Dr Jurgen Haacke CLM 7.09 and Prof Christopher Hughes CLM 5.07

This course is available on the MSc in China in Comparative Perspective, MSc in Development Studies, MSc in International Affairs (LSE and Peking University), MSc in International Relations, MSc in International Relations (LSE and Sciences Po), MSc in International Relations (Research), MSc in International Relations Theory and MSc in Theory and History of International Relations. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

The international political experience of major powers and post-colonial states in a region beset by recurrent conflict and external intervention during the Cold War and subject to a novel multilateralism in its wake. The inter-linkages between the global, regional and local; the interests and role of the US; foreign and security policies of the major regional powers in relation to East Asia-Pacific; the impact of the legacy of colonialism and external intervention; the sources of bilateral and intra-regional conflict; the problem of regional order with reference to East and South-East Asia; the emergence and development of regional institutions.

10 hours of lectures and 12 hours of seminars in the MT. 10 hours of seminars in the LT.

Students will be expected to write three 2,000-word essays by dates stipulated by the teachers responsible.

(A full reading guide will be made available to interested students).

Michael Yahuda, The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific, 1945-1995 (Routledge Curzon, 3rd edn, 2011); Muthiah Alagappa (Ed), Asian Security Practice (Stanford University Press, 1998); Alagappa (Ed), Asian Security Order (Stanford University Press 2003); G John Ikenberry & Michael Mastanduno (Eds), International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific (Columbia University Press, 2003); Alastair Iain Johnston & Robert Ross (Eds), Engaging China (Routledge, 1999); Glen Hook et al, Japan's International Relation (Routledge, 2nd ed.2005); Christopher Hughes, Chinese Nationalism in the Global Era (London, Routledge, 2006); Amitav Acharya, Constructing a Regional Security Community in Southeast Asia (Routledge 2nd ed.2009); Jürgen Haacke, ASEAN's Diplomatic and Security Culture (Routledge Curzon, 2003). Ashley J Tellis and Michael Wills (Eds), Strategic Asia 2006-07: Trade, Interdependence and Security (The National Bureau of Asian Research, 2006); Mark Beeson (Ed), Contemporary Southeast Asia (Palgrave, 2nd ed.2008); Alastair Iain Johnston and Robert S Ross (Eds), New Directions in the Study of China's Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2007); Gilbert Rozman, Northeast Asia's Stunted Regionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2004).; Rex Li, A Rising China and Security in East Asia: Identity Construction and Security Discourse (Routledge, 2009).

Exam (100%, duration: 3 hours) in the main exam period.