• Asian Nation Studies: China , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site.
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/programs/chinese_courses.html - September 18, 2004

• Asian Studies Seminar: Scope and Methods Section C: China , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site.
  chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/programs/chinese_courses.html - September 18, 2004

• China and Asia in the 21st Century , Curley, Melissa, and Thomas, Nicholas
  This lecture will discuss: Chinese foreign policy and regional affairs, China and the Northeast Asia, China and Taiwan (and Hong Kong), China and Southeast Asia, China and South Asia, Issues in Chinese foreign policy, human rights, the environment, security concerns,Êand will include a guest diplomatic lecturers.
  www.hku.hk/cas/bc/part1.pdf - August 6, 2004

• China and the World , Ren, Yue
  Note: In order to access the course descriptions, select \"Courses Offered\" from the menu on the left and follow the links to corresponding UndergraduateÊcourses. China\'s place in the world has changed dramatically since the establishment of the People\'s Republic of China in 1949. How do we account for the transformation of the country\'s position from being a Soviet ally challenging the West, to an independent radical revolutionary state, and then reform-minded country eager to join the international community? As communism collapsed elsewhere after the end of the Cold War China is becoming an emerging global power practising \'socialism with Chinese characteristics\'. How do we understand and analyze China\'s relations with the rest of the world? This course examines China\'s interaction with the rest of the world since 1949, with reference on competing perspectives including power-political, economic inter-dependence and historical-cultural analysis. The course concludes with a critical assessment of China\'s position in a globalizing world.
  www.hku.hk/ppaweb/ - August 6, 2004

• China in International Affairs , University of Southern California
  Economic reform, the open door, and China's changing role in the international system. Relations with the United States, Japan, and other key powers in Asia. Tensions between the interests of American business and the human rights community over China policy.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/programs/syllabus.htm - September 21, 2004

• China: From Revolution to Reform , Boston University
  Introduction to modern Chinese politics including the development of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the political development of the PRC since its founding in 1949. Focus is on the party's official policy and its changing relationships with the people of China.
  www.bu.edu/ir/undergrad/undergradcourses.html - September 22, 2004

• Chinese Communist Party Under Reform , University of British Columbia
  This is an advanced reading course designed for graduate students in the MAPPS program, Political Science, History or Asian Studies. Previous study of China or advanced study of state socialist systems is required. The course will cover the structure, function, and issues facing the CCP with a focus on the reforms in the post-Mao period and scholarly approaches and interpretations of these issues
  www.iar.ubc.ca/mapps/courses2003/iar515L.html - August 5, 2004

• Chinese Development , Princeton University
  A consideration of policies for political and economic development during modern times, especially since 1949. Topics include traditional politics and agriculture, the revolutionary party, land reform and industrial socialization, tax and investment, the campaign method, the army, and the "four modernizations." Each subject is discussed in terms that allow comparison with other countries.
  www.princeton.edu/pr/catalog/gsa/03/326.htm - August 12, 2004

• Chinese Foreign policy , Tang, James
  Note: In order to access the course descriptions, select \"Courses Offered\" from the menu on the left and follow the links to corresponding Graduate courses. This course is an in-depth survey of Chinese foreign policy since 1949. It begins with a framework of analysis for studying Chinese foreign policy. Different models and explanations are used in analyzing Chinese foreign policy. Some special emphasis is placed on the revolutionary source of Chinese foreign policy and China\'s position in the changing international environment during the Cold War and beyond.
  www.hku.hk/ppaweb/ - August 6, 2004

• Chinese Foreign Policy , Naval Postgraduate School
  Naval Postgraduate School NSA Regional Security Studies: Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific course listing, including "Chinese Foreign Policy."
  www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/nsa/farEast.asp - August 9, 2004

• Chinese Foreign Policy , University of Southern California
  Research problems in political, economic, military, and ideological issues.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/programs/syllabus.htm - September 21, 2004

• Chinese Foreign Policy , Princeton University
  Intensive analysis of major questions in Chinese foreign policy, with particular emphasis on issues and major events in Sino-American relations. Other topics include Sino-Soviet relations and the origins and development of the strategic triangle, Sino-Vietnamese relations, China's use of force, the international implications of China's open-door policy, and China's changing worldview. The seminar draws on both general works in international relations and materials dealing specifically with China. The course covers historical analysis as well as policy-oriented studies.
  www.princeton.edu/pr/catalog/gsa/03/326.htm - August 12, 2004

• Chinese Foreign Policy , Claremont McKenna College
  Examines China's contemporary foreign policy with emphasis on its structure and processes and China's changing relations with the United States, the former Soviet Union, Japan, and other Asian and Pacific countries. It focuses on such issues as international perceptions, negotiating tactics, open-door economic policy, and strategic orientations.
  claremontmckenna.edu/admission/catalog/2003-2004/htmls/majors/government.asp#courses - August 12, 2004

• Chinese Politics , Princeton University
  Traditional politics; the rise of warlords, nationalists, and radicals; causes of the "Liberation", land reform, Hundred Flowers, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, and Four Modernizations; policies of Mao and Deng for development, health, law, and rights.
  www.princeton.edu/pr/catalog/ua/03/304.htm - August 12, 2004

• Chinese Politics , Princeton University
  A survey of basic interpretative and methodological issues in Chinese politics. The specific focus of the course varies from year to year.
  www.princeton.edu/pr/catalog/gsa/03/326.htm - August 12, 2004

• Chinese Politics: From Revolution to Reform , Boston University
  Introduction to modern Chinese politics including the development of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the political development of the PRC since its founding in 1949. Focus is on the party's official policy and its changing relationships with the people of China.
  www.bu.edu/eas/courses.html - September 22, 2004

• Chinese Politics: The Transformation and the Era of Reform , Stanford University
  Professor Jean Oi's course discusses the content, process, and consequences of reform in China from 1976 to the present. Changes in property rights, markets, credit, and the role of the state in economic development are also covered.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/673/ - September 21, 2004

• Comparative Politics of China and Northeast Asia , George Washington University
  Political institutions and processes of China (including Taiwan), Japan, and Korea since WW II. Influence of indigenous traditions and foreign contacts.
  www.gwu.edu/~eastasia/courses/ug_desc.htm - August 12, 2004

• Contemporary Chinese Development , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site.
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/programs/chinese_courses.html - September 18, 2004

• Foreign Policy of the People's Republic of China , Boston University
  Explores China's perception of its role in the world, its evolution from a regional to a world power, and its security and economic relationships within the international system. Relationships with the superpowers, Third World, and world economy, focusing on technology and capital transfers.
  www.bu.edu/eas/courses.html - September 22, 2004

• Foreign Policy of the People's Republic of China , George Washington University
  Readings and research on the main approaches to analyzing China's foreign policy and foreign relations.
  www.gwu.edu/~eastasia/courses/grd_desc.htm - August 12, 2004

• Graduate Seminar: Approaches to Chinese Politics , Stanford University
  This seminar, taught by Professor Jean Oi, provides bibliographic control of the major secondary literature on Chinese politics, organized around theoretical concepts and issues found in studies of the Chinese political system.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/678/ - September 21, 2004

• Intergovernmental Relations in Greater China , University of Hong Kong
  See Courses Offered.
  www.hku.hk/ppaweb/ - August 6, 2004

• International Relations Theory and China's Foreign Relations , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Graduate seminar attempts to bridge the gap between Chinese area studies and international relations theory. Students think theoretically about China's foreign relations and ask what challenges Chinese cases pose for the existing theoretical literature. Analysis of the applicability of structural theories of international politics; two-level approaches that link international and domestic factors; ideational and normative approaches; and psychological theories of leadership decision-making. Discussion of sources and methods in researching Chinese foreign policy.
  student.mit.edu/catalog/m17b.html#17.404 - September 18, 2004

• Introduction to Chinese Politics , Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
  This course will examine China's recent political history, the structures and functions of its political system, current political and economic developments in China, and assessments of China's place in the new global order.
  academics.sru.edu/catalog/courses_4.asp#pols - September 21, 2004

• Issues in Contemporary China , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Preparatory subject for MIT students who go to China on internships with the International Science & Technology Initiative (MISTI). Subject explores some critical issues in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong today. Eight sessions are taught by different MIT professors or outside experts, covering important aspects of Chinese life and/or China's current relationship with the outside world. Topics include health issues, Sino-US relations, economic transformation, and human rights. One weekend session on the skills needed to successfully navigate Chinese society. Limited to students accepted to MISTI internships to China.
  student.mit.edu/catalog/m17b.html#17.549 - September 19, 2004

• Politics and Development: China , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site.
  chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/programs/chinese_courses.html - September 18, 2004

• Politics in the People's Republic of China , University of Southern California
  The Chinese revolution; social, political, and economic developments in post-1949 China; China after Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung).
  www.usc.edu/dept/publications/cat2003/las/LAS_POSC/coi.html - September 21, 2004

• Politics of China , Concordia University
  This course focuses on political development of China. Topics include political mobilization, economic development, democracy, and the policy process.
  artsandscience.concordia.ca/politicalscience/Courses_Description.html - August 5, 2004

• Politics of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan , University of Richmond
  Study of contemporary political history of China; analysis of political systems of the People's Republic of China, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the Republic of China on Taiwain; and discussion of key political, economic, and military issues.
  polisci.richmond.edu/curriculum/plsc_345.htm - August 12, 2004

• Problems and Issues in Post-Mao China , Boston University
  An in-depth examination of politics in post-Mao China, this course focuses on several critical issues and uses various conceptual frameworks to try to understand why the reform process broke down and examines prospects for the future.
  www.bu.edu/ir/gradcourses.html - September 22, 2004

• Seminar in Taiwanese Studies , University of Victoria
  An extensive study of selected major issues in 20th century Taiwan. Major themes will be problems of liberal democracy and revolutionary movements, evaluation of the "economic miracle," emergence of nationalism, and prospects for Sino-Taiwanese relations.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2004/CDs/PACI/417.html - August 6, 2004

• Seminar on Social Continuity and Social Change in China , University of Victoria
  This seminar will explore selected aspects of modern and pre-modern China, focusing on the theme of social continuity and change as China moves from a Confucian state, through the Nationalist period, to a socialist state. Oral presentations, written papers and participation in class discussion are required throughout the course.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2004/CDs/PACI/420.html - August 6, 2004

• Society and Politics in China , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site.
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/programs/chinese_courses.html - September 18, 2004

• 20th-Century China , Huang, Philip C.
  The course examines modern Chinese history against the three dominant ideological views of it.
  www.sscnet.ucla.edu/04S/hist184-1/ - August 6, 2004

• A Commentary on the Communist Party's Fifteenth Central Committee Plenary Session , Zhang, Chun Xiang
  The Communist Party of China's (CCP) fifteenth Central Committee's sixth meeting was held in Beijing from September 24 to 26th.Ê The meeting discussed "Strengthening the CCP and improving the Party's decision making style."Ê Following the conference, reports questioned China's future as a peacefully developing and stable country, the challenges facing relations with Taiwan, and Taiwan's role as a working model of democraticy.Ê The following article will comment on debate surrounding this governmental meeting.
  www.npic.edu.tw/~chchang/15th6.htm - December 2, 2004

• A Study of the Political Interaction Between Taiwan and Mainland China (1995-2000) , Lee, Ming-Yi
  This isÊa doctoral dissertation in interdisciplinary studies examining the political interaction between Taiwan and Mainland China (1995-2000).
  etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0731101-115607 - July 31, 2001

• Bachman, David , University of Washington
  Dr. David Bachman is a specialist inÊChinese domestic and foreign politics as well asÊU.S.-China relations. Dr. Bachman is aÊPost-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley, 1983-84.
  jsis.artsci.washington.edu/cv/faccv/a-e/bachman.html - November 5, 2004

• Beijing Red Guard Factionalism: Social Interpretations Reconsidered , Walder, Andrew
  A generation of research on Red Guard politics has traced the origins of its debilitating factionalism to social and political divisions that were well established among students on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. These social interpretations impute political motives to student activists according to their positions in the pre-Cultural Revolution status quo. However, a closer examination of events during the summer and early autumn of 1966 in Beijing where the Red Guards and their factional divisions first emerged suggests a different interpretation. Factions took shape when student activists from similar social backgrounds responded differently to ambiguous and rapidly changing political signals. These initial acts left students on opposite sides of a growing political divide and exposed them to unforeseen risks as the movement took unpredictable turns. In this interpretation, student divisions are rooted in political interactions in the early phases of the conflict itself. Red Guard factions did not emerge in Beijing as expressions of opposed group interests based on pre-existing social divisions, but as struggles to vindicate earlier actions and avoid the harsh fate of political victims.
  iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/20204/Walder_Beijing.pdf - January 1, 2001

• Building Trust in the United States-China Relationship , Choate, Allen C.
  This paper expresses that the United States-China relationship lacks traction. There are neither sufficient mutually perceived common interests nor adequate and shared long-term goals in the relationship that allow both countries to weather the inevitable buffeting by single episodes and incidents. In recent times that list includes United States objections to what it considers to be human rights violations within China, China\'s entry into the World Trade Organization, United States charges of Chinese sales of weapons of mass destruction, the Hong Kong transition, the issue of Most Favored Nation status for China, the ongoing exposure of Asian contributions to American political campaigns, and Chinese state enterprise investments and sales in the United States. All of these issues not only influence the relationship, they actually drive it. The essay concludes with some suggestions about what needs to be done and what can be done to improve the relationship.
  www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/wp4.pdf - October 1, 1997

• Chen, Yali (Lily) , Center for Defense Information
  Yali Chen is a Research Analyst for the Center for Defense Information. Chen runs "Washington Observer, a leading source of Chinese-language news analysis on US domestic politics, foreign policy, defense issues, economy and social/cultural life. Before joining CDI, Yali Chen studied at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in Princeton University and received her masters degree in international relations in June 2002.
  www.cdi.org/staff/staffinfo.cfm?StaffID=86&&Orderby=LName&ProgramID=27&Program=&Name=&Issue=&keywords=&from_page=index - November 8, 2004

• China and International Law , University of Pennsylvania
  China\'s engagement with the international legal order has expanded greatly during the last quarter-century. The PRC has become a member of most major international organizations, enacted elaborate legal frameworks for foreign investment and trade, acceded to (or promised to accede to) major international conventions, entered into a host of bilateral treaties and agreements, and engaged in debates and disputes concerning international human rights and the rule of law. This seminar examines contemporary China\'s approach to international law, focusing on how China has understood and addressed key principles and doctrines of international law, and on international legal disputes and issues that have been important for China (including Taiwan and Hong Kong).Introductory sessions will focus on major themes in ChinaÕs earlier approach to international law, including those that emerged during the Maoist/high socialist period, the 19th century encounter with Western international law, and \"traditional\" Chinese approaches to international law (during the late imperial period and in classical Chinese thought).
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• China and the World , Shi, Tianjian
  The formulation and development of Chinese foreign relations and foreign policy since 1949. The rationales of policy as well as organizational, cultural, and perceptual factors that influence Chinese foreign policy formulation.
  aas.duke.edu/reg/synopsis/view.cgi?s=01&action=display&subj=POLSCI&course=182&sem=0940 - August 12, 2004

• China and the World , Duke University
  The course "China and the World" (POLSCI 182-01), taught at Duke University,  studies the formulation and development of Chinese foreign relations and foreign policy since 1949. The rationales of policy as well as organizational, cultural, and perceptual factors that influence Chinese foreign policy formulation. Instructor: Shi
  www.aas.duke.edu/reg/synopsis/view.cgi?s=01&action=display&subj=POLSCI&course=182&sem=0940 - August 22, 2004

• China in International Affairs , University of Southern California
  Economic reform, the open door, and ChinaÕs changing role in the international system. Relations with the United States, Japan, and other key powers in Asia. Tensions between the interests of American business and the human rights community over China policy.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/programs/syllabus.htm - October 2, 2004

• China in the American Political Imagination , Carola McGiffet, ed.
  As China becomes an increasingly powerful political and economic leader in Asia and around the world, Americans and Chinese alike must reexamine the images by which they judge each other. By exploring the basis of past and present perceptions (and misperceptions) of one another, we may begin the process of developing a stable relationship based on a sound understanding and accurate assessment of our mutual¡ªand at times conflicting-interests and goals. This book examines the origins of U.S. images of China. The authors represent a wide range of professional fields-global strategists, historians, journalists, military experts, business representatives, human rights activists, and government officials¡ªand explore their respective perceptions of China from their various functional points of view.
  csis.zoovy.com/product/0892064307 - February 1, 2005

• China Since 1927 , University of Iowa
  This course is a survey of twentieth-century Chinese history, beginning with to coming to power of the Nationalist Party under Chiang Kai-shek in 1927.  We will study Nationalist rule and Japanese invasion in the 1930s; the rise of the Communist Party and the establishment of the People’s Republic under Mao Zedong in 1949; the sweeping changes of the early Communist era; Maoist radicalism and the Cultural Revolution; the reforms of Deng Xiaoping; and the situation in China (and Taiwan) today.
  isis2.uiowa.edu/isis/courses/detail/16W:198:001 - January 12, 2005

• China under Mao , Stanford University
  In this course, Professor Andrew Walder examines the transformation of Chinese society from the 1949 revolution to the eve of China's reforms in 1978. Other topics covered include the creation of a socialist economy; the reorganization of rural society and urban workplaces; the emergence of new inequalities of power and opportunity; and the new forms of social conflict during Mao's Cultural Revolution of 1966-1969 and its aftermath.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/502/ - August 22, 2004

• China Under Mao , Stanford University
  In this course, Professor Andrew Walder examines the transformation of Chinese society from the 1949 revolution to the eve of China's reforms in 1978. Other topics covered include the creation of a socialist economy; the reorganization of rural society and urban workplaces; the emergence of new inequalities of power and opportunity; and the new forms of social conflict during Mao's Cultural Revolution of 1966-1969 and its aftermath.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/502/ - January 12, 2005

• China Under Reform, 1978 to the Present , Claremont McKenna College
  China's efforts to define its position in the world in the post-Cold Ear era, reform Communism, and find an appropriate path to modernization. Special attention given to China's emergence as a rising economic/political power and its implications for the international order and to the process of economic and political structural reform. The Chinese experience is evaluated in light of alternative approaches to the transition from communism, China's historic traditions, and globalization. Other topics include human rights, population control and environmental issues, the search for national identity and issues of gender.
  claremontmckenna.edu/admission/catalog/2003-2004/htmls/majors/government.asp#courses - January 19, 2005

• China's changing images of Japan, 1989-2001: the struggle to balance partnership and rivalry , Rozman, Gilbert
  This item requires a subscription to International Relations of the Asia-Pacific Online. Chinese views of Japan, both official and popular, grew more negative after the end of the cold war. From 1989 to 1993 the Japanese side bears much of the blame for failing to overcome the distrust of the Chinese people. When the major deterioration in Japan\'s image occurred from 1994 to 1998, however, it was China's leadership that was chiefly responsible, arousing nationalist emotions. When China\'s leaders sought to reverse this process from 1999 to 2001 they were unsuccessful both because of the intensity of public emotions and the lack of reassurance from the Japanese leadership and public. Divisions inside China reveal the hesitation of leaders to foster a realistic image of Japan. By tracing the content of changing Chinese perceptions, we can observe the effects of overconfidence and insensitivity in each state and recognize the difficulty at times of uncertain national identity of finding a coordinated strategy for expanding mutual trust.
  irap.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/2/1/95 - February 1, 2002

• China's Minorities: The Case of Xinjiang and the Uyghur People , Gladney, Dru C.
  This report by renowned University of Hawai'i at Manoa Professor Dru C. Gladney for the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights analyzes the likelihood that Uyghur separatism in Xinjiang will lead to a weakened or collapsed China. Gladney's findings are that such a scenario is unlikely, for the following reasons: China's economic success has made Xinjiang too dependent upon Beijing; Uyghur Muslims are just as likely to quarrel with other ethinic minorities, including other Muslim groups, as they are with Beijing; Xinjiang does not appear to have the capabilities, in terms of economic structure or a power-base, to transition successfully from a Chinese province to a successful, independent state.
  www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/AllSymbols/79E5FCFFB0A0E39CC1256D26004661FC/$File/G0314169.pdf?OpenElement - April 22, 2005

• China's Muslim Separatists: Terrorists or Terrorized? , Nankivell, Nathan
  With a brief overview of the unrest between the ethnic Uygar minority's separatist Muslim movement in Xinjiang and Beijing, this article addresses current concerns in building a peaceful relationship between the two parties. Beijing views Xinjiang as a resource goldmine, with some of the largest oil and gas reserves in China. Beijing also sees its Muslim population as a threat, susceptible to terrorist separatist movements from neighboring minorities and Muslims in Western China and Central Asia, claiming that numerous Xinjiang Uygurs have trained with the mujaheddin in Pakistan. Meanwhile, human rights activists say that numerous Uygurs have suffered unjust discrimination, abuse, arrests, and even deaths at the hands of the dominant Han Chinese majority and their government officials.
  www.iir.ubc.ca/cancaps/chinaterror.pdf - April 22, 2005

