POLI4590 · Political Science
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
This course is class restricted to juniors, seniors, and graduate students only.. This class offers an analytical perspective on the strategic conditions of post-Cold War East Asia. It examines the regional political structure, the strategic characteristics of the region's great power relationship--U.S.-China relations and the rise of China--and the implications of great power relations for the conflicts on the Korean peninsula, in the Taiwan Strait, and in the South China Sea, and the role of alliance relationships in regional diplomacy. From these different perspectives, the class seeks an understanding of the sources of state behavior in East Asia and the prospects for regional stability and instability.
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4.7 / 5
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4.5 / 5
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4.6 / 5
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~4.5
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Spring 2025
1 sectionSpring 2024
1 sectionFall 2022
1 sectionFall 2021
1 sectionFall 2020
1 section