| Week |
Course Content |
| Week 1 |
Course Introduction: Explaining IR Theory in Indo-Pacific 9/10
Ganguly et al. 2018. “Introduction,” in Sumit Ganguly, Andrew Scobell, Joseph Chinyong Liow (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security, 1-8, New York: Routledge.
Peou, Sorpong. 2022. “Introduction: Peace and Security in Indo- Pacific Asia” in Peace and Security in Indo-Pacific Asia: IR Perspectives in Context, 1-20, New York: Routledge. |
| Week 2 |
Mid-Autumn holiday |
| Week 3 |
Taiwan-China Relations and Security across the Taiwan Strait 9/24
Chou, Chih-Chieh. 2018. “Contending Notions of the Cross-Strait Status Quo in Taiwan and Across the Strait: Impacts on U.S.-Taiwan Relations*,” The China Review, 18(3), 121–148.
Cole, J Michael. 2020. “The gloves come off China’s punitive strategy”, in Cross-Strait Relations since 2016: The End of the Illusion, 25-68, Oxon: Routledge.
Wang, Vincent Wei-cheng and Jacques deLisle. 2021. “U.S.-Taiwan relations: continuity and change in a triangular dynamic” in June Teufel Dreyer and Jacques deLisle (eds.) Taiwan in the Era of Tsai Ing-wen Changes and Challenges, 162-207, New York: Routledge. |
| Week 4 |
The South China Sea Disputes and Power Politics 10/1
O’Neill, Daniel C. 2018. Dividing ASEAN and Conquering the South China Sea: China’s Financial Power Projection Hong Kong University Press.
Scobell, Andrew. 2018. “The South China Sea and U.S.-China Rivalry”, Political Science Quarterly, 133(2).
Zhang, Ketian. 2019. “Cautious Bully Reputation, Resolve, and Beijing’s Use of Coercion in the South China Sea”, International Security, 44(1).
Chen, Mumin. 2016. “Taiwan and the South China Sea,” in Gunter Schubert Ed., Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan, 499-512. |
| Week 5 |
ASEAN and Security of South-east Asia 10/8 (Guest lecturer Zarina Othman)
Acharya, Amitav. 2021. “Responding to Great Power Rivalry” in ASEAN and Regional Order: Revisiting Security Community in Southeast Asia. London: Routledge.
Acharya, Amitav. 2021. “Anchoring Multilateralism: From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific” in ASEAN and Regional Order: Revisiting Security Community in Southeast Asia. London: Routledge.
Caballero-Anthony, Mely & Ralf Emmers. 2022. “Keeping the peace in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the quest for positive peace,” The Pacific Review.
(Recommended) Caballero-Anthony, Mely. 2018. “Security Governance in Southeast Asia and Beyond” in Negotiating Governance on Non-Traditional Security in Southeast Asia and Beyond. New York: Columbia University. |
| Week 6 |
Narcotics and Crime Without Borders 10/15 (Guest lecturer Zarina Othman)
Luong, Hai Thanh. 2022. “Transnational Drug Trafficking In Southeast Asia”, Revista Crimininalidad. 64(1), 177-192.
Othman, Zarina. 2019. “Myanmar (Burma): Born to be a Narco-State?”, Asian Profile, 53(1). 67-87.
Zarina Othman and Nor Azizan Idris. “Illicit drugs as a human security threat in East Asia,” in Siriporn Wajwalku, Kong Chong Ho and Osamu Yoshida, eds. 2016. Advancing Regional Commons in the New East Asia. 2016. London: Routledge. |
| Week 7 |
Coup d'etat in Myanmar: A ‘multi-dimensional’ Crisis 10/22 (Guest lecturer Zarina Othman)
Council on Foreign Relations. 2022. “ Myanmar’s Troubled History: Coups, Military Rule, and Ethnic Conflict”, 31st January, https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/myanmar-history-coup-military-rule-ethnic-conflict-rohingya#chapter-title-0-5
Lin, Joyce. 2022. “The Impact of the Myanmar Coup on Regional Security in Southeast Asia”, in 2021 Report on the Security Landscape of the Indo-Pacific Region. Taipei: Institute for National Defense and Security Research. |
| Week 8 |
Refugees and Human Security Issues: The Rohingyas case 10/29 (Guest lecturer Zarina Othman)
Syeda Naushin Parnini. 2013. The Crisis of the Rohingya as a Muslim Minority in Myanmar and Bilateral Relations with Bangladesh, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 2013, Vol. 33, No. 2, 281-297
Katherine Southwick. 2013. Preventing Mass Atrocities against Stateless Rohingya in Myanmar: A call for Solutions, Journal of International Affairs 2015, Spring/Summer 2015, Vol. 68, No. 2. 137-156.