• China's New Journey to the West , Gill, Bates; Oresman,Matthew
  One of the most intriguing developments in Central Asia over the past decade has been China\'s renewed attention to diplomacy in the region. China\'s interest in building relations with Central Asia is not startling given its history, but the agility and creativity it has recently exercised in doing so has taken many by surprise. China has moved rapidly from the difficult task of delineating and disarming its borders with Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan to building a multilateral organization and growing economic and security ties, all the while working to alleviate traditional suspicions among Central Asian states about the Chinese government\'s true intentions.This report argues that China\'s prominence in Central Asia will grow over the next decade, particularly if Russia\'s position continues to wane and the strategic attention of the United States is drawn elsewhere in the years ahead. However, on the basis of geography and economic reality alone, China appears well placed to expand its influence in the region over the long haul. Central Asian states will continue to seek robust engagement with China as their transportation infrastructure and developing economies become more intertwined, and China will likely continue to exercise a light touch with its diplomacy to assure stable, productive relations along its interior frontiers, dispelling fears that it is seeking regional hegemony
  csis.zoovy.com/product/089206434X - February 1, 2005

• China's Recent Approach To Asia: Seeking Long Term Gains , Sutter, Robert
  Robert Sutter, professor of Asian studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, analyzes the domestic motivations behind China's Asia policy and security framework. Although China's efforts to engage its Asian neighbors are often characterized as a response to perceived U.S. containment, Dr. Sutter argues that China's goals are more calculated and long term. At a time of economic and political transition, he maintains, China seeks to secure its foreign policy environment, promote economic exchanges that benefit its internal development, calm regional fears about its rising power and national intentions, and boost its regional and international power and influence. In these efforts, China has made considerable progress toward improving relations with most of its Asian neighbors. Nevertheless, these countries remain cautious about China's intentions as a rising power, and they continue to look to the United States as a desirable economic and security partner. As U.S. policymakers consider China policy, they must keep in mind that America's presence in Asia, especially in Central and South Asia, will largely determine whether current trends move in the direction of increased U.S. influence in the region or whether China will reassert its pre-September 11 efforts to restrict the U.S. presence in the region.
  www.nbr.org/publications/analysis/vol13no1/13.1.pdf - March 1, 2002

• China-India Relations Since Pokhran II: Assessing Sources of Conflict and Cooperation , Frazier, Mark W.
  This article assesses recent changes in bilateral relations between China and India following the South Asian nuclear tests of May 1998. As states, China and India share a number of similar problems and challenges, yet their bilateral relationship is one that remains fairly understudied by scholars and policy analysts. This gap in the literature is quickly being filled with new studies on Sino-Indian relations. This article first discusses China's fairly restrained reaction to India's nuclear tests and developments in Sino-Indian relations since 1998. It then examines several recent studies of various facets of the bilateral relationship. A number of institutional features particular to the foreign policy-making communities in China and India are identified as possible sources for the conduct of Sino-Indian relations and prospects for their future development analyzed. Among the most significant of these features is the degree of foreign policy conflict and consensus between civilian and military officials within each country.
  www.nbr.org/publications/review/vol3no2/v3n2.pdf - July 1, 2000

• China: 21st Century Superpower , York University
  China's relationship with the outside world has been one of the dominant themes in its development. How is China moving from its position of isolation to become a 21st century superpower? We focus on the post-1949 period, in particular, the Sino-Soviet relationship; American-China relations; China and Japan; China and India; Canadian-China policy; China's relations with Taiwan and Hong Kong; and China's integration into the global economy. A significant portion of the course will focus on the China trade and on key issues involved in doing business in China.
  www.yorku.ca/easp/courses/PoliticalScience/poli.htm - September 22, 2004

• China: From Revolution to Reform , Boston University
  Explores the economic, political, and social upheavals that followed the Chinese revolution in 1949 and the cause of subsequent inauguration of reform in the late 1970's. Analyzes the tensions that brought about the 1989 upheaval in Tiananmen Square, as well as the implications of China's emergence as an economic power.
  www.bu.edu/polisci/COURSES/courdesc.html - August 12, 2004

• China: The Long Revolution , Beloit College
  An examination of Chinese society and culture as seen through the social, political, cultural, and economic revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries. The course will feature materials from history, government, literature, and other disciplines to emphasize the theme that “modern China” developed from a long series of revolutionary experiences and struggles. In addition, the course will demonstrate how the concept of revolution continues to have an impact on the way Chinese view their own history and on their expectations for China’s future development.
  www.beloit.edu/~academic/fields/minors/asianstudies_courses.php - January 11, 2005

• Chine-U.S. Cooperation: Will It Last? , Jia, Qingguo
  The September terrorist attacks in the U.S. led to increased cooperation between the U.S. and Chinese governments against international terrorism. Dr. Jia will address the question of whether this is a marriage of convenience or a development of sustainable cooperation. Dr. Jia will argue that after twenty years of sweeping changes in China, the fundamental issue between China and the U.S. lies less in their substantive differences (economic, political, ideological and cultural) than in their differences in priorities. Dr. Jia will propose that Beijing and Washington can serve their best interests if the current emerging cooperative relationship is managed properly.
  ads.bookpark.ne.jp/ads/get.asp?site=SPFV&file=SPFV00064.pdf - November 9, 2004

• Chinese and East Asian Politics , University of California, Los Angeles
  UCLA general catalog of courses, no course description available at this site.
  www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/catalog.asp?sa=POL+SCI&funsel=3 - August 6, 2004

• Chinese Cultural Revolution , University of Pennsylvania
  The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution can be seen as the culmination of Maoist idealism, with faith in Chairman Mao and in human capacity for self-improvement reaching the level of religious mania. At the same time, the Cultural Revolution developed the most vicious and dishonest aspects of the Maoist regime to their logical extreme. The revolution turned on and devoured its own true believers, the best people it had-and the lies that justified such violence became too absurd to be believed by anyone for long. As a result, the Chinese Communist Party today must reckon with a complete lack of faith in socialism on the part of the people whose support it seeks.How do we make sense of this paradoxical period of recent Chinese history? In search of the truth, we will read a variety of memoirs, propaganda literature, and scholarly analyses.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - September 21, 2004

• Chinese Domestic Politics , Womack, Brantly
  Studies the structure and process of the Chinese political system, emphasizing political culture, socio-economic development and political socialization.
  etg08.itc.virginia.edu/cod.pages/20043/ASF/POLT.html - August 26, 2004

• Chinese Foreign Policy , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Subject reviews and analyzes the foreign policy of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the present. Discussion of Cold War history of Beijing's relations with the Soviet Union, the United States, Southeast Asia, and the Third World. Various theories of foreign policy are discussed as potential tools for understanding Chinese foreign policy behavior. Discussion of the future of Chinese foreign policy in light of the end of the Cold War, changes in the Chinese economy, and the post-Tiananmen legitimacy crisis in Beijing. Graduate students are expected to explore the subject in greater depth through reading and individual research.
  student.mit.edu/catalog/m17b.html#17.407 - September 18, 2004

• Chinese Foreign Policy , SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
  The cource covers historic precursors to China's foreign policy in the communist era; developments and changes in the foreign policy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the last fourty years; Beijing policy with respect to key georgaphic and functional issue areas and the tools Beijing employs to effect its policies; and the central factors affecting contemprorary Chinese forign policy and the PRC's changing role in the world.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/chinareadinglists/ChineseForeignPolicyLampton.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Chinese Foreign Policy , Sutter
  This course analyzes the evolution foreign policy of the Peoples Republic of China since 1949. It deals with China's objectives, instruments of policy, changing alignments, and growing role in international affairs. Course goals include gaining a thorough understanding of the variables affecting Chinese foreign policy and familiarity with major competing perspectives and issues in analyzing Chinese foreign policy.
  www.georgetown.edu/undergrad/bulletin/148courses.html - September 21, 2004

• Chinese Foreign Policy , Naval Postgraduate School
  One of the courses offered by the Department of NSA Regional Security Studies: Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific.
  www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/nsa/farEast.asp - September 21, 2004

• Chinese Foreign Policy , American Military University
  This course addresses the Chinese foreign, diplomatic, and international relations from an historical perspective through modern times. The Chinese foreign policy is addressed from both a regional and international perspective. Running throughout the course is the Chinese world view.
  www.apus.edu/AMU/Academics/CourseDescriptions.aspx?Prefix=NS - September 21, 2004

• Chinese Foreign Policy , Columbia University
  The international politics of China and its foreign relations, its intentions, capabilities, and strategies in world affairs, and the major instruments of its foreign policy, with primary emphasis on the People's Republic.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - August 30, 2004

• Chinese Foreign Policy , University of Southern California
  Research problems in political, economic, military, and ideological issues.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/programs/syllabus.htm - October 2, 2004

• Chinese Foreign Policy, 1949-2000 , Harvard University
  This course is an introduction to the descriptive history of China's international relations with special focus on different theoretical explanations for changes in foreign policy behavior (e.g. polarity, history, ideology, leadership, bureaucracy, among others).
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov1982/ - September 12, 2003

• Chinese Government and Politics , University of British Columbia
  The political system of China, approached from a number of perspectives: as a continuing development within the framework of Chinese history and culture; as a case study of political modernization; in the context of world Communist movements; as an object of comparison with other political systems.
  courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/main?pname=subjarea&tname=subjareas&req=3&dept=POLI&course=321A - January 18, 2005

• Chinese Political Philosophy , University of Toronto
  The course analyses both historically and systematically the development of Chinese political philosophy from ancient times to the present day.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS307H1 - January 1, 2004

• Chinese Political System , Saunders, Phillip C.
  This course provides an introduction to the study of the Chinese political system. The course begins with an overview of theoretical approaches to studying Chinese politics and survey of the historical legacies that shape modern China. Part two introduces and analyzes the key institutions and relationships that make up the modern Chinese political system. Part three examines a range of current Chinese domestic and foreign policy issues, including political reform, economic reforms, and Sino-U.S. relations. Part four looks briefly at Hong Kong and Taiwan politics to provide a comparative perspective. Students will learn to critically evaluate theoretical models of Chinese politics and apply them to both historical and current policy issues.
  gsti.miis.edu/neas/syllabus/Syllabus_ChinesePolSystem.pdf - September 27, 2004

• Chinese Politics , Duke University
  The Communist revolution, the structure of the political system and political decision making in the People's Republic of China in different eras of its evolution. The relations between state and society, and the political implications and consequences of reforms undertaken in the post-Mao era. Instructor: Shi
  www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/1025/POLSCI/169/ - September 22, 2004

• Chinese Politics , Duke University
  The Communist revolution, the structure of the political system and political decision making in the People's Republic of China in different eras of its evolution. The relations between state and society, and the political implications and consequences of reforms undertaken in the post-Mao era. Instructor: Shi
  www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/1025/POLSCI/169/ - August 22, 2004

• Chinese Politics and Domestic Priorities , Sutter
  The course analyzes major developments in Chinese politics and domestic priorities since 1949. It deals with significant turning points in elite politics and policy, and assesses the causes, effects, and implications of salient developments in Chinese politics and domestic priorities. Course goals include gaining a thorough understanding of variables affecting recent and current Chinese domestic politics and policy priorities, and familiarity with major competing perspectives and issues in analyzing Chinese domestic affairs.
  www.georgetown.edu/undergrad/bulletin/148courses.html - September 21, 2004

• Chinese Politics and Government , Brown University
  Begins with an examination of the process of Communist revolution in China. Continues with a structural functional analysis of the Chinese political system with particular emphasis on the party, bureaucracy, army, and mass organizations. Major policies and reforms are closely examined to clarify the unique features of the Chinese model of revolutionary change.
  boca.brown.edu/nontopicsdet.asp?year=2003&term=1&crsCode=PS0129 - August 9, 2004

• Chinese Politics in Comparative Perspective , Columbia University
  The course examines the major issues in the secondary literature, together with identification of problems of, and approaches to, research.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Chinese Politics in the Communist Era , Lampton, David M.
  The cource covers modern Chinese political developments since 1949; principal governing structures and processes characteristics of the Chinese political system since the communist takeover; principle political personalities, elite composition, and political strategies of China's post-1949 political leadership; the governing capacities of the Chinese political system and changes in those capacities over time; changes in character and structure of state-society relations in contemprorary China; and current Chinese public policy.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/chinareadinglists/ChineseCommunismLampton.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Chinese Politics: The Transformation and the Era of Reform , Stanford University
  Professor Jean Oi's course discusses the content, process, and consequences of reform in China from 1976 to the present. Changes in property rights, markets, credit, and the role of the state in economic development are also covered.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/673/ - August 22, 2004

• Communist China. Rise of Communism in Contemporary China , University of Georgia
  Specific topics will include, among others: Marxism and Maoism, the Chinese Civil War, the Great Leap Forward, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and China after Mao.
  uga.edu/cas/courses.html - August 26, 2004

• Comparative Politics and China , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  This graduate seminar has two main goals: to explore the main theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of contemporary Chinese politics; and to relate those approches to broader trends in the field of comparative politics. What has the study of China contributed to the field of comparative politics, and vice versa? What are the most effective ways to integrate area studies, broader comparative approaches, and theory? Seminar presumes a basic understanding of the history and politics of contemporary China.
  student.mit.edu/catalog/m17b.html#17.544 - September 18, 2004

• Contemporary Chinese Politics , University of Pennsylvania
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - September 21, 2004

• Contemporary Chinese Politics , Kansas State University
  Principal components of Communist Chinese ideology, conditions determining organizational structure, composition of present leadership, role of social forces, impact of external relations on other Asian nations and on the major world powers.
  courses.ksu.edu/catalog/undergraduate/as/polsc.html - September 23, 2004

• Crucial Events in Chinese Elite Politics , Harvard University
  "Crucial Events in Chinese Elite Politics" is a critical reexamination of major events in the politics of the People's Republic and of the hitherto accepted Western analyses of them, using the new data made available in the PRC in recent years. The objective is to outline new hypotheses where necessary and more importantly, to explore what need there might be for new ways of studying Chinese politics.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov90ax/ - July 18, 2002

• Dangerous Meditation: China's Campaign Against Falungong , Human Rights Watch
  This article is available for purchase online for $10.00. Quoted from Human Rights Watch: "The Chinese government is using new laws and new interpretations of old laws to crack down on the Falungong, Human Rights Watch says in this report. today. Falungong members have been classified with Tibetan and Uighur 'splittists' and unauthorized religious groups as a major threat to the Communist Party, Human Rights Watch said. This 117-page report, Dangerous Meditation: China's Campaign Against Falungong, analyzes why and how the Chinese government embarked on a plan to eradicate the group it terms an 'evil cult.' In recent documents, the Chinese government has suggested that Falungong is a terrorist organization. The new report traces the evolution of the Chinese government's crackdown, starting with the July 1999 ban on the hierarchically-organized meditation group, which now boasts millions of members worldwide. From the initial ban, the government moved on to prohibit practicing the group's exercises in public, and to confiscate and destroy hundreds of thousands of copies of its publications."
  store.yahoo.com/hrwpubs/danmedchinca.html - February 7, 2002

• Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and its Origins in the Mao Era , Munro, Robin
  Quoted from Human Rights Watch: "The Chinese government should immediately release anyone held in institutions for the mentally ill based on a politically motivated diagnosis, Human Rights Watch and the Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry said in this report. The government should also end the longstanding practice of using psychiatric incarceration for political ends. In the 298-page report, Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and its Origins in the Mao Era, Human Rights Watch and the Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry, a Netherlands-based international foundation, compare the treatment of dissidents in mental asylums to similar abuses in the former Soviet Union. The sentencing of political dissidents to special psychiatric hospitals on the basis of false diagnoses led to the forced withdrawal of the Soviet Union from the WPA in 1983 and it was not readmitted until 1989, after the Gorbachev reforms had brought an end to systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union."
  http://hrw.org/reports/2002/china02/china0802.pdf - August 13, 2002

• Democratization in the Greater China Region , Pei, Minxin
  In this essay, Professor Minxin Pei examines the main findings on the causes and progress of democratization in Greater China. The difference stages in the process of democratization have tremendous implications for relations among China, Taiwan and the United States. The author identifies four areas of political liberalization in Mainland China that are likely to stimulate further democratic reforms: (1) the rapid growth of civic organizations with at least some independence from the state; (2) increased institutional identity and autonomy of the National People's Congress; (3) progress in legal reform; and (4) direct election of village leaders.
  www.nbr.org/publications/review/vol1no2/v1n2.pdf - June 1, 1998

• Demolished: Forced Evictions and the Tenants' Rights Movement in China , Human Rights Watch
  Quoted from Human Rights Watch: "Chinese local authorities and developers are forcibly evicting hundreds of thousands of homeowners and tenants who have little legal recourse. China's rapid urban development, fueled in Beijing by preparations for the 2008 Olympics, is leading to the eviction of homeowners and tenants in violation of Chinese law and international standards on the right to housing. This 45-page report details the problems many Chinese citizens face."
  hrw.org/reports/2004/china0304/china0304.pdf - March 1, 2004

• Department of Public Administration, University of Hong Kong , University of Hong Kong
  Department of Public Administration, University of Hong Kong homepage.
  www.hku.hk/ppaweb/ - August 6, 2004

• Devastating Blows: Religious Repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang , Human Rights Watch
  Quoted from Human Rights Watch: "This 114-page report is based on previously undisclosed Communist Party and government documents, as well as local regulations, official newspaper accounts, and interviews conducted in Xinjiang. It unveils for the first time the complex architecture of law, regulation, and policy in Xinjiang that denies Uighurs religious freedom, and by extension freedom of association, assembly, and expression. Chinese policy and law enforcement stifle religious activity and thought even in school and at home."
  hrw.org/reports/2005/china0405/china0405.pdf - April 1, 2005

• Devastating Blows: Religious Repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang (Summary & Recommendations) , Human Rights Watch
  Summary and recommendations of the English language 114-page report based on previously undisclosed Communist Party and government documents, as well as local regulations, official newspaper accounts, and interviews conducted in Xinjiang. The report unveils for the first time the complex architecture of law, regulation, and policy in Xinjiang that denies Uighurs religious freedom, and by extension freedom of association, assembly, and expression. Chinese policy and law enforcement stifle religious activity and thought even in school and at home. (Chinese)
  hrw.org/chinese/reports/2005/china0405sum&reco.pdf - April 20, 2005

• Ethnic Diversity in China , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/programs/chinese_courses.html - September 18, 2004

• Falkenheim, V , Falkenheim, V
  Mr. Falkenheim's interests include contemporary Chinese politics, with an emphasis on citizen participation and local government.
  www.chass.utoronto.ca/eas/faculty/faculty_undergraduate.html#FALKENHEIM,%20V.C. - October 28, 2004

• Focus on China , Harding, Harry
  "Focus on China" addresses a broad range of issues in U.S.-China relations, including domestic challenges facing China today. Dr. Harry Harding, Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and Trustee of The Asia Foundation, hosted the seminar held in Washington D.C. on March 20, 1997, and offers his reflections on U.S.-China policy, which are included in this publication. \"Focus on China\" also shares individual perspectives from China: Dr. Fan Gang, Director of the National Economic Institute and China Reform Foundation in Beijing, who addressed issues of economic reform; Ms. Zhang Ye, Program Consultant for The Asia Foundation in Beijing, and an expert on the nongovernmental sector in China; and Mr. Allen Choate, The Asia Foundation's Director of Program Development for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, who discussed local governance in China.
  www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/focusonchina.pdf - March 20, 1997

• Foreign Policy of China , Georgia Institute of Technology
  Foreign Policy of China analyzes the major dimensions of the foreign policies of the People's Republic of China and the domestic and international influences shaping those policies.
  oscar.gatech.edu/pls/bprod/bwckctlg.p_display_courses?term_in=200502&one_subj=INTA&sel_crse_strt=3130&sel_crse_end=3130&sel_subj=&sel_levl=&sel_schd=&sel_coll=&sel_divs=&sel_dept=&sel_attr= - August 26, 2004

• Frazier, Mark , Lawrence University
  Mark W. Frazier is an Assistant Professor of Government and the Henry Luce Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of East Asia at Lawrence University. He is the author "The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace: State, Revolution, and Labor Management" (Cambridge University Press, 2002), which explores the origins of China's work unit employment in the industrial sector. He teaches courses on Chinese and East Asian politics, international political economy, and comparative politics. He is a senior advisor and former research director at The National Bureau of Asian Research.
  www.nbr.org/about_NBR/staff/frazier.html - October 25, 2004

