POS 133.3. SOUTHEAST ASIAN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 2nd Semester, SY 2016-2017 M-W-F 3:00 – 4:00 PM (B-208) Dr. Liberty Chee
[email protected] Consultation Hours: Tuesdays – Fridays, 4:00 – 5:00 PM Department of Political Science 3/F Leong Hall (Please e-mail to set an appointment)
DESCRIPTION This course is an introduction to the international relations of the Southeast Asian region. The first part unpacks the 'imagining' of the region as a coherent whole, the forces that keep it together and apart. It looks into the central organising principle of non-interference to examine its staying power given in the current geopolitical context. Also, relations with key external actors will be covered. The second part looks into some of the issues of governance facing the region today and concludes with how region-building is proceeding from top-down and bottomup efforts. Organisation: lecture on Mondays, lead discussant’s presentation and group discussion on Wednesdays, group activity on Fridays. REQUIREMENTS Reading. You will be reading between 50 to 75 pages per week. This means you will need to set aside between 4 to 6 hours for reading, depending on your skills. The more you read, the more you learn to be purposive, the faster your reading rate. For tips on how to read, I strongly suggest you take some time to read this this.. Writing. All of your written output will be engagements with the ideas and arguments put forth in the readings. I’ll be sending detailed rubrics so you will know what I expect to read from you. The general rule of thumb is that I need to hear your ‘voice’ when you write. This means I should be able to pick out your you r ideas and arguments from the authors. Participation (10%). Throughout the semester, you will be evaluated for the quality (not the quantity!) of your contribution to class discussions. Not to say that thoughtful effort will go unnoticed. Lead Discussion (10%). As lead discussant, you will identify three main ideas that you think are the most important from the weekly readings. Your short presentation (10 minutes maximum) will explain why you think these ideas are important. Prepare 3 well-thought out questions to invite your classmates for discussion. Reaction Memos x 4 (20%). These will be 300-word think 300-word think pieces on the readings covered. One reaction memo will be hand-written in-class. Your RM should not summarise what was read. You should instead evaluate the claims made by the authors and explaining why you agree, disagree, etc. Your RM should identify identi fy what ideas you think are important and why.
Unannounced Quizzes x 4 (20%). These will be simple, short-answer 10-point quizzes designed to motivate you to keep up with the weekly readings. Research Paper (40%). This paper should be written in engagement of the readings and authors covered in the course. Use the theories and concepts we encounter as tools to investigate some interesting or puzzling aspect of Southeast Asian international relations. 4,000 to 4,500 words, 4,500 words, excluding citations, include word count (stick to the word limits, no more, nor less).
PART I. UNDERSTANDING THE REGION AND THE REST Week 1. The Study of Southeast Asia, the Study of International Relations (Jan. 18, 20) Housekeeping and administrative matters, introductions, discussion of the syllabus.
Why study the IR of Southeast Asia? What makes this region’s IR worth studying? Is there a ‘region’? Acharya A. (2012). “Imagining Southeast Asia.” In The Making of Southeast Asia: International Relations of a Region. Region. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, pp. 51-93. Week 2. Centripetal Forces (Jan. 23, 25, 27)
What makes Southeast Asia ‘hang together’? Slater D. (2010). “To Extract and to Organize” and “States and Regimes that Run Them.” Chapters 1 and 2 in Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia (in Library). Jones D. & Smith M. (2007). "Making Process, Not Progress: ASEAN and the Evolving East Asian Regional Order." International Security 32(1), pp. 148-184. Acharya A. (2012). "Constructing 'One Southeast Asia'." Chapter 7 in n The Making of Southeast Asia: International Relations of a Region, Region, pp. 213-239. Week 3. Centrifugal Forces (Jan. 30, Feb. 1, 3)
What makes Southeast Asia ‘come apart’? Scott J. (2009). "Hills, Valleys, and States: An Introduction to Zomia." Chapter 1 in The Art of Not Being Governed , pp. 1-39 Slater D. & Kim D. (2015). "Standoffish States: Nonliterate Leviathans in Southeast Asia." TRaNS: Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, Asia, 3(1), pp 25 – 44. Felker G. (2001). "ASEAN Regionalism and Southeast Asia's Systemic Challenges." Chapter 7 in Twenty-First Century World Order and the Asia Pacific, pp. Pacific, pp. 213-253 Due: Reaction Memo 1. Coverage: Weeks 1 – 3.
