2025/2026
Современные международные отношения в Азиатско-Тихоокеанском регионе: продвинутый курс
Статус:
Маго-лего
Кто читает:
Департамент зарубежного регионоведения
Где читается:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Когда читается:
3, 4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
6
Контактные часы:
64
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course initiates a comprehensive and interactive discussion on the present specificity of international relations in the Asia-Pacific region with an emphasis upon economic and political-security regionalism. The course is based upon an innovative approach combining a solid theoretical foundation with the hard factual data obtained from pioneering field studies. The course stimulates the students’ conceptual thinking and makes the learning environments exciting, challenging and rewarding Starting with theoretical perspectives on international relations and regionalism in the Asia-Pacific region, the course proceeds with the evolution of ASEAN and ASEAN-led institutions as multilateral dialogue platforms. Then the discussion turns to the Australian regional priorities and the conceptualization of the Indo-Pacific region as a new international phenomenon. Further, the security challenges of South Asia are carefully examined. The course concludes with insights in the potential of the Arctic dimension in the current priorities and policies of the Asia-Pacific states. By linking Asia-Pacific political, economic and security trends with theoretical insights, the course develops a comprehensive understanding of the evolution and perspectives of the Asia-Pacific region with a special emphasis upon its regionalism dimension.
Learning Objectives
- Initiate a broad discussion on key trends shaping the current evolution of the Asia-Pacific region.
- Include discussions on: conceptual issues related to the evolution of Asia-Pacific regionalism; the specificity of key regional security challenges; the most recent trends related to the establishment of the Indo-Pacific region; issues related to the connectivity schemes spanning through the Asia-Pacific region; prospects for the rise of the Arctic dimension in the economic, political and security priorities of the Asia-Pacific states.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Analises the contradiction between area studies and international relations.
- Analyses new nuances in major powers’ approaches to Southeast Asia in the late-1960s – mid 1970s and the ASEAN response.
- Analyses the key reasons behind linking the Indian and the Pacific oceans.
- Defines the arguments of the main theories of international regarding the Asia-Pacific dimensions.
- Defines the importance of tribes in the political life of Afghanistan.
- Defines the main imbalances and contradictions between the ASEAN’s prospective plans and the results obtained.
- Defines the main reasons behind the ASEAN’s plans to establish the ADMM+8: the practical and the reputational dimensions.
- Defines the offensive and the defensive narratives of India's and China's policy in South Asia.
- Defines the practical dimension of Australia-Japan cooperation.
- Defines the role of India as a new security partner.
- Defines the specificity, stages and driving forces of India’s and Pakistan’s nuclear programs.
- Defines the territorial disputes in relations between China and India: the specificity of Tibet dispute.
- Describes ASEAN and the Asia-Pacific security regionalism, the key reasons and implications of the establishment of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF).
- Describes Australia’s foreign policy.
- Describes China’s and India’s policies towards Sri-Lanka, the Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan.
- Describes New Zealand’s regional role in the Pacific ant its relations with the main partners (the US, China and Australia).
- Describes Siachen Glacier issue and its specificity.
- Describes the ASEAN’s expansions and its main aftereffects for regionalism in Southeast Asia.
- Describes the Asia-Pacific dimension of The Arctic.
- Describes the ethnic, political and international dimensions of the Kashmir issue.
- Describes the Indo-Pacific region in the priorities of its key actors.
- Describes the main motives of the “ASEAN-5” to establish a multilateral dialogue platform.
- Describes the main reasons for India’s concerns regarding The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
- Describes the specificity of self-perception of small countries of South Asia.
- Describes the specificity of the international dimension of the Afghanistan issue.
- Describes the stages of institution-building in Southeast Asia.
Course Contents
- Use of artificial intelligence tools
- International relations theory: the Asia-Pacific dimension
- Regionalism in Southeast Asia in the Cold War
- ASEAN in the post-Cold war period: moving towards the ASEAN Community
- ASEAN and Multilateral Dialogue in the Asia-Pacific Region
- The Indo-Pacific region as an emerging political-security narrative
- Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific islands in Asia-Pacific international relations
- Relations between India and Pakistan: problems and solutions
- Contradictions between India and China in South Asia
- Afghanistan as a security flashpoint in South Asia
- Small countries of South Asia: challenges and tasks ahead
- The Arctic and its Asia-Pacific dimension
Assessment Elements
- Individual essayThe students are to prepare individual essays on the topics offered by the professors. The requirements will be explained in detail by the professors. Essays are an individual assignment.
- Analytical paperThe students are to prepare individual essays on the topics offered by the professors. The requirements will be explained in detail by the professors. Essays are an individual assignment.
- 1 PPTThe students are to participate in mini-projects. The requirements will be explained in detail by the professors. Mini-projects (a collective assignment) account for soft skills training.
- 2 PPTThe students are to participate in mini-projects. The requirements will be explained in detail by the professors. Mini-projects (a collective assignment) account for soft skills training.
- Class ParticipationThe student have to participate in discussions in the seminar classes. The discussion includes answering the teacher's questions and asking questions about other students' PPT.
- ExamThe students are to pass the final exam. Issues covered during the course will be discussed. In selected cases, an exemption is possible.
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 4th module0.1 * 1 PPT + 0.1 * 2 PPT + 0.3 * Analytical paper + 0.1 * Class Participation + 0.25 * Exam + 0.15 * Individual essay
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Behera, N. C. (2008). International Relations in South Asia : Search for an Alternative Paradigm. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=278313
- Bilgin, P., & Ling, L. H. M. (2017). Asia in International Relations : Unlearning Imperial Power Relations. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1456287
- Elson, R. A. (2013). Globalization and Development : Why East Asia Surged Ahead and Latin America Fell Behind. [Basingstoke]: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=759453
- Emmers, R. (2012). ASEAN and the Institutionalization of East Asia. New York: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=441166
- Haacke, J. (2002). ASEAN’s Diplomatic and Security Culture : Origins, Development and Prospects. Richmond: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=582124
- Mahbubani, K., & Sng, J. (2017). The ASEAN Miracle. University of Chicago Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.b.ucp.bkecon.9789814722490
- Nadkarni, V. (2010). Strategic Partnerships in Asia : Balancing Without Alliances. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=308020
- Pan-Asian Integration: Linking East and South Asia. (2009). Philippines, Australia: Asian Development Bank. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.6DB85DC6
- Wrobel, R. M. (2019). Chinese geopolitics in Southeast Asia : a new pattern of economic power within ASEAN? Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift Der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft / Études Asiatiques : Revue de La Société Suisse-Asie, (1), 149. https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-823081
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Yang, M., Qin, Y., & Lam, P. E. (2013). China And East Asia: After The Wall Street Crisis. Singapore: World Scientific. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=545471