
Failure to submit it four times will result in "F" grade.
Failure to submit it in time will result in reduced points.
A summary note will
be a-few (two to four) pager per week (not per article);
consist of "summary" section and "questions and comments" section, with the
former summarizing main arguments (including main logics and evidences) presented in each assigned paper and the latter presenting your own questions and/or comments;
ideally have a table or figure of your own making that visualizes the main arguments, logics, and/or evidences.
Also be kindly informed that parts of good summary notes will be shared with other students (without any personal information attached).
You are also expected to read newspaper articles as deemed relevant to the discussion on each topic. |
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