Week 4. Sovereignty and the Norm of Non-Interference (Feb. 8, 10) February 6 is a holiday.
Acharya A. (2009). “The Evolution of ASEAN Norms and the Emergence of the ‘ASEAN Way.’” Chapter 2 in Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order, pp. Order, pp. 54-98. Jones L. (2010). “ASEAN’s Unchanged Melody? The Theory and Practice of ‘Non -Interference’ in Southeast Asia.” The Pacific Review 23(4), pp. 479-502. Due: One-page outline of your research topic. Should include a research question and an argument or hypothesis. Week 5. The Region and the ‘West’ (Feb. 13, 15, 17) Khong Y.F. (2008). "Coping with Strategic Uncertainty: The Role of Institutions and Soft Balancing in Southeast Asia's Post-Cold War Strategy." Chapter 5 in Rethinking Security in East Asia: Identity, Power, and Efficiency , pp. 172-208 Lum T. (2009). "United States Relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)." CRS Report for Congress R40933. Camroux D. (2010). "Interregionalism or Merely a Fourth-Level Game? An Examination of the EU-ASEAN Relationship." East Asia 27(57-77). Week 6. The Region and the ‘Rest’ I (Feb. 20, 22, 24) Ciorciari J. (2014). “A Chinese Model for Patron -Client Relations? The Sino-Cambodian -278. Partnership.” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 15(2), pp. 245 -278. Sudo S. (2002). "Japan's dynamic Foreign Policy toward Southeast Asia: Three Doctrines." Chapter 3 in The International Relations of Japan and Southeast Asia: Forging a New Regionalism, Regionalism , pp. 33-55.
Teo S., Singh B. & See S.T. (2013). “South Korea’s Middle Power Engagement Initiatives: Perspectives from Southeast Asia.” RSIS Working Paper Series No. 265. Week 7. The Region and the ‘ Rest ’ II (Feb. 27, Mar. 1, 3) Batabyal A. (2011). "Looking East 1: South-East Asia and ASEAN." Chapter 12 in Handbook of India's International Relations, Relations, pp. 131-142. Rangsimaporn P. (2009). "Russia's Search for Influence in Southeast Asia." Asian Asia." Asian Survey 49(5), pp. 786-808. Stubbs R. (2014). "ASEAN's leadership in East Asian region-building: strength in weakness." The Pacific Review, 27(4), pp. 523-541. Due: Reaction Memo 2. Coverage: Weeks 5-7.
Week 8. Civil Society and Non-state actors (Mar. 6, 8, 10) Alatas A. (2001). "ASEAN: An Association in Search of People or the People's Search for an Association." Report of the First ASEAN People's Assembly, Jakarta: Centre for Strategic and International Studies. Collins A. (2008). "A People-Oriented ASEAN: A Door Ajar or Closed for Civil Society Organisations?" Contemporary Southeast Asia, 30(2), pp. 313-331. Igarashi S. (2011). "The New Regional Order and Transnational Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Focusing on Alternative Regionalism from Below in the Process of Building the ASEAN Community." World Political Science, 7(1), pp. 2363-4782. Due: 600-800 word description of your revised research topic. Include a 10-entry bibliography.
