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Academic Year Semester/Term

2017/2018 1

Course Code Course Title Credit Hours Language of Instruction Course Pre-requisite(s)/ Minimum Requirement(s)

AIG3011 Security Issues of East Asia 3 Malay Nil

Main Reference Atanassova-Cornelis, Elena., F. van der Putten & Frans-Paul van der Putten (eds.), 2014, Changing Security Dynamics in East Asia: A Post-US Regional Order in the Making? London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

Beeson, Mark, 2014, Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia: Politics, Security and Economic Development, Palgrave Macmillan.

Emmott, Bill, 2008. Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade, London: Penguins Books. Goldstein, Avery, Edward Mansfield, 2012, The Nexus of Economics, Security, and International Relations in East Asia, Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Harrison, Selig S. (ed.), 1996. Japan’s Nuclear Future: The Plutonium Debate and East Asian Security. Washington D. C.: Carnegie Endowment of International Peace. Harrison, Selig S., 2002. Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Hughes, C.W., 2014. "Japan's Foreign Security Relations and Policies", in S. Pekkanen, J. Ravenhill, R. Foot (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Inoguchi, Takashi, Ikenberry, G. John & Yoichiro Sato (eds.), 2011. The U.S.-Japan Security Alliance, New York: Palgrave Macmillan US. Perkins, Dwight H., 2013, East Asian Development: Foundations and Strategies: The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures, Harvard University Press.

Samuels, Richard J., 2007. Securing Japan, London: Cornell University Press. Samuels, Richard J., 2013. 3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Tellis, Ashley, (ed.), 2013. Strategic Asia 2013-2014: Asia in the Second Nuclear Age, Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research.

Teaching Materials/ Equipment

Map, book, articles in journals, official government documents and reliable sources from internet.

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Learning Strategies

Lecture, tutorial, presentation and project paper.

Student Learning Time

Face to face: 39 Guided learning: 27 Independent learning: 51

Soft Skills Critical thinking and problem solving (CT3) Lifelong learning and information management (LL2) Professional ethics and moral (EM2)

Lecturer Room Telephone/e-mail

Associate Professor Dr. Md Nasrudin Md Akhir Room 8, Level 2, Department of East Asian Studies +603-79675434/mnasrudi@um.edu.my

Lecture Sessions: Day/Time Venue Tutorial Sessions/ Practical: Day/Time Venue

Lecture Thursday/9:00-11:00am Sumire Room Tutorial Thursday/11:00am-12pm Sumire Room

Important Date

Test: Nil Final Examination: January 11, 2018 (11:30am-1:30pm)

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Teach Schedule

Week Lecture/Tutorial/Assignment Topics Reference/Teaching Materials/Tools

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Lecture- Introduction to the course. Military and non-military aspect of security in East Asia Tutorial 1

Md Nasrudin Md Akhir, Pertahanan Jepun: Ancaman Senjata Nuklear di Asia Timur, Kuala Lumpur: Penerbit Universiti Malaya, 2006, pp. 1-26. Hoadley, Stephen & Jürgen Rüland (eds.), Asian Security Reassessed, Singapore: ISEAS, 2006. Dent, Christopher M. (ed.), China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2008.

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Lecture- Japan-US Security Treaty. Tutorial 2

Md Nasrudin Md Akhir, “Pertahanan Nasional Jepun: Perikatan Tokyo-Washington dan Keselamatan Asia Timur,” Md Nasrudin Md Akhir (ed.), Asia Timur Era Globalisasi: Cabaran dan Masa Depan, Kuala Lumpur: Penerbit Universiti Malaya, 2006, pp. 1-44. Shinoda, Tomohiko, Koizumi Diplomacy, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. Armitage, Richard L. & Joseph S. Nye, The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Getting Asia Right Through 2020, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC, February 2007, pp. 1-28. Katzenstein, Peter J., Rethinking Japanese Security, New York: Routledge, 2008.

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Lecture- Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and the US Military Bases in Japan. Tutorial 3

Md Nasrudin Md Akhir, Pertahanan

Jepun: Ancaman Senjata Nuklear di

Asia Timur, Kuala Lumpur: Penerbit

Universiti Malaya, 2006, pp. 27-64.

Kimijima, Akihiko, “Peace in East Asia

and the Japanese Constitution: A

Reexamination 60 Years After Its

Making,” Ritsumeikan Kokusai Kankei,

Vol. 21, No.3，March 2009, pp. 169-

178.

Hagström, Linus, The ‘abnormal’ state:

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Identity, norm/exception and Japan,

European Journal of International

Relations, 2014, pp. 1–24.