• Gallagher, Mary E. , Department of Political Science
  Professor Gallagher studies the government and politics of China, in particular China's current transition from socialism and its opening to foreign direct investment. She studies China in comparative perspective against the earlier development trajectories of Japan, Taiwan, and Korea and against the current transition paths of Eastern Europe and Russia. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the political consequences of China's foreign direct investment policy, in particular how FDI has reshaped relations between urban workers and the Chinese state.
  polisci.lsa.umich.edu/faculty/mgallagher.html - October 29, 2004

• Garver, John , Center for International Strategy, Technology and Policy
  John W. Garver is Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the Asian Outreach Director at the Center for International Strategy, Technology and Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals "China Quarterly," "Journal of Contemporary China," and the "Journal of American-East Asian Relations," and a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations. He is the author of seven books and over sixty articles dealing with China relations.
  cistp.gatech.edu/cistp/people/garver.htm - October 11, 2004

• Going Too Far: Bush's Pledge to Defend Taiwan , Carpenter, Ted Galen
  This foreign policy briefing discusses the implications of the U.S. government's security commitment to Taiwan. The author also address the key factors involved in determining whether the United States can deter conflict between China and Taiwan amidst China\'s growing military capabilities.
  cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb66.pdf - May 30, 2001

• Goldstein, Avery , Center for East Asian Studies
  Avery Goldstein, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also serves as Chair of the Graduate Program and Associate Director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics. In addition he is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, where he was Director of the Asia Program from 1997-2002. Professor Goldstein specializes in international relations, security studies, and Chinese politics. He is the author of several books and articles concerning political and security issues in China. Presently he is conducting research on China's grand strategy in the post-Cold War world.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/bios_goldstein.html - November 5, 2004

• Gov't & Politics-China , Georgia Institute of Technology
  Government and Politics of China investigates the structure and institutions of political power as well as the patterns and features of political change in the contemporary People's Republic of China.
  oscar.gatech.edu - August 26, 2004

• Governing China , Univeristy of Hong Kong
  Note: In order to access the course descriptions, select \"Courses Offered\" from the menu on the left and follow the links to corresponding Undergraduate courses.This course is an introduction to contemporary Chinese politics. The main objective is to understand the ideology, institutions and processes of the contemporary Chinese political system and explore the socio-economic consequences, achievements, and problems of Chinese socialism.
  www.hku.hk/ppaweb/ - January 11, 2005

• Government and Politics of China , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Analyzes contemporary Chinese politics, both pre-Communist and Communist. Focuses on the process of modernization and political development of Chinese civilization. Graduate students are expected to pursue the subject at greater depth through reading and individual research.
  student.mit.edu/catalog/m17b.html#17.547 - September 19, 2004

• Government and Politics of China , Harvard Department of Government
  This course is a general introduction to the politics of contemporary China. Basic objectives are to provide a working knowledge of Chinese political programs and practices, and to encourage a critical evaluation of the positive and negative aspects of China's socialist experiment.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov1280/ - July 20, 2002

• Government and Politics of China: China in Age of Reform , University of California, Los Angeles
  Survey of China's political and ideological transformation in post-Mao era. Assessment of impact of changing socioeconomic conditions on revolutionary policies and programs of Chinese Communist Party. Exploration of etiology of 1989 Tiananmen crisis and consequences for China of collapse of Communism in East Europe and the Soviet Union.
  www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/catalog.asp?sa=POL+SCI&funsel=3 - August 6, 2004

• Government and Politics of China: Chinese Revolution and Age of Mao Zedong , University of California, Los Angeles
  To examine the move from Soviet authoritarianism toward Russian democracy and the question of backsliding. Lectures open with a discussion of the Soviet order and its breakdown under the Gorbachev leadership, 1985-1991. The bulk of the lectures will concern the emergence of Russian political institutions and the political contest during the presidencies of Boris Yeltsin, 1991-1999, and Vladimir Putin, 2000 to the present.
  www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/catalog.asp?sa=POL+SCI&funsel=3 - August 6, 2004

• Graduate Seminar: Approaches to Chinese Politics , Stanford University
  This seminar, taught by Professor Jean Oi, provides bibliographic control of the major secondary literature on Chinese politics, organized around theoretical concepts and issues found in studies of the Chinese political system.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/678/ - August 22, 2004

• Grassroots China: The Social Consequences of Development , Thurston, Anne F.
  The course examines how the dramatic changes that have taken place in China since 1976 have affected ordinary Chinese people.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/chinareadinglists/GrassrootsChinaThurston.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Gvrnt & Polit in Cntmpry China , University of Pittsburgh
  This course is an introduction to contemporary China. Topics include historical background, political system and participation, bureaucracy, economic structure and performance, social reaction to market reform, income distribution, education and mobility, health care and welfare policy, industrial relations, ethnic relations, the environment, family and marriage, position of women, intellectuals and dissidents, trends in popular culture, and so on. For each topic, China will be compared with other countries. The purpose of this course is to improve the student's analytical skills in understanding contemporary China.
  www.pitt.edu/~caswww/cdesc/ds043051/ps.htm#1332 - January 16, 2004

• Harwit, Eric , Center for Chinese Studies
  Dr. Harwit is an Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii. Professor Harwit's recent work has focused on the politics of industrial development in China. He is currently writing a book about telecommunications regulation in the PRC, a project that examines the political and social impact of the Internet as well as the spread of telecommunications to both urban and rural parts of the country. His teaching includes courses on comparative Asian development, and a new project looks at China's political and economic relations with Central Asia.
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/community/faculty/harwit_eric.html - November 8, 2004

• History of China in Modern Times , Cornell University
  A survey that concentrates on the rise of the last imperial dynasty in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the upheavals resulting from domestic rebellions and foreign imperialism in the nineteenth century, and the twentieth-century efforts to achieve social mobilization, political unity, and commercial expansion.
  cuinfo.cornell.edu/Academic/Courses/CoSdetail.phtml?college=AS&number=294&prefix=HIST&title=History+of+China+in+Modern+Times+%28also+ASIAN+294%29+%40+%28III%29+%28HA%29 - September 27, 2004

• History of Modern Chinese Foreign Relations , University of Toronto
  The history of Chinese foreign relations from 1842 to the present day, with emphasis on the foreign relations of the People\'s Republic since 1949. Topics include: imperialism in China, Sino-Soviet relations; the Deng era rapprochement with the West; contemporary issues such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, regional security.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_his.htm - January 17, 2005

• Hong Kong Politics , Lam, Wai-man
  Note: In order to access the course descriptions, select "Courses Offered" from the menu on the left and follow the links to corresponding Undergraduate courses. Hong Kong's interactions with the outside world are critical to its role as a major international city and will shape its ability to position itself as the leading gateway to the mainland of China. While Hong Kong's 'foreign affairs portfolio' is controlled by China, Hong Kong retains considerable autonomy in shaping its international destiny. What global course should Hong Kong leaders chart? This class will examine the Special Administrative Region's unique international status and its complex identity as a Chinese world city. Moreover, it intends to explore the multi-dimensional external linkages between Hong Kong and the world within the context of globalization. Prominent members of the Hong Kong community will be invited to share their perspectives on Hong Kong's track record in facing the challenges and opportunities associated with today's highly interdependent global system. By exploring these themes with reference to the changing nature of the global system, the course hopes to provide students with in-depth knowledge of Hong Kong's international links and enhance their understanding of the complex problems of global governance.
  www.hku.hk/ppaweb/ - August 6, 2004

• How's Hu Doing? , Miller, H. Lyman
  In this article, H. Lyman Miller, a research fellow at theÊHoover Institution, assesses the performance of Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao in the first first few months after taking over the reins of China\'s leadership from Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji. Miller discusses their domestic policy in terms of social and economic reforms, as well as Hu and Wen\'s response to SARS and foreign policy regarding the U.S. in Kosovo and Iraq, multi-lateral talks with North Korea, and also the Taiwan issue. Miller concludes with a report card that indicates that while Hu Jintao\'s China will never display democracy by U.S. standards, it will surely aim to be more open and liberal than the China of his predecessor.
  www.hooverdigest.org/041/miller.html - April 25, 2005

• Human Rights and Cultural Values: The Political Philosophies of the Dalai Lama and the People's Republic of China , Powers, C. John
  In this article, the author explores the universal definition of human rights versus how this is interpreted by a country such as the People\'s Republic of China, one of the world\'s most renowned human rights abusers. The article also delves in Western assumptions about Chinese culture as well as the Chinese government\'s current attitude towards issues involving human rights.
  www.pacificrim.usfca.edu/research/pacrimreport/pacrimreport2.html - June 1, 1997

• In Whose Interest?: "State Security" in China's New Criminal Code , Human Rights Watch
  Quoted from Human Rights Watch: "The National People's Congress took the historic step at its annual session in March of eliminating crimes of 'counterrevolution' from the criminal code, a step that at first glance seemed to indicate movement toward greater respect for the rule of law. But in fact, China merely replaced the term with the equally elastic notion of 'endangering state security' and actually broadened the capacity of the state to suppress dissent. This report is a detailed analysis of the provisions of China's new law relating to national security concerns, pointing out the changes and additions in the revisions as compared with the 1979 version; gives a brief overview of two other key security laws, the State Security Law and the State Secrets Law, which further elucidate the notion of 'endangering state security'; assesses the past use of the crime of 'counterrevolution' and points out how the changes in the law are affecting how the state treats dissent. The report also contains several appendices comprising the full texts of some of the laws mentioned in the report and a list of individuals sentenced in the last two years to prison or reeducation through labor for political 'crimes.'
  www.hrw.org/reports/1997/china5/ - April 1, 1997

• India-China Relations: Issues, Trends and Emerging Scenarios , Jain, B.M.
  This paper examines some vitally important issues and trends in India-China relations, from the early 1950s to the present. It critically surveys how their \"flowering\" in the early 1950s, based on peaceful co-existence, was suddenly transformed into mutual hostility following the 1962 border war and then explains the new phase of improvement in their ties since Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s visit to China in 1988. This paper argues that despite divergences in the perception and approaches of New Delhi and Beijing on issues such as Sino-Pakistan military and strategic ties and India’s Tibet policy, both countries have enormous potential and opportunities to expand and deepen their economic ties in their mutual interests. Finally, this paper discusses the emerging scenarios of India-China relations and examines how these two countries can cooperate to establish a better global political and economic order by addressing the problems of developing countries on the issues of poverty, sustainable development and human rights, including alternative mechanisms to counter the current trend towards unilateralism in the international system.
  www.hku.hk/cas/pub/Occasional1_bmjain.pdf - November 11, 2004

• Intro To Chinese Politics , Womack, Brantly
  General introduction to Chinese politics in its societal context. Conveys a concrete appreciation of China's societal reality and how it interacts with the political system. Covers China's changing role in Asia and the world.
  etg08.itc.virginia.edu/cod.pages/20043/ASF/POLT.html - August 26, 2004

• Introduction to Chinese Politics , Twomey, Christoper P.
  The course treats the politics of the People's Republic of China. It focuses on the top-level leadership, the policy-making process, state-society relations, the role of the state in the economy, and political institutions.
  www2.bc.edu/%7Etwomeych/courses/ChinaPol/chinapolsyllabus.pdf - September 21, 2004

• Japan and the Engagement of China: Challenges for U.S. Policy Coordination , Armacost, Michael H. and Pyle, Kenneth B.
  Dr. Armacost and Dr. Pyle show that U.S. policy in East Asia has sought to prevent the domination in the region by any one power, to keep the region open to American trade and investment, and to seek the spread of democratic government in order to ensure peace and stability in the region. With the rise of China and uncertainty about its national purpose, the U.S. role in the region is in question. Japan, highly dependent on the United States for security, wants U.S. help in containing China, but, at the same time, Japanese criticism of U.S. military presence and "hegemonic intentions" in the region is increasingly vocal. Concerns about China's intentions toward Taiwan and the uncertainty surrounding reunification of the Korean Peninsula continue to justify a U.S. military presence, but economic and political engagement must also be pursued. In light of these challenges, the Bush administration seems poised to pursue new approaches in East Asia.
  www.nbr.org/publications/analysis/vol12no5/12.5.pdf - December 1, 2001

• Jing, Quan , Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
  Quan Jing is a Visiting Fellow at Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies of the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. His expertise is in the area of U.S.-China Relations and Taiwan.
  www.brookings.edu/scholars/fellows/qjing.htm - October 18, 2004

• Kwok, Reginald Yin-Wang , Center for Chinese Studies
  Dr. Kwok is Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of Urban & Regional Planning at the University of Hawai'i. He is a visiting professor of Tsinghua University, Tongji University, Zhongshan University and Wuhan Academy of Urban Construction. His areas of teaching and research include the political economy of Chinese development and urbanization, globalization of East Asian development, urban economic and spatial planning, and cultural impact on urban design. Kwok is currently studying the developmental effects of Hong Kong—China re-unification, the evolution of the Chiense urban land market, Taipei's global development and the global link in the South China Triangle (Hong Kong, Taiwan and China).
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/community/faculty/kwok_reginald.html - November 8, 2004

• Leadership Policy toward Taiwan and the United States in the Wake of Chen Shui-bian's Reelection , Suettinger, Robert L.
  It is hardly surprising that the People\'s Republic of China (PRC) reacted negatively to the reelection of Chen Shui-bian as president of the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan. Leading up to the March 20, 2004, election, Beijing adopted a careful, low-key approach, in contrast to its missile launches in 1996 and its shrill threats in 2000. But there was little doubt that it hoped Chen would be defeated by the pan-blue coalition of the Kuomintang (KMT) and People First Party (PFP). In the run-up to Chen\'s victory, Beijing had once again failed to influence events in Taiwan. Still, the narrow margin of victory, the recount, the court challenge, and hopes that Chen might adopt an accommodating stance on cross-Strait relations in his May 20 inauguration speech all apparently combined to stay Beijing\'s hand. Now that Chen\'s speech has been delivered, assessed, and found wanting, however, high-level officials, media commentators, and \"track two\" scholars are pressing a harsher, more confrontational line. The revised approach will have consequences both for China\'s relations with the United States and perhaps on the domestic front as well.
  www.chinaleadershipmonitor.org/20043/rs.pdf - July 1, 2004

• Lee, Ching Kwan , Center for Chinese Studies
  Professor Lee completed her doctorate in Sociology at UC Berkeley in 1994 and joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 2000. She specializes in labor politics in the course of reform; how the nature of China's economic, political, and social institutional arrnagements have shaped protest; and issues of gender and collective action in Hong Kong.
  141.211.136.209/ccs/FacultyListDetail.asp?ID=22 - October 29, 2004

• Li, Cheng , Hamilton College
  In 1985, he came to the United States where he later received an M.A. in Asian Studies at U.C.-Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Political Science at Princeton. He was a residential fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC in 2002-2003.� He is currently a trustee of the Institute of Current World Affairs in Hanover, New Hampshire, and a member of of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Dr. Li is the author of "China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Reform"(1997) and China's Leaders: The New Generation" (2001). He is the editor of the forthcoming book, "Bridging Minds across the Pacific: The Sino-U.S. Educational Exchange 1978-2003\"(2005). Dr. Li is currently working on two book manuscripts: "Chinese Technocrats and Urban Subcultures in Shanghai."
  academics.hamilton.edu/government/cli/cl.html - November 4, 2004

• Lieberthal, Kenneth G. , Center for Chinese Studies
  Professor Lieberthal completed his doctorate in Political Science at Columbia University in 1972 and joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1983. He specializes in Chinese domestic politics; Chinese foreign policy; political economy of China and doing business with China. He holds a joint position with the Department of Political Science and the UM Business School.
  141.211.136.209/ccs/FacultyListDetail.asp?ID=24 - October 29, 2004

• Liu, Shyh-Fang , Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
  Shyh-Fang Liu is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies of the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. Her expertise is in the areas of China-Taiwan Cross-Strait relations and Taiwan's political parties.
  www.brookings.edu/scholars/fellows/sliu.htm - October 18, 2004

• Local factions and the Kuomintang in Taiwan's electoral politics , Wu, Chung-li
  This item requires a subscription to International Relations of the Asia-Pacific Online. Local factions in Taiwan exert considerable influence over elections, facilitating their role as intermediaries in both the candidate selection process and grassroots voter mobilization. This study examines the tangled relationship between the Kuomintang (KMT) and local factions in the electoral process. For decades, the KMT used patronage to ally itself with local factions to maintain its dominance in elections and to legitimize its governing base. Its monopoly over economic privilege permitted the authoritarian KMT regime to construct electoral alliances with local factions by sharing political power and material benefits with them in exchange for their KMT allegiance. Although factional allegiances serve the interests of the KMT, its alliance bonds are far from permanent. Change in electoral politics, then, is one of the best vantage points from which to observe the transformed relationship between the KMT and local factions. Furthermore, due to its flourishing economic relationship with mainland China since the late 1980s, the Taiwan government has come under pressure from local factions to adopt more liberal trade policies toward China. This research concludes that factionalism should remain an important component in Taiwan's political and economic arenas for the foreseeable future.
  irap.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/3/1/89 - February 1, 2004

• Local Governance in China, Part II: An Assessment of Urban Residents Committees and Municipal Community Development , Choate, Allen C.
  Part II of Local Governance in China describes the evolution and role of Residents Committees in contemporary China, and places Residents Committees in their contemporary urban environment, especially with respect to their relations with formal municipal government. This paper addresses municipal community development and urban social services, and the role of the Residents Committees in the management and delivery of those services. The paper concludes with an analysis of the problems and prospects for both Residents Committees specifically, and municipal social service organization and community development more generally.
  www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/wp10.pdf - November 1, 1998

• Local Governance in China: An Assessment of Villagers Committees , Choate, Allen C.
  For the past eight years, residents of China's approximately one million villages have been franchised under the experimental Organic Law on Villagers Committees, passed by the National People's Congress in late 1987. Under the law, villagers directly elect committees to serve three-year terms and administer the village\'s affairs. Today, there are roughly 930,000 Villagers Committees. This development of local governance in China, and particularly the phenomenon of direct, competitive elections for Villagers Committee seats, increasingly has attracted the attention of the international community. This paper explores the validity, implications, motives, and possible outcomes of this movement in China.
  www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/wp1.pdf - February 1, 1997

• Locked Doors: The Human Rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China , Human Rights Watch
  Quoted from Human Rights Watch: "Widespread discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS is fueling the spread of the epidemic in China. This 94-page report is based on more than 30 interviews with people with HIV/AIDS, police officers, drug users, and AIDS outreach workers in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Yunnan province. Many people living with HIV/AIDS have no access to health care because hospitals refuse to treat them. Human Rights Watch found that at one hospital, the door to the AIDS clinic was actually padlocked. National laws discriminate against people with HIV/AIDS, and some local laws ban them from using swimming pools or working in food service. The police send drug users to detoxification centers, where they are forced to labor without pay to make trinkets for tourists. Instead of receiving help for their problem, they are driven underground, making it harder for the government to combat the AIDS virus."
  www.hrw.org/reports/2003/china0803/china0903short.pdf - August 1, 2003

• Locked Doors: The Human Rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China (Chinese) , Human Rights Watch
  This is the Chinese translation of the summary, testimonies, and recommendations of the English-language 94-page report. The report is based on more than 30 interviews with people with HIV/AIDS, police officers, drug users, and AIDS outreach workers in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Yunnan province. Widespread discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS is fueling the spread of the epidemic in China. Many people living with HIV/AIDS have no access to health care because hospitals refuse to treat them. Human Rights Watch found that at one hospital, the door to the AIDS clinic was actually padlocked. National laws discriminate against people with HIV/AIDS, and some local laws ban them from using swimming pools or working in food service. The police send drug users to detoxification centers, where they are forced to labor without pay to make trinkets for tourists. Instead of receiving help for their problem, they are driven underground, making it harder for the government to combat the AIDS virus.
  www.hrw.org/reports/2003/china0803/china0903-cn.pdf - August 1, 2003

• Manion, Melanie , Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs
  Melanie Manion is Associate Director of the La Follette School, and Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs. Her research examines issues of good governance, institutional design, and political representation. Her empirical work focuses on contemporary China. She is studying the coordination of local elections, legislative authority to appoint leaders, and communist party control of appointments in mainland China. In 2002, she was an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at Georgetown University Law Center. She is an award-winning teacher. She received her doctorate in Political Science from the University of Michigan.
  www.lafollette.wisc.edu/facultystaff/manion-melanie.html - November 1, 2004