Richa Shivakoti. 2017. ASEAN’s role in the Rohingya refugee crisis, Forced Migration Review. Oct. 2017, Issue 56, p75-77. |
| Week 9 |
Dispute between China and India in the Himalayas 11/5
Ganguly, Sumit, and Andrew Scobell. 2018. “The Himalayan Impasse: Sino-Indian in the wake of Doklam”, The Washington Quarterly, 41.
Joshi, Yogesh, and Anit Mukherjee. 2019. "From denial to punishment: the security dilemma and changes in India’s military strategy towards China" Asian Security, 15(1): 25-43.
Rup Narayan Das. 2021. “The Galwan Clash: A Landmark change in India-China Relations”, Global Asia, 16(2). |
| Week 10 |
China’s Rise in South Asia: Security Implications and Regional Responses 11/12
Sachdeva, Gulshan. 2021. “China’s Current South Asia Strategy” in David B. H. Denoon (ed.) China’s Grand Strategy: A Roadmap to Global Power? 146-172, New York: New York University.
Kumar, Sanjeev. 2019. “China’s South Asia Policy in the ‘New Era’”, India Quarterly, 75(2) 137–154.
Pal, Deep. 2021. “China’s Influence in South Asia Vulnerabilities and Resilience in Four Countries”. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Paul, TV. 2019. “When balance of power meets globalization: China, India and the small states of South Asia”, Politics, 39(1) 50–63. |
| Week 11 |
10. India’s Strategic Thinking and Security 11/19
Paranjpe, Shrikant. 2020. “India: Strategic Culture and National Security Policy”, in India's Strategic Culture: The Making of National Security Policy, New York: Routledge.
Ganguly, Sumit.2017. “Indian Security Policy”, in Myriam Cavelty and Thierry Balazacq (Ed) Routledge Handbook of Security Studies.
Pant, H.V., and Bommakanti, K., 2019. “India's National Security: Challenges and Dilemmas”. International Affairs, 95(4), pp.835-857.
(Recommended) Jaishankar, Dhruva. 2019. "Survey of India’s Strategic Community." New Delhi: Brooking Institute |
| Week 12 |
11. India-Pakistan Relations and Pakistan’s Security 11/26 (Guest speaker: Ghulam Ali)
Bhatnagar, Stuti. 2021. India’s Pakistan Policy: How Think Tanks Are Shaping Foreign Relations. New York: Routledge.
Khan, Yasmin. 2017. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. London: Yale University. |
| Week 13 |
Religious Violence in South Asia 12/3
Juergensmeyer, Mark. 2020. “Religion and Violence in Modern South Asia”, in Louise Edwards, Nigel Penn and Jay Winter (eds.) The Cambridge World History of Violence Volume IV 1800 to the Present, 110-124,Cambridge University Press.
Guhathakurta, Meghna. 2016. “Religious Minorities”, in Ali Riaz and Mohammad Sajjadur Rahman (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh, 316-324, Routledge.
Peker, Efe. 2019.“Religious Populism, Memory, and Violence in India”, New Diversities, 21(2). |
| Week 14 |
All About Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis 12/10
Abraham, Biju Paul, and Partha Ray. 2022. “The Sri Lankan Crisis An Outcome of Populist Macroeconomics and Family-run Polity?”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol LVII (32)
Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Panditaratne, Dinusha; Kannangara, Pabasara, and Divya Hundlani. 2020. Chinese Investment and the BRI in Sri Lanka, March. Asia-Pacific Programme. Chatham House. |
| Week 15 |
Gender (In)equality in South Asia 12/17 (Guest Speaker: Dr. Mallika Joseph) |
| Week 16 |
Water Wars in Southeast and South Asia 12/24
Sebastian Biba. 2014. “ Desecuritization in China’s Behavior towards Its Transboundary Rivers: the Mekong River, the Brahmaputra River, and the Irtysh and Ili Rivers”, 23 (85), 21-43.
Sinha, Uttam Kumar. 2012. “Examining China’s Hydro-Behaviour: Peaceful or Assertive?”, Strategic Analysis, 36 (1), 41-56.
Gupta, Joyeeta. 2016. “The Watercourses Convention, Hydro-hegemony and Transboundary Water Issues”, The International Spectator, 51(3), 118-131. |
| Week 17 |
Preparation for the final report |
| Week 18 |
Submission of final report |
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