PART II. ISSUES OF GOVERNANCE Week 9. ‘ Asian Asian Values’ and Human Rights? (Mar. 13, 15, 17)
Kraft S. (2001). “Human Rights, ASEAN and Constructivism: Revisiting the ‘Asian Values’ Discourse.” Philippine Political Science Journal 22(45), pp. 33-54. Ciorciari J. (2012). “Institutionalizing Human Rights in Southeast Asia.” Human Rights Quarterly 34(3), pp. 695-725. Oishi M. (2016). “Can ASEAN Cope with ‘Human Insecurity’ in Southeast Asia? In Search of a Asia, pp. 103-119. New ASEAN Way.” Chapter 7 in Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia, Week 10. Borders and Human Mobilities (Mar. 20, 22, 24)
Petcharamesree S. (2015). “ASEAN and Its Approach to Forced Migration Issues.” International Journal of Human Rights, (2), pp. 173-190. Munro P. (2012). “Harbouring the Illicit: Borderlands and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia.” Crime, Law, Social Change 58, pp. 159-177. 159 -177. Due: Reaction Memo 3. Coverage: Weeks 8-10. Week 11. South China Sea (Mar. 27, 29, 31) Truong T-D. & Knio K. (2016). "A Critical Genealogy of the Emergence of the South China Sea as a 'Complex' in International Relations" and “The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III) and China's Assertion of the U-shaped Line." Chapters 3 and 4 in The T he South China Sea and Asian Regionalism: A Critical Realist Perspective, Perspective , pp. 27-83. Week 12. Ecological Stresses and the Environment (Apr. 3, 5, 7)
Varrkey H. (2014). “Regional Cooperation, Patronage and the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution.” International Environmental Agreements 14(1), pp. 65-81.
Elliot L. (2011). “ASEAN and Environmental Governance: Strategies of Regionalism in Southeast Asia.” Global Environmental Politics 12(3), pp. 38-57. Week 13. Holy Week Break Week 14. Integration I (Apr. 17, 19, 21) Top-down regionalism and institution building.
Acharya A. (2012). “Whither Southeast Asia?” Chapter 9 In The Making of Southeast Asia: International Relations of a Region. Region. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, pp. 289-301. Dent M. (2006). “The New Economic Bilateralism in Southeast Asia: Region Convergent or Region-Divergent?” International Relations of the Asia Pacific, 6(1), 6 (1), p. 81 Jones D. & Jenne N. (2015). “Weak States’ Regionalism: ASEAN and the Limits of Security Cooperation in Pacific Asia.” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 16(2), pp. 209-240. Week 15. Integration II (Apr. ( Apr. 24, 26, 28) Bottom-up region-building efforts and challenges. Jönsson K. (2010). “ Unity-in-Diversity? Regional Identity-building in Southeast Asia.” Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 29(2), pp. 41-72. Chu T-W. (2016). "Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia: Impediments to Achieving a PeopleOriented ASEAN." Chapter 10 in Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia, Asia, pp. 157-172. Allison L. (2016). “ASEAN’s ‘People-oriented’ Aspirations: Civil Society Influences on Nontraditional Security Governance.” Australian Journal of International Affairs, 71(1), pp. 24-41. Due: Reaction Memo 4. Coverage: Weeks 11-15.
Week 16. Research Break (May 1, 3, 5)
Week 17. Wrapping Up (May 8, 10, 12) We take stock of some of the general themes discussed in the semester and discuss the research papers. Due: Research Paper GENERAL GUIDELINES 1. Plagiarism. All written assignments shall be uploaded to Turnitin. Students who have plagiarised any written work will be subject to disciplinary action as prescribed by the university rules and the student’s magna carta. For tips on how not to commit plagiarism, click here. here.
2. Referencing. I am used to the APA style, but you can use others as long as it’s consistent. For various formatting guides, click here click here.. 3. Oral Examination. I may require a short oral examination on your final paper. 4. Attendance. Per university rules, you cannot exceed six absences in the duration of the semester. If you come 10 minutes after the bell has rung, you will be marked late. If you come 30 minutes after the bell has rung, you will be marked absent. Absences will not be recorded if you can provide documentary evidence that you were sick, indisposed or off on an official university activity. 5. Absences/Sickness/Other Issues. If you have health issues that you think may affect your performance in class, please do not hesitate to approach me at the beginning of the semester so we can make necessary adjustments. adjus tments. 6. Late Submissions. All late submissions will garner a 0.5-point deduction per 12 hours after the deadline. 7. Consultations. Please e-mail to set an appointment during the hours listed above. If you cannot make it during those periods, we can arrange to have a virtual chat by Skype at a time convenient to us both. 8. E-mail. These are great for short queries. I usually reply within 24-48 hours. If I do not reply, please re-send your message.