• Mann, James , Center for Strategic and International Studies
  James Mann is an expert in Sino-American relations, Chinese politics, Taiwan, American policy towards Asia, American Foreign Policy, Media and Foreign Policy, and Human rights. James Mann, senior writer-in-residence in the CSIS International Security Program, is the author of two books: "Beijing Jeep" (Simon & Schuster, 1989) and "About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship With China From Nixon to Clinton" (Knopf, 1999). Before joining CSIS, he was a diplomatic correspondent and the foreign affairs columnist for the "Los Angeles Times". He joined the "Times" as its Supreme Court correspondent in 1978 and served from 1984 to 1987 as chief of its Beijing bureau. Since that time, he has covered all aspects of U.S.-China relations and U.S. policy toward Asia.
  www.csis.org/experts/4mann.htm - October 21, 2004

• Mass Approach Political Development: China. , Noumoff, S. J.
  The Seminar will be devoted to a thorough analysis of the various development strategies adopted by the Chinese Communist Party during the periods prior, and subsequent, to the success of the 1949 Revolution. While each of these strategies lays claim to the legacy of Marx, the interpretation and operationalization of that legacy vastly differs.
  upload.mcgill.ca/politicalscience/course03_poli649.pdf - August 5, 2004

• McGiffert, Carola , Center for Strategic and International Studies
  Carola McGiffert is an expert in Northeast Asian security, U.S-China relations, cross-Strait relations, international trade and economics. Carola McGiffert helps manage Asia projects for the CSIS International Security Program, with a focus on Northeast Asian security issues. Prior to joining CSIS, she was the senior policy adviser to the New Democrat Network, where she worked with congressional Democrats in support of Permanent Normal Trade Relations for China and China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
  www.csis.org/experts/4mcgiffert.htm - October 21, 2004

• Media Control in China , Human Rights In China (HRIC)
  http://www.hrichina.org/fs/downloadables/pdf/downloadable-resources/MediaControlALL.pdf?revision_id=20206 - August 14, 2003

• Nipped in the Bud: The Suppression of the China Democracy Party , Human Rights Watch
  In this thirty-five page report, Human Rights Watch called on China\'s President Jiang Zemin to release more than thirty people imprisoned for their role in the China Democracy Party and all others who have been detained in China for peaceful political activities. The Chinese President will be in the U.S. on September 7 to meet world leaders at the opening of the U.N. General Assembly.
  www.hrw.org/reports/2000/china/ - September 1, 2000

• Overcoming Uncertainty: U.S.-China Strategic Relations in the 21st Century , Anderson, Walter Neal
  This paper offers a range of policy steps that should be taken to overcome mutual uncertainty and advance responsibly U.S.-China relations. It does so in view of changes in the global strategic environment and an assessment of China's future. The full range of vital and important bilateral security issues are explored, including both sides' goals, interests, and strategic perspectives regarding these issues. Ultimately, this paper is intended to provide a framework for a balanced debate on China policy that would contribute to improved stability and predictability in U.S.-China relations.
  www.usafa.af.mil/inss/OCP/ocp29.pdf - October 1, 1999

• Paying the Price: Worker Unrest in Northeast China , Human Rights Watch
  Quoted from Human Rights Watch: "The Chinese government's refusal to allow independent trade unions is fueling worker protests, Human Rights Watch said in this new report.The 50-page report, "Paying the Price: Worker Unrest in Northeast China," analyzes in detail the demonstrations that took place from March through May 2002 in three cities in northeastern China, and the government response to them. The unprecedented demonstrations lasted longer than any since the 1989 pro-democracy movement. In Liaoyang, metal workers laid off from former state-owned enterprises took to the streets intermittently over a ten-week period. In Daqing, laid-off oil workers encountered a massive show of force and security forces detained at least sixty workers for periods ranging between twenty-four hours and two weeks. In Fushun, thousands of laid-off miners and workers from nearby factories blocked roads and rail lines until they were given limited payouts. Four key protest leaders in Liaoyang city were indicted on March 30, 2002 after leading a four-year effort to bring workers' complaints to the attention of local authorities. They may be put on trial at any time. Yao Fuxin, Pang Qingxiang, Xiao Yunliang and Wang Zhaoming are charged with 'illegal assembly, marches and protests' and could face five-year prison terms. The four men have been held for almost five months with little, if any, access to family and with no legal representation. Across China, state-owned enterprises that once promised workers lifetime employment and a secure retirement have downsized or closed."
  www.hrw.org/reports/2002/chinalbr02/chinalbr0802.pdf - August 1, 2002

• Pei, Minxin , Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  Minxin Pei is a senior associate and director of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 1991 and was an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University from 1992 to 1998. His main interests are U.S.-China relations, the development of democratic political systems, the politics of economic reform, the growth of civil society, and legal institutions.
  www.carnegieendowment.org/experts/index.cfm?fa=expert_view&expert_id=27 - October 21, 2004

• Political and Economic Geography of China , University of Victoria
  This course consists of two parts. Part One examines the impacts of Western colonization on the economy of China, the search for new political and economic forms, and the structure of the Communist government. Part Two focuses on the economic policies and development of China after 1949, and a geographical study of selected administrative or economic regions.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2004/CDs/PACI/483.html - August 6, 2004

• Political Economy of Reform in China , Stanford University
  This course covers changes in property rights, markets, credit, and the role of the state in economic development. Comparative rights about reform in the Chinese communist system that distinguishes it from the experience of regimes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Readings in Chinese and English. Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of the government and politics of post-1949 China.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/759/ - August 22, 2004

• Political Leadership in Greater China , Lampton David M.
  The cource examines political change, national integration, and development in China after World War II through the lives of come of the personalities who have most shaped that history. The cource alsoÊanalyzes political leadership in China over time and comparatively.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/chinareadinglists/LeadersofGreaterChinaLampton.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Political Science and China , Harvard University
  This graduate seminar gives students control over the secondary literature on Chinese politics, with special attention to competing theoretical and methodological approaches.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov2285/ - July 20, 2002

• Politics and Development: China , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Note: In order to access the course description, select the course from the list. This course is designed to reacquaint those who have done previous work in the China field with some essential readings on history, politics, economy, and sociology of the People's Republic of China. It also familiarizes the student with some of the current literature on China as a way of enhancing understanding of the critical domestic issues facing contemporary China. This course will be organized chronologically in order to provide a historical perspective. The emphasis will be on key issues of politics and development after the Cultural Revolution. Theoretical topics on the political economy on development including state and society, socialist system, economic/social dualism, and agriculture industry transfer are introduced as the basis for discussion. A review of political evolution covers the Chinese revolution, early plans, Great Leap Forward, reconstruction, Cultural Revolution, economic reform, Tiananmen, and open door. Current issues on market transition include social transformation, provincial governance, Diaspora and reunification, and globalization of politics. These topics are relevant not only to political economy, but also to the social sciences in general. Such an approach, apart from being pertinent to the study of Chinese politics and development, allows comparisons with experiences and policies in other developing countries. Requirements: This is a course mainly for reading and class discussion. Each student's work will be partially judged on student participation. Course grades will be based on: (1) class presentation, (2) a research paper.
  www.hawaii.edu/shaps/asia/courses_next_sem.html - January 13, 2005

• Politics and Society in Contemporary China , University of Toronto
  Course listing of the Political Science department of the University of Toronto. This course (2416H) entails a selective examination of issues and themes in China's modernization effort with particular emphasis on 20th century social, political and economic developments. Special attention will be given to the Deng Xiaoping Reforms of the post Mao period.
  www.chass.utoronto.ca/polsci/information/graduate/course_descriptions/developing_countries_description.htm - August 5, 2004

• Politics and Society in Contemprorary China , University of Toronto
  Issues and themes in China\'s modernization effort with emphasis on 20th century social, political and economic developments.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_pol.htm - January 17, 2005

• Politics in China , Hamilton College
  Decline of Confucian China and problems of recreating political order. Topics include rise of the Communist Party, political organization and policy in the People's Republic, role of ideology, foreign relations, the politics of modernization and China's increasing integration into the world economy.
  www.hamilton.edu/academics/courses.html?dept=Government - August 19, 2004

• Politics in China , Hamilton College
  Decline of Confucian China and problems of recreating political order. Topics include rise of the Communist Party, political organization and policy in the People's Republic, role of ideology, foreign relations, the politics of modernization and China's increasing integration into the world economy.
  www.hamilton.edu/applications/catalogue/catalogue_search.cfm?action=CourseDisplay&ID=1292 - August 26, 2004

• Politics of China , University of Alberta
  No course description at this site.
  www.arts.ualberta.ca/~eastasia/course_offerings.htm - September 22, 2004

• Politics of China , Cornell University
  This course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the main issues in Chinese politics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The first sessions of the class focus on the rise of the Chinese revolution, the tenants of Mao Zedong thought, and the main political campaigns of the Mao period. Next, the course focuses on the Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin eras and the complex problems associated with "opening" China. Some of these problems include reforming the economy incrementally while furthering economic growth; rectifying the fallout of political extremism and expanding individual choice while keeping society stable and affirming collective interests; and allowing more input into policy processes while maintaining party dominance. Students examine the succession of a new generation of leaders to power, a fourth generation, and the possibility of continuing economic and political reforms. We also make comparisons between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. Throughout the course, we explore several themes including the meaning of citizenship in a one-party-dominated state, national integration, state power and regime adaptation, social control, channels of democratization, and the political challenge of social issues.
  cuinfo.cornell.edu/Academic/Courses/CoSdetail.phtml?college=AS&number=347&prefix=GOVT&title=Politics+of+China+%40+%28III%29+%28HA%29 - August 19, 2004

• Politics of China , Guo, Gang
  This course is an introduction to the politics of China, with an emphasis on the mainland in the post-Mao reform era. It includes important topics in the Chinese political history, political ideology, political institutions, political processes, as well as some key issues in contemporary Chinese politics.
  olemiss.edu/courses/pol324/ - August 26, 2004

• Politics of China , Cornell University
  This course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the main issues in Chinese politics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The first sessions of the class focus on the rise of the Chinese revolution, the tenants of Mao Zedong thought, and the main political campaigns of the Mao period. Next, the course focuses on the Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin eras and the complex problems associated with "opening" China. Some of these problems include reforming the economy incrementally while furthering economic growth; rectifying the fallout of political extremism and expanding individual choice while keeping society stable and affirming collective interests; and allowing more input into policy processes while maintaining party dominance. Students examine the succession of a new generation of leaders to power, a fourth generation, and the possibility of continuing economic and political reforms. We also make comparisons between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. Throughout the course, we explore several themes including the meaning of citizenship in a one-party-dominated state, national integration, state power and regime adaptation, social control, channels of democratization, and the political challenge of social issues.
  cuinfo.cornell.edu/Academic/Courses/CoSdetail.phtml?college=AS&number=347&prefix=GOVT&title=Politics+of+China+%40+%28III%29+%28HA%29 - August 26, 2004

• Politics of China I , George Washington University
  Readings and discussion of the political dynamics and policy process in contemporary China.
  www.gwu.edu/~eastasia/courses/grd_desc.htm - August 12, 2004

• Politics of China II , George Washington University
  Research seminar on selected topics in Chinese politics, using official and other primary souces.
  www.gwu.edu/~eastasia/courses/grd_desc.htm - August 12, 2004

• Politics, Society & Development in China , Shi, Tianjian
  This course examines selected aspects of Chinese politics. It includes the following topic: East Asian Development State Model: What is the developmental State model about? Can we attribute the recent economic development in China to this model? If yes, what shaped the choice of Chinese leaders in choosing this model? And finally, the problems associated with this development model.
  www.aas.duke.edu/reg/synopsis/view.cgi?s=01&action=display&subj=POLSCI&course=257S&sem=1040 - September 22, 2004

• Politics, Socty & Dev in China , Duke University
  This course examines selected aspects of Chinese politics. It includes the following topic: East Asian Development State Model: What is the developmental State model about? Can we attribute the recent economic development in China to this model? If yes, what shaped the choice of Chinese leaders in choosing this model? And finally, the problems associated with this development model. What kind of State Do Chinese Want? The Strong State in China's Intellectual Tradition: What function does State in China play in the reform Era? Should we describe state in China as weak state or strong state? What are the relationship between state strengthen and regime type? Governance in the Reform China: What are impacts of economic reform on the governing capability of China? Do we want to reduce or strengthen the governing capability of Chinese government. Ruling Elites and Policy Making Capacities: the impacts of the reform on the decision making capacities of the elites in China. Controlling Agents of State and Legitimation of the Regime. The problem associated with the capability of the regime to control its agents to prevent them from becoming predators. Center-Local Relations: How the reform in China altered the central-local relationship in China. What are the implication of such change on Chinese politics. Democratic Transition theory and the implication of reform in China on the political change in Chinese society.
  www.aas.duke.edu/reg/synopsis/view.cgi?s=01&action=display&subj=POLSCI&course=257S&sem=1040 - August 22, 2004

• Potter, Pitman B. , Institute of Asian Research
  Pitman B. Potter is Director of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. He is also Professor of Law and Director of Chinese Legal Studies at UBC's Faculty of Law. Dr. Potter's teaching and research are focused on PRC and Taiwan law and policy in the areas of foreign trade and investment, dispute resolution, intellectual property, contracts, business regulation, and human rights.
  www.iar.ubc.ca/introduction/pbpotter.html - October 22, 2004

• President Bush's Muddled Policy on Taiwan , Carpenter, Ted Galen
  This foreign policy brief discusses U.S. policy on Taiwan under the Bush administration which has gone from one extreme to the other. The author analyzes President Bush\'s earlier pro-Taiwan policy versus the latest pro-Beijing posture and how these policies may or may not serve in the best interests of the United States.
  cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb82.pdf - March 15, 2004

• Pressures for Expanding Local-Level Democracy , Fewsmith, Joseph
  The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has faced numerous pressures in recent years to reform its governing practices, particularly at the local level where these practices directly affect the lives of citizens. Despite years of campaigning against it, corruption continues to get worse at local levels, where abuse of power by officials has inflamed relations with the citizenry, and where there seems to be a palpable need to enhance the legitimacy of local officials. Village-level elections were introduced in China in the late 1980s to respond to these needs, but they also created new problems. Local party secretaries clashed regularly with village heads, and township cadres resented newly assertive village leaders. Moreover, the electoral process stalled as efforts to promote it at the township level met resistance. In recent months, however, there have been new and expanded experiments with local democracy that enhance the importance of local people\'s congresses, open up the electoral process, and use elections for the selection of local cadres. Importantly, these experiments are not limited to the village level, but are taking place at the township and sometimes county levels. These innovations may not augur looming democratization, but they do reflect a response to increased pressures to cope with the problems of local governance.
  www.chinaleadershipmonitor.org/20044/jf.pdf - September 1, 2004

• Reed, Gay Garland , Center for Chinese Studies
  Dr. Reed is Associate Professor at the College of Education of University of Hawai'i. Professor Reed taught at Nanjing University in 1987–88 and returned to China in 1990 to do dissertation research on Chinese moral and political education. Her dissertation focused on the communist role model Lei Feng and her China-related research interests include Confucianism, Chinese education, changing values in the PRC, Chinese communist ethics, minorities in China, Chinese Americans, and calligraphy.
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/community/faculty/reed_gay.html - November 8, 2004

• Republic of China on Taiwan , Sutter
  The cource offered by the Depatment of International Affairs.
  www.georgetown.edu/undergrad/bulletin/148courses.html - September 21, 2004

• Research Seminar on Chinese Politics , Harvard University
  This course focuses on primary sources for the study of Chinese politics: archives, documents, gazetteers, yearbooks, interviews, etc. Students write a major research paper, using primary sources.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov2286/ - July 30, 2003

• Seminar in Chinese Politics , University of Southern California
  Guided research and discussion on the governmental process in the People's Republic of China including leadership, ideology, and popular participation.
  www.usc.edu/dept/publications/cat2003/las/LAS_POSC/coi.html - September 21, 2004

• Seminar in East Asian Studies B: The Manchurian Crisis 1931-1933 , The Australian National University
  Japan's economic and military expansion into Manchuria, which paved the way for the establishment of Manchukuo under Japanese oversight, touched off a major international crisis that involved, besides Japan, China, Korea, Russia and the Western member nations of the League of Nations. In the course of this crisis, Japan, already frustrated by its experiences in the London and Washington naval conferences of the League in the 1920s, withdrew from the League. The crisis abated by 1933, but was followed by a series of events that drew Japan into war with China in 1937 and the Allied Powers in 1941. In seeking an explanation for the crisis, students will be made familiar with a number of primary sources. The weekly two-hour sessions will be based on set readings and will consist of discussion on the assigned topic led by a designated student, followed by comments by the instructor and further consideration of the central issues. Each student can expect to lead two sessions during the semester. Assessment will be based on one 2000-word bibliographical essay, three 3-page reports, and a final term paper of some 20 double-spaced pages. The bibliographical essay covers the primary literature relating to a topic of students' choosing and involves an evaluative discussion of when, by whom, and for whom the primary materials were written. The reports consist of analytical summaries of the central issues of three of the topics in the syllabus, selected by the students. The final paper is a research paper in which students should forward their own theses and findings, and should be based as far as possible on use of the primary sources. Where available, these primary sources (which are in English) will be placed on reserve; materials in Japanese, Korean or Chinese languages should be identified and acquired from the library, after consultation with the instructor.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_EAST8018.asp - January 12, 2005

• Seo, Jungmin , Center for Chinese Studies
  Dr. Seo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i. Professor Seo's major research interests are East Asian politics, nationalism and the political economy of culture. He is currently working on two China-related projects: 1. the concept of democracy during the Tiananmen Democratic Movement in 1989; 2. the role of cultural industry in shaping 'East Asian identity.'
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/community/faculty/seo_jungmin.html - November 8, 2004

• Sino-US Relations in an Era of Rising Chinese Power , Harvard University
  Assesses theoretical arguments and empirical evidence concerning the implications of Chinese economic and military modernization for conflict and cooperation between China and the US. Some issues examined include global arms control, trade, the environment, and regional security.
  www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/Courses/Government.html - August 24, 2004

• Social Issues in Contemporary China , Emily Hannum
  China's transition to a market-oriented society has effected fundamental changes in the lives of citizens. As a discipline centrally interested in issues of inequality, sociology offers a unique perspective on these changes through its focus on the distribution of social welfare goods, such as wealth, health and education. This class will consider pressing social concerns that China must struggle to address as it continues down the path of market reforms. Using topical problems to illustrate broader issues of participation in the new economy, we will consider questions such as the following: How are women and men faring differently in China's new labor market and workplaces? Are rural peasants and the emerging underclass of urban laid-off workers being left behind by market transition?  
  www.ssc.upenn.edu/soc/Syllabi/fall2004/soci280_401_fall2004.pdf - January 6, 2005

• Social Structure and Social Change in China , University of Victoria
  This course attempts to provide interpretations for the "development of underdevelopment" of China: the various structural, cultural as well as external barriers obstructing China's various attempts to modernize and industrialize in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It also examines the counterculture of China in the form of secret societies and peasant movements which paved the way for the triumph of Mao in 1949.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2004/CDs/PACI/319A.html - August 6, 2004

• Society and Politics in China , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site.
  chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/programs/chinese_courses.html - September 18, 2004

• Stanford Sophomore College Seminar: Democracy and Markets: What Do Elections Mean in China's Villages? , Stanford University
  The same communist regime in China that cracked down on protesting student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in spring 1989 is now promoting competitive elections in its villages. These elections have received significant coverage in the Western press. Westerners have been invited to observe these elections, and academics and journalists alike have analyzed them extensively. Taught by Professor Jean Oi, this special sophomore seminar explores some of the following questions: What do these elections mean? How much power do they confer to those elected? Why is the regime promoting this policy?
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/677/ - September 21, 2004

• Stanford Sophomore College Seminar: Democracy and Markets: What Do Elections Mean in China's Villages? , Stanford University
  The same communist regime in China that cracked down on protesting student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in spring 1989 is now promoting competitive elections in its villages. These elections have received significant coverage in the Western press. Westerners have been invited to observe these elections, and academics and journalists alike have analyzed them extensively. Taught by Professor Jean Oi, this special sophomore seminar explores some of the following questions: What do these elections mean? How much power do they confer to those elected? Why is the regime promoting this policy?
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/677/ - August 22, 2004

• Study of Political Regime Reform in the CCP's Fifteenth Congress , Hung, Chin-Fu
  This is a Master's thesis in interdisciplinary studies examining the political regime reformÊin mainland China during and after the CCP's fifteenth congress.
  etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0515100-131555 - May 15, 2000

• Swaine, Michael , Swaine, Michael
  Michael Swaine came to the Carnegie Endowment after 12 years at the RAND Corporation. He specializes in Chinese security and foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and East Asian international relations. One of the most prominent U.S. analysts in Chinese security studies, he is the author of more than 10 monographs on security policy in the region. At RAND, he was a senior political scientist in international studies and also research director of the RAND Center for Asia-Pacific Policy.
  www.ceip.org/files/about/Staff.asp?r=119 - October 15, 2004