Sasaki, Alexandra, Japan’s Security

Policy: A Shift in Direction under Abe?

Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und

Politik, 2015.

Japan: Interpretations of Article 9 of the Constitution, The Law Library of Congress, Global Legal Research Center, Washington DC, September 2015, pp. 1-52.

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Lecture- Three non-nuclear principles and US nuclear umbrella over Japan. Tutorial 4

Harrison, Selig S. (ed.). Japan’s Nuclear Future: The Plutonium Debate and East Asian Security. Washington D. C.: Carnegie Endowment of International Peace, 1996. Defense of Japan 2000-2016, Tokyo: Urban Connections, 2016.

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Lecture- Japan, plutonium and the peaceful use of the atom. Tutorial 5- Presentation 1.

Kamiya, Matake, “Nuclear Japan: Oxymoron or Coming Soon?,” The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter 2002-03, pp. 63-75. Md Nasrudin Md Akhir, Pertahanan Jepun: Ancaman Senjata Nuklear di Asia Timur, Kuala Lumpur: Penerbit Universiti Malaya, 2006, pp. 65-100.

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Lecture- Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1 Tutorial 6- Presentation 2.

Dower, John, War Without Mercy, New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. Takaki, Ronald, Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb, United States of America: Little, Brown & Company, 1995. Hachiya, Michihiko, Hiroshima Diary, (Translated and edited by Warner Wells), Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Reading materials from Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims and Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation.

7 Lecture- Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 2 Tutorial 6- Presentation 3.

Reading materials from Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims and Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation.

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Lecture- Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and missile capabilities of China. Tutorial 7- Presentation 4.

Report of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concern with the PRC (The Cox Report), Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999. Cordesman, Anthony H. & Steven Colley, Chinese Strategy and Military Modernization: A Comparative Analysis, 2015.

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Lecture- Economic growth and military modernization of China. Tutorial 8- Presentation 5.

Md. Nasrudin Md. Akhir, Pertahanan Jepun: Ancaman Senjata Nuklear di Asia Timur, Kuala Lumpur: Penerbit Universiti Malaya, 2006. Emmott, Bill, Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade, London: Penguins Books, 2008. Fravel, M. Taylor, Economic Growth, Regime Insecurity, and Military Strategy: Explaining the Rise of Noncombat Operations in China, Asian Security, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2011, pp. 177–200.

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Lecture- South Korea and regional security issues. Tutorial 9- Presentation 6.

Ho, Khai Leong (ed.), ASEAN-Korea Relations: Security, Trade and Community Building, Singapore: ISEAS, 2007. Global Korea: The National Security Strategy of the Republic of Korea, Seoul: Cheong Wa Dae, 2009, pp. 1-37.

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Lecture- North Korea and the development of missiles and nuclear weapons. Tutorial 10- Presentation 7.

“North Korea’s Nuclear Program 2003,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 59, No. 2, Mac/April 2003. Hymans, Jacques E. C., Assessing North Korean Nuclear Intentions and Capacities: A New Approach, Journal of East Asian Studies, 2008, Vol. 8, pp. 259–292. Wit, Jeol S., and Ahn, Sun Young, North Korea’s Nuclear Futures: Technology and Strategy, Washington DC: US-Korea Institute at SAIS, 2015, pp. 1-32

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Lecture- US military bases in South Korea and defense protection of Taiwan. Tutorial 12- Presentation 8.

Stewart, Charles T., “To Defend Taiwan,” The Journal of World Affairs & New Technology, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2002. Yeo, Andrew I., “Security, Sovereignty,

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and Justice in U.S. Overseas Military Presence,” International Journal of Peace Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2, Winter 2014, pp. 43-67.

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Lecture- Ballistic Missile Defense in East Asia, Theater Missile Defense, espionage satellite and space program in East Asia Tutorial 13

Mitchell, Gordon R., “Japan-U.S. Missile Defense Collaboration: Rhetorically Delicious, Deceptively Dangerous,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 25, No. 1, Winter 2001. Johnson-Freese, Joan, “China’s Manned Space Program: What is That All About,” Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 2002. Roberts, Brad, On the Strategic Value of Ballistic Missile Defense, Paris and Brussels: Security Studies Center, 2014.

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Lecture- Conflict resolution mechanisms in East Asia. Tutorial 14- Summing up: Security issues in East Asia- An analysis.

Hoadley, Stephen, & Jurgen Ruland (eds.), Asian Security Reassessed, Singapore: ISEAS, 2006. Bercovitch, Jacob, Kwei-Bo Huang & Chung-Chian Teng (eds.), Conflict Management, Security and Intervention in East Asia, London: Routledge, 2008.