• Taiwan and Cross-Strait Relations , Brown David G.
  The seminar examines Taiwan's economic and political development, investigates the country's unique international status and its complex sense of identity, and studies the development of cross-strait relations and PRC and U.S. policies toward Taiwan.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/chinareadinglists/TaiwanDBrown.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Taiwan Election Upset: Now What? , Cossa, Ralph A.
  Ralph Cossa of the Pacific Forum CSIS provides commentary on the recent elections in Taiwan and the consequences of the outcomes.
  www.csis.org/pacfor/pac0452.pdf - December 13, 2005

• The China-Taiwan Military Balance: Implications for the United States , Eland, Ivan
  This foreign policy briefing details the economic disparity between China and Taiwan and how this could eventually lead to a military disparity as well. The author discusses Taiwan\'s military advantages and makes policy recommendations for the U.S. in regards to the China-Taiwan conflict.
  cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb74.pdf - February 5, 2003

• The Chinese Political System , Vanderbilt University
  Governmental institutions and political processes in the People’s Republic of China with emphasis upon the interaction of traditional and revolutionary elements. Some attention to Taiwan since 1950 and to the overseas Chinese as parts of the Chinese political universe. (Not currently offered)
  sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/east_asia/courses - August 26, 2004

• The Cycle Created by China's One-Child Policy
  This article presents an unfavorable view of China's One-Child Policy, citing inflammatory works by author Steven Mosher and journalist Nicholas Kristoff to describe how this policy leads to forced and sex-selective abortions, infanticides, community-wide psychological pressure on women, the "little emperor" syndrome, imbalances in gender ratios, and bride-selling. Social programs that can reform the policy, improve the status of women's reproductive health care, and mitigate the impact of population growth on the economy, are also discussed.
  lawwww.cwru.edu/student_life/journals/jil/Notes/Schmidt.pdf - March 18, 2002

• The Foreign Policy of the People's Republic of China , Boston University
  This course explores the evolution of China's perceptions of its role in the world. Emphasizes both China's changing security and economic relationships within the international system, and its attempts to evolve from a regional to a world power. In addition to a critical examination of China's relationships with the superpowers and Third World, this course examines China's changing relationship to the world economy, with particular reference to technology and capital transfers. (Meets with CAS IR 577).
  bu.edu/polisci/COURSES/courdesc.html - September 17, 2004

• The impact of 9-11 on Sino-US relations: a preliminary assessment , Jia, Qingguo
  Relations between the United States and the rest of the world have changed as a result of 9-11. In what ways has this event changed Sino-US relations? How should one explain the changes and continuities of the relationship? What does all this mean for the future development of this relationship? This paper represents a modest attempt to address these questions.
  irap.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/3/2/159 - August 1, 2003

• The Language and Politics in Modern China , Indinana University
  The Language and Politics in Modern China working papers form part of a collaborative research project, \"Keywords of the Chinese Revolution: The Language of Politics and the Politics of Language in 20th-Century China,\" funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Pacific Cultural Foundation. Core project members include: Timothy Cheek (Colorado College), Joshua L. Fogel (University of California-Santa Barbara), Elizabeth J. Perry (University of California-Berkeley), Michael Schoenhals (University of Stockholm), and Project Director Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Indiana University). The Keywords project seeks to present an account of the ways that the language of politics has shaped and, in turn, has been reshaped by the Chinese Revolution from the early decades of this century to the present. The working papers will use methodologies and theories drawn from a variety of disciplines to explore the shifting meanings of politically-charged symbols and terms. General topics associated with the politics of communication will also be examined.
  www.indiana.edu/%7Eeasc/resources/working_paper/index.htm - January 27, 2005

• The Man Awakened from Dreams , Harrison, Henrietta
  This book is a study of everyday life in rural north China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century told through the story of one man’s life.
  www.sup.org/cgi-bin/search/book_desc.cgi?book_id=5068%205069 - February 22, 2005

• The One-Child Policy's Socio-Demographic Impact: Current Trends and Alternative Policy Projections , Chiu, Emily C.
  This analysis of China's one-child policy from the Wharton Business School compares China's current demographic trends with the hypothetic outcomes of a two-child policy model, such as the one that Viet Nam currently uses. A strong literature review, use of statistical modeling and population pyramids highlight the impact that China's aging population will soon have on its economy, as well as the fact that China is experiencing a sustained spike in the number of its citizens entering their child-bearing years, and whether or not the one-child policy adequately helps China prepare for its future.
  undergrad.wharton.upenn.edu/research/scholars/volume1/Chiu-Chinss_One_Child_Policy.pdf - April 22, 2005

• The Politics of Development in China , University of Calgary
  Chinese Communist leadership and policy disputes from the 1940s to the present with focus on alternative strategies for development.
  www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/calendar/current/what/courses/POLI.htm - April 7, 2004

• The Politics of Development in China , University of Calgary
  Chinese Communist leadership and policy disputes from the 1940s to the present with focus on alternative strategies for development.
  www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/calendar/current/what/courses/POLI.htm - April 7, 2004

• Think Tanks and the Policy Community in Hong Kong , Chin, James K.
  Despite their recent development, think tanks in Hong Kong, particularly private and non-government think tanks, may play an important role in future debates about policy formation in the former British colony.
  www.nira.go.jp/publ/review/2000summer/chin.pdf - June 1, 2000

• Think Tanks and the Policy Community in Hong Kong , Chin, James K.
  Despite their recent development, think tanks in Hong Kong, particularly private and non-government think tanks, may play an important role in future debates about policy formation in the former British colony.
  www.nira.go.jp/publ/review/2000summer/chin.pdf - July 1, 2000

• Thurston, Anne F. , Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
  Anne F. Thurston is an expert in Contemporary Chinese politics and society; grassroots China; the social consequences of economic development; problems of political change and democratization; village elections; NGOs; and major issues facing China in the 21st century.
  wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1462&fuseaction=topics.profile&person_id=87993 - October 21, 2004

• Topics in Asian Politics: Chinese Foreign Policy , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site
  chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/programs/chinese_courses.html - September 18, 2004

• Topics in Contemporary China Studies , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site.
  chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/programs/chinese_courses.html - September 18, 2004

• Topics in International Relations: US-China Relations , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site.
  chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/programs/chinese_courses.html - September 18, 2004

• U.S.-China Relations , Hamilton College
  Examination of the development and issues of Sino-American relations in an era of rising Chinese power. Emphasis on the interaction of global environment, national attributes and leadership characteristics in the formation of the foreign policies of both countries. Topics include the historical context of normalization, political discourse regarding human rights, the role of media, trade relations, the tension over the Taiwan strait, and cultural and educational exchange between China and the United States.
  www.hamilton.edu/academics/courses.html?dept=Government - August 19, 2004

• U.S.-China Relations , Lampton, David M.
  The course covers historical background and context of the U.S.-China relations, primary since 1949, and particularly since the conclusion of the Cold War; the process by which both nations make formal government decisions with respect to each other, and the ways in which society and interest groups affect bi-lateral cooperation.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/chinareadinglists/USChinaRelationsLampton.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Wang, Fei-ling , Wang, Fei-ling
  Dr. Wang is an Associate Professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology specializing in international relations and Asian politics. He has won numerous fellowships and awards, and has published books and articles in both Chinese and English. Dr. Wang lectures frequently in the U.S. and China, and advises American investors in China.
  www.chinacenter.net/Associates/AssocFWang/AssocFWang.htm - October 15, 2004

• Xie, Jia Lin , University of Toronto
  Dr. Jia Lin Xie has taught MBA courses in Organizational Behaviour, International Organizational behaviour, Comparative Management, Business Research Methodology, Managerial Skills, business ethics, and Chinese Management. Courses taught in Executive Programs and Development are Cross-Cultural Management, Organizational Behaviour, and Chinese Management. Research interests include job stress, job design, and cross-cultural management.
  www.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/viewFac.asp?facultyID=xiejl - October 29, 2004

• Zhou, Xiao (Kate) , Center for Chinese Studies
  Dr. Zhou is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i. Professor Zhou is interested in comparative politics, Chinese politics, Asian politics, and women and development. Her main research interests include the dynamics of transition from central planning to markets, Chinese economic development and Chinese women. She is also interested in globalization and the knowledge based economy in China. In the past two years, Professor Zhou has been involved in helping rural schools in West Hunan.
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/community/faculty/zhou_xiao.html - November 8, 2004

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• Asian Nation Studies: Japan , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site.
  www.catalog.hawaii.edu/courses/departments/asan.htm - September 18, 2004

• Contemporary Japanese Studies Seminar , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Selected human and physical features that represent economic, social, and political life. Pre: consent. (Cross-listed as GEOG 652)
  www.catalog.hawaii.edu/courses/departments/asan.htm - September 18, 2004

• International Relations of Japan , University of California, Los Angeles
  Foreign policies of Japan and interests and policies of other countries, particularly the U.S., as they relate to Japan.
  www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/catalog.asp?sa=POL+SCI&funsel=3 - August 6, 2004

• Japan Politics and Foreign Policy , George Washington University
  No course description at this site.
  www.gwu.edu/~eastasia/courses/ug_desc.htm - August 12, 2004

• Japanese Culture and Society and Performance , Brown University
  An interdisciplinary overview of Japanese society drawing on insights from anthropology, sociology, literature, history, political science and economics, but focusing on continuity and change in Japanese cultural tradition, and featuring the study of Japanese culture through performance traditions.
  boca.brown.edu/nontopicsdet.asp?year=2003&term=1&crsCode=AN0118 - August 9, 2004

• Japanese Foreign Policy and International Relations of East and Southeast Asia , University of Southern California
  Research problems in political, economic, and security issues in East and Southeast Asia, with special emphasis on the role of Japan.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/programs/syllabus.htm - September 21, 2004

• Japanese Political Thought: 1868 to Present , University of Toronto
  Asian studies course listing in the History Department of the University of Toronto. Course 1674Y covers universal topics: the nature and sources of national identity, sovereignty in the state, authority and liberty, socialism and communism, imperialism, colonialism, militarism.Ê However, traditional Japanese thought and modern Western thought have contended for place in the definition of these matters, causing great tensions with serious practical consequences for both Japanese and their Asian neighbours. This course examines the various types of traditional Japanese thought, chiefly Confucian and Shintoist, and the many strands of Western thought, following their fortunes from the Meiji Restoration of 1868, through imperialism and authoritarianism to the peaceful democracy of the present day.Ê
  www.chass.utoronto.ca/history/graduate/courses.htm#asian - August 5, 2004

• Japanese Politics , University of Southern California
  Politics, political economy, and political processes in contemporary Japan. How the political system is organized; the roles of bureaucrats, politicians, organized interest groups, and social activists in the policymaking process. Recommended preparation: POSC 120.
  www.usc.edu/dept/publications/cat2003/las/LAS_POSC/coi.html - September 21, 2004

• Japanese Politics and Culture , Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
  This course is designed to be a survey of Japanese politics, society, and culture. It will cover such areas as arts, history, philosophy, but will focus on politics and problems associated with all of these areas.
  academics.sru.edu/catalog/courses_4.asp#pols - September 21, 2004

• Japanese Politics and Society , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Lectures, seminar discussion, small-team case studies, and web page construction exercises shed light on contemporary Japan. Focus on four substantive topics: politics and history, economy and technology, education and the workplace, and community/civil society.
  student.mit.edu/catalog/m17b.html#17.541 - September 18, 2004

• Japanese Studies Seminar , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site.
  www.catalog.hawaii.edu/courses/departments/asan.htm - September 18, 2004

• Political Economy of Japan , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Examination of the institutions of the contemporary Japanese political economy including economic policy and politics, labor-management relations, and international dimensions. Pre: 201 and 202, or consent.
  www.catalog.hawaii.edu/courses/departments/asan.htm - September 18, 2004

• Politics and Social Change in Postwar Japan , Boston University
  This course will examine the relationship between politics and social change in postwar Japan. Electoral reforms hold out the promise of a reconfiguration of the political landscape in Japan, and the course will examine the prospects for broad political change in Japanese politics.
  www.bu.edu/ir/gradcourses.html - September 22, 2004

• Seminar: Japanese Politics , Stanford University
  This undergraduate/graduate seminar explores major theories used to explain the structure and dynamics of Japanese politics, including the developmental state, bureaucratic politics, interest group coalitions, single party domination, network theory, and rational choice. Student presentations are required part of the class.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/747/ - September 21, 2004

• Topics in Asian and/or Pacific Politics: Japanese Politics , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  (Alpha) Topics in Asian and/or Pacific Politics (B) Japanese politics; (C) Korean politics; (D) Chinese foreign policy.
  www.catalog.hawaii.edu/courses/departments/pols.htm - September 18, 2004

• Topics in Comparative Politics: Japanese Politics , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Political, social, and economic processes in specific countries/regions. (B) Southeast Asia; (C) Pacific Islands; (D) Communism in Asia; (F) Middle East; (G) Philippines; (H) Japan; (I) Europe; (J) India; (R) Russia.
  www.catalog.hawaii.edu/courses/departments/pols.htm - September 18, 2004

• Topics in International Relations: US-Japan Relations , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  (Alpha) Topics in International Relations (B) international relations and war; (C) dependencies; (D) U.S.-China relations (E) international organization; (F) modeling international systems; (G) U.S.-Japan relations.
  www.catalog.hawaii.edu/courses/departments/pols.htm - September 18, 2004

• 20th-Century Japan: Conference Course , Harvard University
  Japan is the first non-Western nation to industrialize and the world's second largest economy. History 1851 explores Japanese experiences of modernity in the twentieth century, emphasizing the diversity of these experiences and of their interpretations. Themes include capitalism, imperialism, war, mass culture, high growth, social change, and the discontinuities and continuities across the 1945 dividing line between "imperial Japan" and "democratic Japan." Students will develop and defend their own interpretations, finding and critically analyzing secondary and primary sources.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~hst1851/Syllabus/HIS1851F04Syllabus.pdf - August 24, 2004

• Abe, Atsuko , Obirin University
  Ms. Abe Atsuko is currently a professor at the Department of International Studies at Obirin University. She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Cambridge University. The research interests of Professor Abe include International Relations, Politics and Political Economy, role of Japan in international relations.
  read.jst.go.jp/ddbs/plsql/KNKY_EG_24?code=1000295650 - October 14, 2004

• Accessing Japanese Law: Contemprorary Issues in Japanese Law and Society , The Australian National Universty
  This course has three components.First, the course has a general substantive law component in which deeper exploration of a variety of Japanese legal areas may be explored.The specific areas of law will be decided depending upon the students’ interests and background in the first week of the course following consultation between the lecturer and students.This is particularly necessary as the survey nature of ASIA2032 does not allow coverage of many important areas or does not allow sufficiently deep investigation of other areas. Second, the course will have a practical skills component using video negotiation with students in Tokyo to test theories of Japanese legal consciousness, Japanese negotiation, Japanese contracting, and Japanese dispute resolution.Students with sufficient language skills will be encouraged to negotiate wholly or partially in Japanese language. This portion of the course seeks to provide an opportunity for students to apply their knowledge and thereby gain the concomitant benefits. Third, the course has a component for personal research in Japanese law. This portion of the course will be largely directed by the students’ own research projects in an area of Japanese law.This portion seeks to both engage students in directing their own education and to prepare them for more significant research projects such as Honours or work demands.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6021.asp - January 11, 2005

• Akami, Tomoko , Australian National University
  Lecturer, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, Australian National University. Her current research projects include an analysis of the meaning of international understanding both in war and peace time, and an analysis of the implication of welfare liberalism for outsiders within a modern nation-state boundary. She teaches Modern Japanese Society and Understanding Contemporary Japan.
  asia.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/staff/staff.html - January 23, 2005

• Albritton, Robert R. , York University
  Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Research Interests: Marxist theory with particular interest in Marxian economic theory and Marxian epistemology, poststructuralist theory. Publications include three books: A Japanese Reconstruction of Marxist Theory, A Japanese Approach to Stages of Capitalist Development, and A Japanese Approach to Political Economy:
  www.arts.yorku.ca/politics/faculty/albritton.html - October 5, 2004

• Amyx, Jennifer , University of Pennsylvania
  Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania Dr. Amyx's work focuses on the political economy of East Asia, with a particular emphasis on the Japanese political economy. Her special areas of interest include the politics of financial regulation and reform (particularly in the Asia-Pacific), the political dynamics of regional financial and trade cooperation in East Asia since 1997, the role of the bureaucracy in economic development and the role of informal policy networks.
  www.ssc.upenn.edu/polisci/faculty/bios/amyx.html - October 6, 2004

• Angel, Robert C. , University of South Carolina
  Associate Professor, Department of Government and International Studies, University of South Carolina SPECIALIZATIONS: BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS government bureaucracy; government-business relations; public relations; trade, investment and promotion; trade relations POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE comparative politics; domestic politics; economic policy; foreign policy and international relations; industrial policy; international economic policy; international public affairs; Japanese lobby in Washington, DC; leadership; political change and domestic conflict; political economy; political institutions; public diplomacy; trade policy; US policy affecting Japan-US relations SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY US perceptions of Japan.
  www.us-japan.org/otr/bios/angel.html - October 6, 2004

• Arase, David , Pamona College
  Associate Professor of Politics, 1989 A.B., Cornell University; M.A., The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Interests: Japanese Politics/Foreign Policy East Asian International Relations United States-East Asian Relations International Security
  www.politics.pomona.edu/arase.html - October 4, 2004

• Armacost, Michael , Stanford University
  Distinguished Fellow, Asia/Pacific Research Center Stanford University Research Areas: economics, finance, foreign investment, foreign relations and policy, government-business relations, military issues, nationalism, nuclear issues, political economy, politics (domestic issues), reform, security, US policy toward.
  aparc.stanford.edu/people/3042/ - October 25, 2004

• Assessing U.S.-Japan Relations , Georgetown University
  This course draws on a number of faculty members and guest lecturers to cover commercial, political, and socio-economic aspects of this important bilateral relationship. Business executives from the Japan Commerce Association in Washington participate in some class sessions, including several case studies on corporate alliances. Topics include evolving commercial strategies; cooperative business alliance practices, domestic processes and pressures on trade and investment issues; comparative business-government relations; national economic policies and prospects; U.S.-Japanese relations in a regional and multilateral context; and the framework for social and cultural understanding.
  www.georgetown.edu/undergrad/bulletin/148courses.html - September 21, 2004

• Babb, James , Newcastle University
  Lecturer, Politics, University of Newcastle Research Interests: Japanese political history and political thought, hermeneutics.
  www.ncl.ac.uk/geps/staff/profile/j.d.babb - October 6, 2004

• Beason, Richard D. , Beason, Richard D.
  Department of Marketing, University of Alberta PUBLICATIONS: JOURNAL ARTICLES "The Political-Economy of Japans Fiscal Packages During the Heisei Recession," with Dennis Patterson under revise and re-submit, American Journal of Political Science. "Testing for the Neutrality of Japan's Fiscal Packages, 1992-1997," under review. "Separation Risk and Firm Size-Earnings Relationships in Japan and the United States," under review. "The MITI Myth," The American Enterprise, July/August 1995.
  www.bus.ualberta.ca/rbeason/ - October 6, 2004

• Berger, Thomas , Boston University
  Professor, Department of International Relations, Boston University Research Interests: Politics of Advanced Industrial Nations, German Politics, Japanese Politics, International Relations East Asia and International Relations in the New Europe.
  www.bu.edu/ir/faculty/berger.html - October 25, 2004

• Bernstein, Gail , University of Arizona
  Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: gender issues, history, industry, politics (domestic issues)
  datamonster.sbs.arizona.edu/history/faculty/faculty.php?id=185 - January 7, 2005

• Blaker, Michael , Blaker, Michael
  Michael Blaker is an internationally-renowned expert on Japanese negotiating behavior and Japanese-American relations at both the corporate and government levels. A widely-published author in Japan and the United States who has taught at Harvard, Columbia, and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, he has served as a consultant and resource person to many of the leading Japanese and American think tanks, research institutions, and business organizations.
  www.blakersjapan.com/ - October 25, 2004

• Blechinger-Talcott, Verena , Hamilton College
  Ms.Blechinger-Talcott is an assistant professor of government. She earned her Ph.D.in political science from Munich University. A native of Germany, she lived in Japan for seven years, five of them as a research fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo.Blechinger-Talcott has served as a lecturer at Munich, Muenster and Tokyo universities.Her most recent position was a postcoctoral fellowship in the Program on U.S. – Japan Relations at Harvard University. Her research interests include Japanese and East Asian politics and political corruption. Blechinger-Talcott is working on a book about the relationship between deregulation and incentives for corruption in Japan, the U.S. and Germany.
  www.hamilton.edu/academics/faculty.html?dept=Asian%20Studies - November 4, 2004

• Bosworth, Stephen W. , The Fletcher School
  Dean, The Fletcher School, Medford, Massachusetts Teaching and Research Fields: US Foreign Policy; International Finance and Trade; US-Korean, US-Japan, and US-Asian relations; Energy; Arms Control and Disarmament.
  fletcher.tufts.edu/faculty/bosworth/ - October 27, 2004

• Breer, William T. , Center for Strategic & International Studies
  Japan Chair, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington, DC Expertise: Political, economic, and security affairs in Japan and Asia; U.S.-Japan policy
  www.csis.org/experts/4breer.htm - March 31, 2005

• Campbell, John C. , University of Michigan
  Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan RESEARCH INTERESTS: Japanese politics; social policy, especially health care and aging; U.S.-Japan relations; changing political attitudes in Japan and elsewhere.
  websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/cjs/faculty/bio.php?personid=3 - October 6, 2004

• Carlile, Lonny E. , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Associate Professor of Asian Studies/Center for Japanese Studies, Faculty, Center for Japanese Studies; University of Hawaii at Manoa Research Interests: The political economy of Japan, especially labor politics, industrial and trade policy, and its overseas travel industry.
  www.hawaii.edu/cjs/faculty.html - October 13, 2004

• Clemens, Steven C. , Japan Policy Research Institute
  Director of the Japan Policy Research Institute and also Executive Vice President of the New America Foundation, a centrist policy think tank in Washington, D.C.His specializations include Asia, American security and defense policy, and U.S.-Japan relations.
  www.jpri.org/about/officers.html#CJ - October 20, 2004

• Compton, Robert , State University of New York at Oneonta
  Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, SUNY at Oneonta Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction of State Legitimacy in South Africa and Japan, Presentation at the Congress of the International Political Science Association, Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa, July 15, 2003. Political Culture as a Source of Japanese Immobilism in the New World Order, Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August 30 - September 2, 2001.
  employees.oneonta.edu/comptorw/ - October 6, 2004

• Corning, Gregory , Corning, Gregory
  Gregory Corning is an assistant professor at Santa Clara University. He teaches comparative politics (Asia) and international relations. Corning's articles have appeared in Asian Survey and Pacific Affairs; his current research addresses U.S.-Japan relations, with an emphasis on trade and technology issues. Prior to his recent arrival at SCU, Corning worked in Japan for three years and taught at the University of Texas-Austin.
  www.scu.edu/SCU/Departments/PolSci/faculty/gcorning.html - October 21, 2004

• Cox, Gary , University of California San Diego
  Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California-San Diego Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: electoral politics, legislative politics
  weber.ucsd.edu/~gcox/ - December 8, 2004

• Current Japan-U.S. Relations , Vanderbilt University
  Similarities and differences in theory and practice in the United States and Japan on public policy issues such as trade, defense, environment, education, medical care, and racial prejudice.
  sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/east_asia/easminor - August 26, 2004

• Curtis, Gerald , Columbia, University
  Burgess Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, former Director of Columbia's East Asian Institute He is a specialist on comparative politics, especially election systems, campaign practices, and political parties.
  www-1.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/curtis.htm - January 31, 2005

• Democracy and History in Korea , University of Toronto
  This course examines approaches to the history of the south Korean democracy movement and the role of history within the democracy movement itself.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS476Y1 - January 17, 2005

• Ducke, Isa , German Institute for Japan Studies
  Research Fellow, German Institute for Japanese Studies In spite of the close proximity or possibly because of it Japan's relationship with other Asian countries is rather tense. This is largely due to historical issues and Japan's dealing with these issues. By comparison, economic or security considerations appear to be more "substantial" factors in Japan's foreign policy, and yet they are often shaped by those "soft issues". This becomes particularly clear in relations between Japan and other Asian countries. Of course, the special relationship between Japan and the US also plays a role in relations between Japan and Asia. Therefore, references to the "Asia-Pacific" rather than Asia alone as a focus of Japanese foreign policy are frequent.
  www.dijtokyo.org/?page=person_detail.php&p_id=17&lang=en - October 6, 2004

• Electoral Politics in America and Japan , Harvard University
  This course analyzes a set of core topics in the comparative study of elections in Japan and the United States. Given the great differences between the two nations, this might seem a curious comparison to make. Among developed nations, America and Japan appear to be as different as any two countries could be, whether comparisons are made along social, cultural, or political lines. And both are thought to be unique: the U.S. because of its presidential system of government, two-party dominance, and low levels of voter participation, Japan because of its postwar history, influential bureaucracy, and lengthy dominance by a single political party. The challenge, then, is to identify electoral phenomena common to these two seemingly idiosyncratic political systems. Our more general task is to learn about electoral politics in both nations simultaneously by using what is known about one to expand our understanding of the other.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov90ph/syllabus/gov90ph.pdf - August 24, 2004

• Estevez-Abe, Margarita , Harvard University
  After earning her Ph.D. at Harvard in 1999, Prof. Estevez-Abe was an Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Minnesota before joining the Harvard faculty. Her research interests include Japanese politics and economy, comparative social policy, varieties of capitalism and the recent changes in distinctive national models of capitalism in advanced industrial societies, and gender inequality.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs/faculty_estevez-abe.html - October 4, 2004

• Everyday Life in Interwar Japan , University of Toronto
  A close analysis of the complex relationship between everyday life, labor power and the accumulation of capital in Japan from 1917-1937 by addressing the problems of colonialism, rascism, gender, class, and social movements.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS347H1 - January 13, 2005

• Feldman, Eric A. , Center for East Asian Studies
  Eric A. Feldman (Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Law) received his JD and Ph.D. (Jurisprudence and Social Policy) from the University of California, Berkeley. He has authored/edited books and articles concerningÊJapanese society and Japan's health law and policy.ÊHe is currently working on an international study of legal and political conflicts over tobacco.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/bios_feldman.html - November 5, 2004

• Flowers, Patrice , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Assistant Professor of Political Science, Faculty, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa Research Interests: International norms and institutions; international relations theory; international law; state and national identity; gender in international relations; Japanese politics; Japan's international relations; global processes.
  www.hawaii.edu/cjs/faculty.html - October 13, 2004

• Freeman, Laurie A. , University of California, Santa Barbara
  Fields of Interest: Comparative Politics, Japanese Politics, Media and Politics Professor Freeman joined the department in 1996 after spending a year at Harvard University's Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Her current research interests concern comparative politics with an emphasis on the press and politics of Japan, and the role of the media in comparative perspective.
  www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/bios/lfreeman.php - October 4, 2004

• Fukumoto, Kentaro , Fukumoto, Kentaro
  Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Gakushuin University Books Politics in the Japanese Diet: A Statistical Analysis of Postwar Government Legislation , University of Tokyo Press, 261 pages, 2000, (Japanese). With others, The Diet Members and Money , Asahi Newspaper Company, 239 pages, 1999, (Japanese). With others, The Record of Political Reform for 1800 Days, Kodansha, 542 pages, 1999, (Japanese). Articles and Book Chapters (incomplete list) Participation, in Fukuda, A. and M. Taniguchi, eds., Political Studies on Democracy , University of Tokyo Press, 2002(forthcoming), pp. 146-62, (Japanese). (With Kawato, S., M. Masuyama, and S. Machidori) Legislative Data Analysis: Kawato Project Report No. 1, Seikei Hogaku , No. 55 (2002), pp. 157-200, (Japanese).
  www-cc.gakushuin.ac.jp/%7Ee982440/index_e.htm - October 6, 2004

• Fukuzawa Memorial Center for Modern Japanese Studies , Keio University
  Founded in 1983 as a commemorative project for the 125th anniversary of Keio University, the Center houses and maintains a considerable collection of documents and historical materials related to founder Yukichi Fukuzawa and Keio University. Other objectives are to conduct research on the activities and achievements of Keio alumni who were disciples of Fukuzawa, as well as to further the study of modern Japanese culture and Keio University's role in the formation of Japan in the modern era.
  www.keio.ac.jp/05/01.html - November 11, 2004

• Gelb, Joyce , City University of New York
  Professor, Department of Political Science, The City University of New York Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: gender issues, government, human rights, politics, Japanese politics, public policy and administration, social issues/sociology, Japanese women's issues, women
  www.ccny.cuny.edu/psc/JoyceGelb.htm - December 8, 2004

• Gilman, Theodore , Union College
  Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Union College Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: urban issues, business issues, political economy, foreign relations and policy, politics
  www.jpcentral.virginia.edu/bios/gilt.htm - January 6, 2005

• Gov't & Politics-Japan , Georgia Institute of Technology
  Government and Politics of Japan examines the main institutions, policies, and politics of contemporary Japan. Investigates the impact of social, cultural, and economic forces on Japan's government and politics.
  oscar.gatech.edu - August 26, 2004

• Governance and Finance of Japanese Firms: Reading Group , Harvard University
  We have seen an enormous increase in English-language studies of corporate finance and corporate governance relating to Japan. In this readings class, we will survey some of that literature, paying particular attention to those studies that relate to law. We presuppose no advance knowledge of Japanese, economics, or finance.
  www.law.harvard.edu/academics/registrar/catalog/electives.html - August 24, 2004

• Government and Politics of Japan , University of California, Los Angeles
  Structure and operation of contemporary Japanese political system, with special attention to domestic political forces and pro
  www.politics.ubc.ca/ - August 6, 2004

• Government and Politics of Japan , University of Utah
  Japanese political culture and history; Japanese political parties and elections; governmental structure and political leadership on national and local levels; Japanese domestic, economic and foreign policies.
  www.acs.utah.edu/GenCatalog/1028/crsdesc/pol_s.html - February 18, 2005

• Government and Politics of Japan since 1850 , University of Calgary
  Political development of modern and contemporary Japan, and Japan's diplomatic relations with its Asia-Pacific neighbors.
  www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/calendar/current/what/courses/HTST.htm - April 7, 2004

• Hara, Kimie , University of Calgary
  Dr. Hara's specialization is Russo/Soviet-Japanese relations, Japanese politics and diplomacy, international relations of the Asia-Pacific region. She is the author of a forthcoming book, Japanese - Soviet/Russian Relations Since 1945: A Difficult Peace; She has written articles on Russo/Soviet-Japanese relations in World Boundaries Series, Japan Forum, Pacific Research, Current Affairs Notes. Dr. Hara is a former degree fellow at the East-West Center. Her current research focuses on the San Francisco System and the Cold War in East Asia and the Pacific.
  poli.ucalgary.ca/dept/hara.shtml - January 11, 2005

• Hatch, Walter , Hatch, Walter
  Mr. Hatch turned his masters thesis into a book (Asia in Japan\'s Embrace, which was published in 1996 by Cambridge University Press), and is now working to turn his dissertation into a second book on the feedback effect of Asian regionalization on the political economy of Japan. A future research project will focus on the use and abuse of collective memory in the Japan-China relationship. At Colby College, where he is an assistant professor, he teaches Introduction to International Relations, Japanese Politics, Chinese Politics, and the Political Economy of Regionalization. He also serves as editor of The Japanese Economy, a journal published by M.E. Sharpe.
  www.colby.edu/govt/faculty/hatch/main.html - October 12, 2004

• Hayao, Kenji , Boston College
  Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Boston College Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: politics
  www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/meta-elements/pdf/hayao.pdf - January 14, 2005

• Hellman, Donald , University of Washington
  Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington Teaching Specializations: Japanese political economy and international relations; Pacific Rim relations; U.S. foreign policy.
  jsis.artsci.washington.edu/cv/faccv/f-j/hellman.html - February 11, 2005

• Hidaka, Yoshiki , Hudson Institute
  Visiting Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington D.C. Areas of Expertise: U.S. -Japan relations News media Yoshiki Hidaka is a visiting senior fellow of Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. He is conducting an on-going project on U.S.-Japan cooperation. Hidaka is executive producer for Yoshiki Hidaka, The Washington Report, an 80-minute documentary news program which is broadcast monthly for TV-Tokyo Network in Japan. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Taubman Center for State and Government of the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University.
  www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=HidaYosh - October 27, 2004

• Hiwatari, Nobuhiro , Hiwatari, Nobuhiro
  Professor of Political Science, Institute of Social Sciences, The University of Tokyo Academic Publications (partial list) "Adjustment to Stagflation and Neoliberal Reform in Japan, the UK, and the US," Comparative Political Studies 31-5 (1998), 602-632. "Explaining the End of the Postwar Party System," in Junji Banno (ed.), The Political Economy of Japanese Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 283-361 "Japanese Corporate Governance Reexamined," in Margaret Blair & Mark Roe (eds.), Employees and Corporate Governance (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1999), 275-313. "The Reorganization of Japan's Financial Bureaucracy: Politics of Bureaucratic Structure and Blame Avoidance," Hugh Patrick and Takeo Hoshi (eds.), Crisis and Change in the Japanese Financial System (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000)
  web.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/%7Ehiwatari/index2.html - October 6, 2004

• Holt, Jennifer Dwyer , Hunter College-City University of New York
  Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Hunter College - City University of New York. Her research interests include Japanese Politics and Political Economics. Her web site contains course offerings, publications, and related links.
  urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~jhdwyer/ - October 20, 2004

• Hook, Glen , The University of Sheffield
  Director of the Graduate School at School of East Asian Studies Glenn Hook's research interests are in the area of the international relations of contemporary Japan. His major project is on Japan's role in the restructuring of the East Asian political economy and regional order. His recent work has focussed on regionalism, subregionalism and microregionalism in East Asia, which has led to the publication of a number of articles, chapters and edited books, Subregionalism and World Order (co-editor, 1999), Microgregionalism and World Order (co-editor, 2002),and Japan and Okinawa (co-editor 2003). His work examines the role of both state and nonstate actors in the political, economic and security dimensions of regional relations.
  www.seas.ac.uk/Research/Hook.shtml - October 6, 2004

• Hori, Makiyo , Waseda University
  Professor, Department of Political Science, Waseda University, Japan Research Interests: Japanese political history
  www.waseda.jp/seikei/english/faculty/pages/hori-makiyo-e.html - January 14, 2005

• Horiuchi, Yusaku , The Australian National University
  Lecturer, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, Australian National University Research interests/expertise Electoral systems and political behavior Political economy Public opinion Research methods Japan Current Projects Political and economic changes in Japan Political economy of regionalism in South Korea American foreign policy and global public opinion Web-based experimental studies of political attitudes.
  apseg.anu.edu.au/staff/yhoriuchi.php - October 6, 2004

• Hoston, Germaine , University of California, San Diego
  Professor of Political Science, Adjunct Professor of IRPS Director, Center for Decmocratization and Economic Development University of California, San Diego Hoston is a specialist on both Chinese and Japanese politics, and her work has focused on the linkage between political development and political thought across national contexts.
  polisci.ucsd.edu/faculty/hoston.htm - October 27, 2004

• Hrebenar, Ronald , University of Utah
  Professor of Political Science, University of UtahaResearch and Teaching Interests:He is the author, editor or co-editor of a dozen books, over 30 articles and chapters on the topics of interest groups, lobbying, political parties and elections in the United States and Japan. Dr. Hrebenar regularly teaches classes on political parties and elections, interest groups and lobbying, Japanese politics, and elections and Asian government and Politics (East Asia) in addition to the Introduction to American Politics course.
  www.poli-sci.utah.edu/HREBENAR.htm - October 20, 2004

• Hughes, Chris , University of Warwick
  Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Center for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. His research interests include Japanese foreign and security policy; Japanese international political economy; regionalism in East Asia; Japanese radicalism and terrorism; post-Cold War traditional and non-traditional security policy, and North Korea's external political and economic relations.
  www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/people/staff/chughes/ - October 25, 2004

• Ibata-Arens, Kathryn , DePaul University
  Assistant Professor, Depaul University, Department of Political Science. She is working on a book based on an extensive qualitative and quantitative case study analysis in Japan of three innovative clusters of high technology manufactures in separate regions, conducted from 1996 to1999 while a Fulbright Doctoral Fellow and in 2002 as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Post-Doctoral Fellow at Tokyo University. In addition, she is working on a project that compares innovative communities of firms in Japan's Kansai region with the American Midwest and is leading the department's initiative in Pacific Rim Political Economy.
  condor.depaul.edu/%7Ekibataar/intro.htm - October 10, 2004

• Itoh, Hiroshi , Plattsburgh State University of New York
  Professor, Department of Political Science, Plattsburgh State University of New York. Dr. Itoh specializes in Law and Japanese Politics. He teaches an introductory course on comparative and international politics and two other law courses: intro to law and global law. In addition, he teaches Japanese Politics and Asia Today, a cross-listed course that is part of the Asian Studies minor as well as the political science curriculum. Dr. Itoh's research focuses on the Japanese Supreme Court along with other aspects of Japanese Law & Politics.
  www.plattsburgh.edu/academics/polisci/itoh.php - October 20, 2004

• Itoh, Mayumi , University of Nevada Las Vegas
  Associate Professor, Political Science, UNLV Her areas of interest are comparative politics and international relations, especially in northeast Asia. She has published articles on Japanese domestic politics and foreign policy, and two books, "Globalization of Japan: Japanese Sakoku Mentality and U.S. Efforts to Open Japan" (St. Martin's Press, 1998), and "The Rise and Fall of the Hatoyama Dynasty: Japanese Political Leadership Through the Generations" (2003, Palgrave/St. Martin's Press).
  liberalarts.unlv.edu/interdisciplinary/MayumiItohtextAsianStudies.html - October 20, 2004

• Jain, Purnendra , Jain, Purnendra
  This website provides an extensive history of Prof. Jain's professional career including research, lectures, publications. It also contains information about symposiums and provides related links.
  www.glocosen.org/toppage1.htm - October 4, 2004

• Japan in August 2003 , Thompson, Craig
  This publication provides a comprehensive coverage and analysis of developments in domestic and international politicsÊof Japan. ItÊ closely follows signifficant events that take place on the domestic and international arenas. The timelines included into the article are particularly useful for a reader.
  www.jiia.or.jp/index-en.html - November 23, 2004

• Japan in International Politics , Boston University
  International and domestic influences on Japan's international behavior in the past as a predictor of Japan's future role in international politics. Covers Japan's role in the Cold War, post-war Asia, and the management of the global economy. Examines viability of post-Cold War U.S.- Japan relationship.
  www.bu.edu/eas/courses.html - September 22, 2004

• Japan in International Politics , Boston University
  International and domestic influences on Japan's international behavior in the past as a predictor of Japan's future role in international politics. Covers Japan's role in the Cold War, post-war Asia, and the management of the global economy. Examines viability of post-Cold War U.S.- Japan relationship.http://web.bu.edu/ir/syllabi/casir579.html (Syllabus Available)
  bu.edu/ir/undergrad/undergradcourses.html - August 12, 2004

• Japan in International Politics: Postwar Legacies and Cold War Dynamics , Boston University
  Both the international and domestic contexts in which Japan formulates its foreign policy are in the process of change. The Cold War has ended, and the bipolar structure that has shaped international politics since the end of World War II has dissembled. Within Japan, the political party system that has defined the postwar foreign policy making process is in the process of transformation. This course will explore the ways in which international and domestic influences have shaped Japan's international behavior in the past in an effort to consider how Japan is likely to affect, and be affected by, international politics in the future.
  bu.edu/ir/syllabi/casir579.html - August 12, 2004

• Japan in July 2003 , Thomson, Craig
  The article provider a comprehensive analysis of political events that took place in Japan in July 2003. The highlight of the publication is discussion of the Social Measures Law on Humanitarian and Reconstruction Assistance for Iraq. The publication also covers developments in global politics viewingÊthem from the position of Japan.
  www.jiia.or.jp/index-en.html - November 23, 2004

• Japan in June 2003 , Thompson, Craig
  The acticle discusses and analyses developments of domestic and international policies in Japan. One of the major highlight of the publication is the discussion of the trinity reforms.
  www.jiia.or.jp/index-en.html - November 23, 2004

• Japan in May 2003 , Thomson, Craig
  The article covers major events in polical and financial life of Japan that took place in May of 2003. Emergency Contingency Legislation are in the center of discussion.
  www.jiia.or.jp/index-en.html - November 23, 2004

• Japan Studies, University of Kentucky , University of Kentucky
  The Japan Studies Program supports a community of Japan area specialists who teach and pursue research in the University\'s various departments (geography, history, English, political science, Russian and Eastern Studies, sociology) and professional schools (architecture and communications). In addition to teaching and research responsibilities the faculty lecture to outside groups, write extensively for both scholarly journals and popular media, author books on Japan, participate in national professional associations. The Program responds to and fosters growing American interest (particularly in Kentucky) in Japan.  This site includes a course schedule, academic programs, publications, faculty bios, and related links.
  www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/RAE/Japan/jpnstudy.htm - February 24, 2005

• Japan's Asia Policy , Inoguchi, Takashi
  The author argues that there are similarities in opinions of Western Europeans and Japanese about Greater Asia in the 21st Century. Providing an analysis of changes in the Japanese foreign policy - from isolationism to one of the leaders - the author puts an emphasis on the dinamics ofÊSino-Japanese relations and the roleÊ the U.S. playsÊin them.
  ads.bookpark.ne.jp/ads/get.asp?site=SPFV&file=SPFV00058.pdf - November 9, 2004

• Japan's Nuclear Option: Security, Politics, and Policy in the 21st Century , Self, Benjamin L., Thomson, Jeffrey W. eds.
  Will Japan-the only victim of atomic attack-decide to \"go nuclear?\"Ê Despite deep-seated anti-nuclear sentiment among the Japanese public, the prospect of a nuclear-armed North Korea has inflamed speculation about Japan\'s own intentions and capabilities, particularly its plutonium reprocessing program.Ê Change within Japan itself has intensified the concerns of those who are suspicious: the erosion of postwar pacifism has led to a new willingness to dispatch forces abroad, while threats in the regional and global security environment are inducing ever-closer cooperation with the United States in areas such as missile defense and counter-terrorism. Along with burgeoning nationalism and renewed debate about revising its Peace Constitution, sympathetic consideration of \"the nuclear option\" has become a more commonplace feature of the strategic dialogue among some Japanese.Ê An increasing number of observers, therefore, are no longer confident that the long-standing underpinnings of Japan\'s non-nuclear posture are entirely reliable as a guide to future policy. The Stimson Center assembled a joint US-Japan task force to examine the issues surrounding Japan\'s nuclear option, comprising specialists on Japanese domestic politics, East Asian regional security, and nuclear non-proliferation, guided by an esteemed group of advisors.Ê While nobody at all familiar with this problem can be entirely without preconceptions, the team brought together diverse views and addressed the questions deeply, delving beyond oversimplifications of the \"nuclear allergy\" or the implacable logic of Neorealism. The product of the project, this volume approaches Japan\'s nuclear options from three perspectives-Japan\'s security, political, and policy contexts.Ê While noting areas of debate over Japan\'s current non-nuclear posture, overall the studies conclude that Japan does not now view the development of nuclear arms to be in its national interest and that it is unlikely to do so in the foreseeable future.Ê In coming to this conclusion, the task force members explore the implications of the issue for future Japanese strategic thinking, the US-Japan alliance, and the East Asian security environment.
  www.stimson.org/fopo/pubs.cfm?ID=91 - March 7, 2005

• Japan's Pacific War:1937 - 1945 , Brown University
  Uses film, oral histories, historical fiction, and more traditional forms of historical interpretation to explore the events, ideas, and legacies of Japan's Pacific War. The armed conflict began in 1937 with the Japanese invasion of China and ended in 1945 with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Some attention is paid to military developments, but the principle concerns fall into the areas of mutual images, mobilization, and memory.
  boca.brown.edu/nontopicsdet.asp?year=2004&term=1&crsCode=HI0157&SectCode=S001 - January 12, 2005

• Japan-U.S. Relations , University of Texas at Austin
  Following a discussion-based format, we will comprehensively survey Japanese-U.S. relations in their political, cultural, military, and economic dimensions; from their beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. We will consider in special detail one decisive episode, the American occupation of Japan that folloed world War II. Seminar members will each write and present for discussion a substantial research paper on a selected aspect of Japanese-American relations.
  asnic-server.ans.utexas.edu:591/courses/FMPro?-db=cds.fp5&-format=drecord%5fdetail.htm&-lay=data-entry%20screen&-recid=36055&-findall= - September 20, 2004

• Japan: Contemporary Political Problems , University of Calgary
  In-depth analysis of selected problems with emphasis on Japan's politics and its diplomatic relations with its Asia Pacific neighbours.
  www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/calendar/current/what/courses/POLI.htm - April 7, 2004

• Japanese and Western Pacific Politics , University of California, Los Angeles
  UCLA general catalog of courses, no course description available at this site.
  www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/catalog.asp?sa=POL+SCI&funsel=3 - August 6, 2004

• Japanese Foreign Policy , Stanford University
  Professor Daniel I. Okimoto's undergraduate course analyzes the origins of World War II in the Pacific, Japan's role in international security, and the U.S.-Japan trade conflict.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/675/ - September 21, 2004

• Japanese Foreign Policy , University of Texas at Austin
  This course is designed to introduce upper level undergraduates to the foreign and domestic determinants of Japanese foreign policy-making and international relations from the beginning of the modern era (1868) to the present. We will address a wide range of issues, including the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars, the Pacific War, the Japanese foreign policy-making process, postwar trade and security relations between Japan and the U.S., Japan's role in Asia, and the implications of the ongoing nuclear crisis in North Korea for Japan.
  asnic-server.ans.utexas.edu:591/courses/FMPro?-db=cds.fp5&-format=drecord%5fdetail.htm&-lay=data-entry%20screen&-recid=36050&-findall= - September 20, 2004

• Japanese Foreign Policy , Claremont McKenna College
  Examines Japan's contemporary international relations with special emphasis on the United States, the former Soviet Union, and China. It analyzes the way in which Japan conducts diplomatic activities, resolves international disputes, manages defense issues, and pursues a growing economic and political role in the world.
  claremontmckenna.edu/admission/catalog/2003-2004/htmls/majors/government.asp#courses - August 12, 2004

• Japanese Foreign Policy , Stanford University
  Professor Daniel I. Okimoto's course analyzes the origins of World War II in the Pacific, Japan's role in international security, and the U.S.-Japan trade conflict.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/675/ - August 22, 2004

• Japanese Foreign Policy , Heinrich, William L.
  Surveys the institutions and processes of government and politics in Japan. Topics include the national Diet, political parties, the national bureaucracy, electoral systems and behavior, political recruitment and national leadership styles. Considers in detail the implications for domestic and foreign policy, as well as the nature of Japanese democracy and prospects for economic reform.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/japan/japancourses.html - September 20, 2004

• Japanese Foreign Policy , University of Southern California
  Economic, political, territorial, and security issues; foreign policy decision-making; relations with major powers and neighboring states.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/programs/syllabus.htm - October 2, 2004

• Japanese Foreign Policy and International Relations of East and Southeast Asi , University of Southern California
  Research problems in political, economic, and security issues in East and Southeast Asia, with special emphasis on the role of Japan.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/programs/syllabus.htm - October 2, 2004

• Japanese Government and Politics , University of British Columbia
  A general introduction to modern Japanese politics from various theoretical and comparative perspectives.
  courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/main?pname=subjarea&tname=subjareas&req=3&dept=POLI&course=322 - January 18, 2005

• Japanese Government and Politics , Geigle, R.
  This is a course in the government and politics of Japan.  In it we will study the nineteenth and twentieth century development of democratic institutions and practices in Japan.  Most Americans are aware that the government of the United States wrote a democratic constitution and imposed it on the Japanese at the end of WW II.  They are not generally aware, however, that Japan adopted its own democratic constitution in 1889 during a period known as the \"Meiji Restoration\" and that the constitution they adopted was, in part, modeled after western democracies, including our own.  It did so at the end of an extraordinary period of national self-examination that began with the end of the period of Japanese history known as the \"Tokugawa.\"  This was a two century period of self-isolation that left Japan one of the most culturally homogeneous populations in the world and one of the least politically, economically, and materially developed.  This isolation ended when the \"West,\" particularly the United States, forced Japan into a series of \"unequal\" trade agreements in the 1850\'s.
  www.csubak.edu/~rgeigle/PLSI322.htm - February 17, 2005

• Japanese Political Economy , Grimes, William
  This course will address various aspects of the Japanese political economy. We will seek insights into state-society relations and the nature of the Japanese state from a variety of angles, both theoretical and empirical. Along the way, we will cover a number of the most influential English-language texts on Japan. In the end, students will have learned a great deal about Japan's state and private sector, how they work, and how they interact.
  bu.edu/wgrimes/IR765syllabus.html - August 12, 2004

• Japanese Political Economy , Boston University
  Examines various aspects of the Japanese economy, ranging from the Occupation to the roles of political parties and the bureaucracy. Considers state-society relations and the nature of the Japanese state from both the theoretical and empirical angles.
  bu.edu/polisci/COURSES/courdesc.html - August 12, 2004

• Japanese Political Thought, 1868 to the Present , University of Toronto
  Ideas behind the transformation from traditional institutions to constitutional democracy; the rise and fall of imperialism and militarism; Japanese identity and Japan's place in the world.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_his.htm - January 1, 2004

• Japanese Politics , Indiana University
  This course surveys Japan's modern political institutions and foreign policy. We will spend about three weeks on the period from the late 19th century to the U.S. Occupation of Japan after World War II, emphasizing continuities and discontinuities after the war. We will then cover the police, the judiciary, elections, the party system, the bureaucracy, the press, interest groups in sectors such as big business and agriculture, and political culture. Special attention will go to the state's industrial policy, welfare policy, and policy toward the environment. Regarding foreign relations, we will examine Japanese policy toward Korea and China as well as security and trade relations between Japan and the United States.
  www.indiana.edu/%7Edeanfac/blfal04/pols/pols_y334_10241.html - September 20, 2004

• Japanese Politics , Princeton University
  A study of politics and government in Japan, focusing on the period since World War II. Attention will be given to the development of the party system, the formation of public policy, and the evolution of the national economy.
  www.princeton.edu/pr/catalog/ua/03/304.htm - August 12, 2004

• Japanese Politics , Duke University
  This course examines the sources of strength and weakness in the Japanese economy, the rise of new issues and strains in postindustrial society, changes in the party system and decision-making process, the possible transfer of power, the challenge of Japan's new world role. Instructor: McKean
  www.aas.duke.edu/reg/synopsis/view.cgi?s=01&action=display&subj=POLSCI&course=211S&sem=0940 - August 22, 2004

• Japanese Politics , Schoppa, Len
  Surveys contemporary Japanese society and political behavior including such topics as political culture, interest groups, political parties, parliamentary democracy, decision-making, and public policy.
  www.people.virginia.edu/~ljs2k/cp553.html - August 26, 2004

• Japanese Politics , University of Pennsylvania
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - September 21, 2004

• Japanese Politics , Columbia University
  Analysis of modern and contemporary Japanese politics and government, including patterns of popular political participation, political party organization and behavior, public policy decision-making processes, and the domestic politics of foreign and defense policies.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Japanese Politics , Cornell University
  Japanese politics in comparative perspective, with special focus on the "lost decade" years from the early 1990s to the present. Topics to include historical foundations; political parties and elections; legislative politics; nationalism; the bureaucracy; social welfare, immigration, labor, industrial, and general economic policy; foreign relations; non-government organizations and civil society; law and politics; and/or others according to student interest.
  cuinfo.cornell.edu/Academic/Courses/CoSdetail.phtml?college=AS&number=439&prefix=GOVT&title=Japanese+Politics+%28also+ASIAN+439%29+%40+%28III%29+%28SBA%29 - September 27, 2004

• Japanese Politics , Silberman, B.
  This course is a survey of the major aspects of Japanese politics: party politics, bureaucracy, the diet, and political behavior in post-World War II Japan.
  political-science.uchicago.edu/courses/courses-comparative.html - February 17, 2005

• Japanese Politics and Political Economy , Columbia University
  Contemporary Japanese politics with a focus on theoretical conception of state-society relations and the political, institutional, and international contexts of the policymaking process. Theoretical frameworks applied to a variety of issues, including policy toward industry, the economy, trade and investment, agriculture, welfare, and the environment.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Japanese Politics and Public Policy , Calder, Kent E.
  The course is an introduction to post-World War II Japanese politics and public policy, involving substantial comparison throughout with political patterns elsewhere in the industrialized world, and within East Asia. After a general introduction to Japanese political development since 1868, the cource undertakes more detailed analysis of current political structure and processes, as well as of domestic and foreign policy issues. Particular emphasis is palced on understanding how domestic and international politics influence the functioning of the Japanese economiy.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/japanreadinglists/JapanesePoliticsandPolicyCalder.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Japanese Politics Central , www.japanesepoliticians.com/
  JP Central provides a searchable database on Japanese politicians that was donated to the University of Virginia by Dynamic Strategies Asia in 2003. Other resources, including information on Japanese election results and public policy debates, were developed by the Japan Political Studies Group under the leadership of Leonard Schoppa.
  www.japanesepoliticians.com/ - October 6, 2004

• Jiang, Wenran , University of Alberta
  Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair - Political Science, University of Alberta Field of Interest: Comparative Politics East Asian politics, focusing on the emerging importance of East Asia in the global economy and world politics Japanese political economy and foreign policy Chinese politics, including current reforms and foreign policy Theories of development Special Research Interests: Classroom application of computer technology, especially multi-media based interactive teaching and learning in the field of political studies.
  www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/polisci/Jiang.cfm - February 17, 2005

• Johnson, Chalmers , Japan Policy Research Institute
  President, Japan Policy Research InstituteHe is president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, a non-profit research and public affairs organization devoted to public education concerning Japan and international relations in the Pacific. He taught for thirty years, 1962-1992, at the Berkeley and San Diego campuses of the University of California and held endowed chairs in Asian politics at both of them. At Berkeley he served as chairman of the Center for Chinese Studies and as chairman of the Department of Political Science.
  www.jpri.org/about/officers.html#CJ - October 20, 2004

• Kasza, Gregory , Indiana University
  Professor, EALC and Political Science Research Interests: Modern Japanese politics and business Japanese social institutions and mass media Comparative politics State-society relations War and politics.
  www.indiana.edu/~ealc/people/faculty/individual/kasza.html - October 25, 2004

• Kato, Tetsuro , Kato, Tetsuro
  Professor of Political Science, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University Current Research: Political Economy of Postwar Japan Japanese Victims by the Stalinist Purge in the USSR in the 1930s Japanese Intellectuals and Artists in Berlin at the end of Weimar Republic?
  members.jcom.home.ne.jp/katori/Who.html - February 17, 2005

• Kawasaki, Tsuyoshi , Simon Fraser University
  Associate Professor, and Graduate Chair, Simon Fraser University Dr. Kawasaki\'s research interests include Japanese politics and foreign policy, international relations theory, and international relations in the Asia-Pacific region. His articles have appeared in The Journal of Public Policy, The Pacific Review, Etudes Internationales, International Journal, International Relations of the Asia Pacific, and Leviathan.
  www.sfu.ca/politics/contact/kawa.html - March 31, 2005

• Kawato, Sadafumi , Tohoku University
  Professor, Graduate School of Law, Public Law and Policy, Tohoku University Research: Political Science, Legislative Politics in Japan Comparative Study of Parliamentary Democracies Analysis of Parties and Elections
  www5.bureau.tohoku.ac.jp/e_detail/1000160719.html - February 17, 2005

• Kinhide, Mushakoji , United Nations University
  Professor Kinhide Mushakoji, a Japanese authority on international affairs, is the Vice-Rector of the regional and Global Studies Division of the United Nations University. He has been with the University since 1976. He is Vice-President of the International Political Science Association, and a member of the Executive Board of the Japanese Political Science Association. He is also a member of the Japanese Association of International Relations, the Japanese Peace Studies Association, and the International Peace Research Association. Among his publications are An Introduction to Peace Research, Japanese Foreign Policy in a Multi-Polar World and Behavioural Sciences and International Politics.
  www.unu.edu/history/mushakoji.html - October 19, 2004

• Kobayashi, Yoshiaki , Keio University
  Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Keio University Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: politics (domestic issues), public policy and administration, finance, electoral system and reform, law, media, urban issues
  www.law.keio.ac.jp/~kobayasi/ - December 8, 2004

• Komori, Yoshihisa , Institute for Corean-American Studies
  Editor-at-Large, The Sankei Newspaper, Washington D.C. Geographic Regions: China, Japan, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia Research Areas: defense and security issues, economics, foreign relations and policy, history, military issues, politics (domestic issues), regionalism, US policy toward
  www.icasinc.org/bios/komori.html - January 6, 2005

• Kovalio, Jacob , Carleton University
  Associate Professor, Department of History Research Interests and in Progress: 1- Modern Japanese/Asian foreign policy, politics, security: Asianism, Asian security and international relations Territorial disputes and Japanese foreign policy ASEAN + 3 and Asian regionalism AAU (Association of Asian Union) 2- Japanese/Chinese/Asia Pacific international relations, security nationalism: Yudayaka: the birth and growth of antisemitism in Judenrein Japan and Asia Pacific
  www.carleton.ca/~jkovalio/about.html - October 20, 2004

• Krauss, Ellis , University of California at San Diego
  Professor of Japanese Politics and Policymaking. Professor Krauss is a leading expert on Japanese politics, U.S.-Japan relations, and Japan's political economy.
  irps.ucsd.edu/academics/f-krauss.php - October 2, 2004

• Kuroda, Yasumasa , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa Research Interests: Cross cultural survey research methodology, political socialization and recruitment, public opinion, and international politics; Geographic Areas: Japan, West Asia and the United States.
  www.politicalscience.hawaii.edu/Faculty/kuroda/kuroda.htm - October 20, 2004

• Laurence, Henry , Bowdoin College
  Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies, Chair Asian Studies, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. He teaches courses in Japanese and Asian politics, media and politics, and international political economy. His research concerns the effects of globalization on countries including Japan, Britain and the USA.
  academic.bowdoin.edu/faculty/H/hlaurenc/ - October 10, 2004

• Law and Society in Japan , University of Pennsylvania
  This course focuses on Japan's legal system and legal institutions, examines how they reflect and reinforce Japanese culture and politics, and provides an opportunity to test current theories about the relation between law and society using a non-Western experience. Because the class uses Japan as a way to illustrate the diverse roles of law in advanced industrial democracies, much of the material we read will be relevant to students with general comparative interests. The course looks closely at several areas of Japanese law, including judicial review, women's rights, patients' rights, criminal procedure, police practices, HIV/AIDS, and the regulation of the bar. The readings consist of articles by legal academics, anthropologists,political scientists, sociologists, and other scholars, translated cases and legal documents, and historical materials. No particular background is required or recommended, but students without previous knowledge of Japan may want to read E. Reischauer, The Japanese; J.A.A. Stockwin, Japan: Divided Politics in a Growth Economy; C. Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle; or another book on contemporary Japan. The exam will either be in-class or a takeaway.
  - January 5, 2005

• LeBlanc, Robin , Washington and Lee University
  Assistant Professor of Politics, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia Fields of Study: Comparative Politics/Japan, American Politics/Congress,  Political Theory.
  home.wlu.edu/~leblancr/Vitae.html - February 17, 2005

• Leheny, David , University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research focuses on Japanese politics and its susceptibility to international norms. In general, I have tried to use theories of norms to illuminate unconventional issues in Japanese politics those that have generally fallen outside of the scope of most political accounts of the nation.
  polisci.wisc.edu/users/Leheny/ - October 10, 2004

• MacDougall, Terry E. , Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies Stanford Center for Technology and InnovationKyoto Center for Japanese StudiesStanford Center for Technology and Innovation
  Director, Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies, Stanford Center for Technology and Innovation Geographic Regions: East Asia, Japan Research Areas: foreign relations, domestic politics, defense policy, regional development, comparative politics, foreign relations and policy
  osp.stanford.edu/KCJS/know/fac_staff/ - December 26, 2004

• Maclachlan, Patricia , University of Texas
  Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas Research: Consumerism in advanced industrial democracies, with a focus on Japan. Currently researching the reform of the Japanese postal system and the political power of the commissioned postmasters
  www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/asianstudies/faculty/profiles/maclachlan/patricia/ - December 26, 2004

• Martin, Sherry L. , Cornell University
  Professor Martin's research and teaching interests include: Comparative politics; Japanese politics; mass political behavior and electoral politics; gender and politics.
  falcon.arts.cornell.edu/Govt/faculty/Martin.html - November 4, 2004

• Matsuda, Toshihiko , International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Specialized Fields: Modern history of Japan-Korea relations Current Research Themes: Formation and development of the police organization in colonial Korea; Colonial Korea and the suffrage issue; Pan-Asianism in modern Japan and Korea; history of Korean minorities in Japan before and after WWII.
  www.nichibun.ac.jp/research/staff1/MATSUDA_Toshihiko2_e.html - February 24, 2005

• Memory Wars: Politics of War Remembrance in Japan , Fujiwara, Kiichi
  Dr. Kiichi Fujiwara will examine the issue of how wars are not forgotten; they are repeatedly remembered, and that the political impact of war memories may increase over time. He has written that memories of war may be quite distinct in their morals and lessons; conflicts break out by the encounter of diverse memories, as in the case of war memories in Asia. In the seminar, Dr. Fujiwara will discuss the rise and fall of various war memories, along with their relation to the political setting of the time.
  ads.bookpark.ne.jp/ads/get.asp?site=SPFV&file=SPFV00070.pdf - November 9, 2004

• Mikanagi, Yumiko , International Christian University
  Associate Professor, Division of Social Sciences, International Christian University Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: foreign relations and policy, government, politics, political economy, women's studies, gender issues
  www.japanesepoliticians.com/bios/miky.htm - January 6, 2005

• Mimura, Janis , Suny Stony Brook
  Assistant Professor, Department of History, SUNY Stony Brook Research Interests: Modern Japan, historical political-economy, inter-war intellectuals, imperialism, and comparative late industrialization.
  www.sunysb.edu/history/faculty/facultybio/mimura.htm - October 6, 2004

• Mochizuki, Mike , George Washington University
  Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University    Expertise: Japanese politics and foreign policy, U.S.-Japan relations, East Asian security
  www.gwu.edu/~elliott/facultystaff/mochizuki.cfm - January 31, 2005

• Morse, Ronald A. , University of Nevada Las Vegas
  Toyko Foundation Professor of Japan Studies, Interdisciplinary Degree Programs, UNLV Professor Morse is a well-known commentator on U.S-Asian affairs and a regular contributor to the Japan Times, Jap@n Inc., and the Seiron column of the Sankei Newspaper. Author of many books, in 2002 he published Unconditional Success: American Security Policy Toward Japan and Tokyo’s Options (in Japanese). Previous appointments include: professor of economics and business administration at Reitaku University in Tokyo, Japan; visiting fellow, Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Institute; Development Director and Director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.; special assistant for policy to the Librarian of Congress, Washington D.C.; executive vice president of the Economic Strategy Institute, a Washington, D. C. think tank; visiting professor at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University; and director of international fundraising for the University of Maryland, College Park; as well as appointments at the Department of Defense, Department of State, and Department of Energy.
  liberalarts.unlv.edu/interdisciplinary/RonMorsetextAsianStudies.html - January 23, 2005

• Nelson, John K. , University of San Francisco
  Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies (MAPS) Faculty, University of San Francisco Specialization: Shinto; modern Japanese religion, politics, and culture.
  www.pacificrim.usfca.edu/academics/faculty.html - January 14, 2005

• Nishi, Toshio , Stanford University
  Research fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Expertise: U.S.-Japan relations, contemporary Japan
  www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/nishi.html - January 11, 2005

• Okimoto, Daniel , Stanford University
  Senior Fellow, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University Research: The Role of the State in Management of Japan's Industrial Economy U.S.-Japan Relations Foreign Direct Investments Security Issues in the Asia/Pacific Region Political-economic reform in Japan and Korea Comparative Politics China
  www.stanford.edu/group/polisci/faculty/okimoto.html - January 7, 2005

• Olsen, Edward A. , Naval Postgraduate School
  Professor, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California RESEARCH INTERESTS: Japanese Politics; Korean Politics; US-Asian relations; U.S. Foreign and Defense Policy; Research Associate, Center for East Asian Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
  research.nps.navy.mil/cgi-bin/vita.cgi?p=display_vita&id=1023568007 - January 11, 2005

• Oros, Andrew , Washington College
  Professor, Washington College, Department of Political Science. Professor Oros is a specialist on the international and comparative politics of East Asia and the advanced industrial democracies, with an emphasis on theoretical approaches to managing security. Prior to coming to Washington College, he taught courses at George Washington, American, and Columbia universities. At Washington College he is offering courses on international politics, Japanese and Chinese politics, the comparative politics of Western Europe and East Asia, and American foreign relations. His current research interests include an examination of recent changes to Japan's security posture (such as the "nuclear option"), cross-national efforts to reform intelligence-gathering organizations, and the implications of the rise of the political right across the advanced industrial democracies.
  polisci.washcoll.edu/oros.htm - October 10, 2004

• Oros, Andrew , Washington College
  Professor, Political Science Department, Washington College Professor Oros is a specialist on the international and comparative politics of East Asia and the advanced industrial democracies, with an emphasis on theoretical approaches to managing security.
  polisci.washcoll.edu/oros.htm - January 17, 2005

• Patterson, Dennis , Texas Tech University
  Department of Political Science, Texas Tech University Areas of specialization: Comparative politics (advanced societies), politics of Japan/Asia, comparative political economy, political institutions/election systems, rational choice models of politics, security in East Asia.
  www.depts.ttu.edu/politicalscience/pattersonbio.htm - October 25, 2004

• Pekkanen, Robert , University of Washington
  Assistant Professor, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington Specialization: Japanese politics. Current research and teaching interests: Civil society and party politics.
  faculty.washington.edu/pekkanen/ - February 11, 2005

• Pharr, Susan J. , Harvard University
  Her research interests include comparative political behavior; comparative politics of industrialized nations; democratization and social change in Japan and Asia, political development; civil society and nonprofit organizations; political ethics and corruption; environmental politics; the role of the media in politics; the role of Japan and the United States in development; international relations in East Asia; and international political economy of development. Her current research focuses on the changing nature of relations between citizens and states in Japan and Asia.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs/faculty_pharr.html - October 4, 2004

• Politics and Government of Japan , University of Toronto
  Undergraduate course listings in the Political Science department of the University of Toronto. POL335H1 focuses on the political economy of Japan from Late Tokugawa to the Present. What was the historical significance of the West's arrival in Japan in the late 19th century? How explain Japanese imperialism and colonialism? How has war or the threat of war shaped politics and economics? What happened to the "economic miracle" in post World War II years? What has daily life been like, living with capitalism in bad times during the so-called "Lost Decade" starting in the early 1990s?
  www.chass.utoronto.ca/polsci/information/undergrad/courses/fall_winter/courses_offered/300_level.htm - August 5, 2004

• Politics and Government of Japan , University of Toronto
  The course is designed to trace Japan\'s rise to global prominence in the 20th century. Why has globalization in recent years prompted such extraordinary political and economic difficulties in Japan? The areas of discussion include also social and cultural aspects of modern public life.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_pol.htm - January 17, 2005

• Politics and Policy in Contemporary Japan , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  This subject is designed for upper level undergraduates and graduate students as an introduction to politics and the policy process in modern Japan. The semester is divided into two parts. After a two-week general introduction to Japan and to the dominant approaches to the study of Japanese history, politics and society, we will begin exploring five aspects of Japanese politics: (1) Party Politics, (2) Electoral Politics, (3) Interest Group Politics, and (4) Bureaucratic Politics. The second part of the semester focuses on public policy, divided into seven major policy areas: (1) Social Policy, (2) Foreign Policy, (3) Defense Policy, (4) Energy Policy, (5) Science and Technology Policy, (6) Industrial Policy, and (7) Trade Policy. We will try to understand the ways in which the actors and institutions identified in the first part of the semester affect the policy process across a variety of issue areas.
  ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-537Politics-and-Policy-in-Contemporary-JapanSpring2003/CourseHome/index.htm - September 18, 2004

• Politics and Policy in Contemporary Japan , Samuels, Richard J.
  This subject is designed for upper level undergraduates and graduate students as an introduction to politics and the policy process in modern Japan. The semester is divided into two parts. After a two-week general introduction to Japan and to the dominant approaches to the study of Japanese history, politics and society, we will begin exploring five aspects of Japanese politics: (1) Party Politics, (2) Electoral Politics, (3) Interest Group Politics, and (4) Bureaucratic Politics. The second part of the semester focuses on public policy, divided into seven major policy areas: (1) Social Policy, (2) Foreign Policy, (3) Defense Policy, (4) Energy Policy, (5) Science and Technology Policy, (6) Industrial Policy, and (7) Trade Policy. We will try to understand the ways in which the actors and institutions identified in the first part of the semester affect the policy process across a variety of issue areas.
  aka-ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-537Politics-and-Policy-in-Contemporary-JapanSpring2003/CourseHome/index.htm - February 17, 2005

• Politics in Japan , University of Texas at Austin
  This course is designed to introduce upper level undergraduate students to the government and politics of postwar Japan. Topics to be addressed include the impact of the Allied Occupation on the development of postwar political institutions, the electoral and political party systems,interest groups, citizen protest and the role of women in politics, The government-business realtionship and the impact of industrial policy on economic growth, the policy making process, political corruption, the ongoing financial crisis, and the recent attempts to reform the political and economic systems.
  asnic-server.ans.utexas.edu:591/courses/FMPro?-db=cds.fp5&-format=drecord%5fdetail.htm&-lay=data-entry%20screen&-recid=36043&-findall= - September 20, 2004

• Politics in Japan , Hamilton College
  Explores the relationships among the state, business, and civil society in Japan. How "uncommon" is Japanese democracy? Which political, economic and social factors explain Japan's postwar economic growth and long-lasting political stability? What caused economic stagnation and frequent political crises since the early 1990s? The course will evaluate these questions with respect to past and current attempts to change or maintain the status quo by political leaders, government officials, business and labor associations, citizen groups and the media.
  www.hamilton.edu/academics/courses.html?dept=Government - August 19, 2004

• Politics of Japan , Concordia University
  This page provides a listing of course offerings, which include the Politics of Japan. The class focuses on the political development of Japan since the end of World War II. Emphasis is placed on Japanese modernization, post-industrial politics, national security and constitutional pacifism.
  artsandscience.concordia.ca/politicalscience/Courses_Description.html - August 5, 2004

• Politics of Japan , University of Alberta
  No course description at this site.
  www.arts.ualberta.ca/~eastasia/course_offerings.htm - September 22, 2004

• Politics of Japan , Bragg, Kaye
  This is a course in the government and politics of Japan.  We will briefly review Japanese history to the l950\'s with emphasis on the political culture and its development and on its geophysical and demographic characteristics.   We will then carefully explore the end of the Tokugawa (a period of self isolation under a powerful ruling Shogunate) and the search for a modern national identity.   We will give special attention to the traditional cultural practices as Japan\'s political leaders sought to accommodate them while economically,  militarily,  and politically modernizing.   Of special interest will be the evolving roles of men and women as traditional conceptions of self, family, and positional ascription became challenged by the drive to modernize the system.
  www.csubak.edu/~kbragg/poly307.htm - February 17, 2005

• Pyle, Kenneth B. , The National Bureau of Asian Studies
  Kenneth B. Pyle is Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Washington. He is Founding President of The National Bureau of Asian Research since 1989. He is the author and editor of numerous books on modern Japan and its history. Among his many articles and book chapters, he has recently co-authored with former Ambassador to Japan and President of the Brookings Institution Michael Armacost studies of Japan and the unification of Korea (1999) and of Sino-Japanese relations and the challenges posed for U.S. policy coordination (2001).
  jsis.artsci.washington.edu/cv/faccv/k-p/pyle.html - October 25, 2004

• Reimann, Kim D. , Reimann, Kim D.
  Kim D. Reimann, (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001) is an assistant professor of political science at Georgia State University, interested in international relations, comparative politics (Japan) and nonprofit organizations. Her research often relates to Japanese international developments.
  www.gsu.edu/~wwwpol/reimann.html - October 7, 2004

• Rix, Alan , University of Queensland
  Professor of Japanese Studies, Department of Japanese and Chinese Studies, University of Queensland Geographic Regions: APEC, Japan Research Areas: foreign aid, foreign relations and policy, government, political economy, politics (domestic issues), public policy and administration, regional economic cooperation
  www.uq.edu.au/ALS/alssl.html - December 8, 2004

• Russian-Japanese Relations Seminar , Akaha, Tsuneo
  This year Japan and Russia are commemorating the 150 years of diplomatic relations and the 100th anniversary of the Russo-Japanese War. Despite their status as two of the most important global powers, the two countries’ relations remain limited and constrained. Most observers blame this state of affairs on the absence of a peace treaty between Tokyo and Moscow due to the seemingly irreconcilable dispute over the group of islands lying between the two countries, known as “the Northern Territories” in Japan and as the “southern Kuriles” in Russia. While the importance of the territorial dispute cannot be overstated, there are other aspects to the bilateral relations that are often overlooked in contemporary discussions of those relations. In this seminar, we will take a comprehensive and in-depth look at Russo-Japanese relations, including historical, political, cultural, and economic factors.
  gsti.miis.edu/neas/syllabus/IP675SP05Syllabus.pdf - February 2, 2005

• Sakamoto, Takayuki , Southern Methodist University
  Professor, Southern Methodist University, Department of Political Science. Specializations: Japanese Politics, Comparative Political Economy of Industrial Countries, Comparative Politics.
  faculty.smu.edu/sakamoto/ - October 10, 2004

• Samuels, Richard J. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Richard J. Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies. He is also the Founding Director of the MIT Japan Program. In 2001 he became Chairman of the Japan-US Friendship Commission, an independent Federal grant-making agency that supports Japanese studies and policy-oriented research in the United States.
  web.mit.edu/polisci/faculty/R.Samuels.html - October 10, 2004

• Scheiner, Ethan , University of California, Davis
  Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Davis. CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS: Comparative Politics, Japanese Politics, Political Parties, Electoral Systems, Elections, Bureaucrat-Legislative Branch Relations.
  ps.ucdavis.edu/faculty/escheiner.html - October 10, 2004

• Schoppa, Leonard , University of Virginia
  Associate Professor, University of Virginia, Department of Politics. Specialization: Japanese Politics.
  www.people.virginia.edu/%7Eljs2k/ - October 10, 2004

• Schreurs, Miranda , University of Maryland
  Associate Professor, The Department of Government, Politics, University of Maryland. Professor Schreurs specializes in environmental politics and policy making in Japan, East Asia, and Europe. She teaches courses on Japanese and East Asian politics, German and European politics, environmental policy and law, and qualitative research methodology.
  www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/schreurs/ - October 10, 2004

• Selected Topics: Japanese Foreign Policy , George Washington University
  No course description at this site.
  www.gwu.edu/~eastasia/courses/grd_desc.htm - August 12, 2004

• Seminar on Japanese Political Thought , Thayer, Nathaniel B.
  Examines the political ideas that guide the Japanese state. Some of the questions to be discussed: What is the intellectual residue of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings? Is pacifism still a vital force in Japanese society? Do the Japanese see their politics as distinctive? Who decides what is in the interest of the common good? Is the concept of a Japanese-led Asia viable?
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/japan/japancourses.html - September 20, 2004

• Seminar on Post-War Japan , University of Victoria
  A close examination of a major issue on post-war Japan such as the Allied Occupation, the evolution of the labour movement, the post-war political economy, or Japan in the international division of labour. Consult instructor for specific topic.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2004/CDs/PACI/422.html - August 6, 2004

• Seminar: International Relations (US-Japan Relations) , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Pre-announced problems of both international organization and politics.
  www.catalog.hawaii.edu/courses/departments/pols.htm - September 18, 2004

• Seminar: Japanese Politics , Stanford University
  This seminar explores major theories used to explain the structure and dynamics of Japanese politics, including the developmental state, bureaucratic politics, interest group coalitions, single party domination, network theory, and rational choice. Student presentations are required part of the class.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/747/ - August 22, 2004

• Shinoda, Tomohito , International University of Japan
  Associate Professor, International Relations Program and Associate Professor, IUJ Research Institute Ph.D. in International Relations, Johns Hopkins University, 1994 Major Publications: Kantei no Kenryoku (Power of the Prime Minister's Office), 1996 Sori Daijin no Kenryoku to Shidoryoku (The Prime Minister's Power and Leadership), 1994, etc.
  www.iuj.ac.jp/web/iuj_section.cfm?item=130807 - October 6, 2004

• Shipper, Apichai , University of Southern California
  Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California Research Interests: Professor Shipper's research interests include Japanese politics, international migration, and political economy. His current work is dedicated to the exploration of the impact of the international mobility of labor on the development of civic activities and democratic institutions. He is also exploring a normative question on democratic representation based on similar life-experience as well as common ethnicity and an ethnographic inquiry on "long-distance" nationalism.
  www.usc.edu/assets/college/faculty/profiles/599.html - January 7, 2005

• Silberman, Bernard , University of Chicago
  Professor,Department of Political Science, University of Chicago Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: comparative bureaucratic and organizational structures, role of politics, political history
  catalogs.uchicago.edu/divisions/easian-cen-fac.shtml - January 6, 2005

• Sino-Japanese Relations Entering A New Stage , Yang, Bojiang
  Relationies inÊ between China and Japan have weathered 30 turbulent years since the normalization of diplomatic the 1972. During these three decades, developments of the Sino-Japanese Relations in all areas produced feracious results. The governments of the two countries seigned a series of important deocuments one after another, including the Joint Communique of the Government of Japna and teh Government of the People's Republic of China, the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of ChinaÊand the Japan-China Joint Declaration of Building a Partnership of Friendship and Cooperation for Peace and Development.ÊUp until today, the Sino-Japanese Relations have maintained the overall trend of constant development, paced by a relationship of friendship and cooperation. At the same time, however, wich the times and the turn of events, the Sino-Japanese Relations in the 21st century are going to be confronted with new issues and challenges as well as a range of opportunities. This paper provides a discussion of the possible developments in the Sino-Japanese relations in the new era.
  www.jiia.or.jp/pdf/shuppan/kokumon_e/514-yang.pdf - November 23, 2004

• Social Structure and Social Change in Japan , University of Victoria
  This course will concentrate upon the transformation of Japanese society from the early 19th century up to the end of World War II, paying particular attention to the interlocking themes of economic development and political and social change.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2004/CDs/PACI/321A.html - August 6, 2004

• Solis, Mireya , Solis, Mireya
  Mireya Solis comes to SIS from Brandeis University where she was an Assistant Professor in the Deparment of Politics. She received her PhD in Government (1998) from Harvard University. Having received numerous awards and a Fulbright Fellowship, Dr. Solis is the author of five articles and a number of book chapters in English and Spanish. Her book Banking on Multinationals: Public Credit and the Export of Japanese Sunset Industries, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University awarded her a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.
  www.american.edu/sis/faculty/facultybiographies/solis.htm - October 7, 2004

• Sorai, Mamoru , Tohoku University
  Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law, Public Law and Policy, Tohoku University Research: Politics, Postwar Japanese Political History
  www5.bureau.tohoku.ac.jp/e_detail/1000203034.html - February 17, 2005

• Special Topic in International Relations: Japan's International Relations , Australian National University
  This course explores the multi-faceted reality of Japan's international relations. In the past fifteen years, Japan has not kept silent in the region. How successful has it been in taking regional and global initiatives? And under what constraints does Japanese foreign policy operate? We will discuss and compare various evaluations of Japan's approach, taking note of its own perceptions, processes of decision-making, and newly emerging elements. The focus will be on challenging conventionally held views. Next, we will address Japan's regional relations, reviewing the examples of the East Asian Economic Caucus, the ASEAN Plus Three, and the latest, the contentious Council on East Asian Community. We will explore the extent of Japan's initiatives and the prospects for their success. The concept of human security and of humanitarian intervention will be probed as a focal example of Japan's voice in the international community.
  rspas.anu.edu.au/gsia/degree_prog.htm#INTR8018 - August 5, 2004

• Special Topics in Comparative Politics: Japanese Politics , Pollard, Vincent Kelly
  Course objectives: By the end of the semester and depending on your commitment, you will be able to do the following, hopefully with a greater degree of proficiency than on the first day: a) evince familiarity with Japanese governmental and nongovernmental politics; b) be aware of minor political currents which may be early indicators of bigger changes; c) while acknowledging that facts can be misleadingly be divorced from values, distinguish between descriptions of political reality in Japan and prescriptions for political action; d) appreciate the use of evidence in making political inferences about Japanese politics; e) demonstrate awareness of relevant stand-alone and networked information sources useful for empowering interested citizens of Japan as potential activists in their society; f) as part of a team, propose your own research topic on Japanese politics, articulate the key research questions and take the initial steps towards answering them; g) appreciate how history, geography, religion and language have shaped Japanese political choices; and h) have a sense of what people in the United States and elsewhere might distill, learn, modify and apply from the Japanese political experience as we envision alternative futures.
  library.kcc.hawaii.edu/external/asdp/polisci/easian/japan/pollard2.html - January 14, 2005

• Stockwin, J A A , Oxford University
  Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Oxford University Geographic Regions: Northeast Asia, Japan, Korea Research Areas: foreign relations and policy, politics (domestic issues)
  www.history.ox.ac.uk/staff/other/stockwin.htm - December 8, 2004

• Suzuki, Takaaki , Ohio University
  Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio University. His work is primarily in the field of international relations and comparative politics, with a regional focus on East Asia. Dr. Suzuki has conducted extensive research in Japan at the Ministry of Finance and the University of Tokyo through the funding of the Japan Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
  www.ohiou.edu/pols/faculty/suzuki.html - October 10, 2004

• Swenson-Wright, John , Cambrigde University
  Fuji Bank Lecturer in Modern Japanese Studies, Japan Research Centre, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge Geographic Regions: Japan, South Korea Research Areas: defense and security issues, foreign relations and policy, modern history, US policy toward Japan
  www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~jhs22/index.html - November 17, 2004

• Take, Reiko , Australian National University
  Reiko Take, BA (Hons), MA (Melb). Reiko is currently researching the relationship between the US-Japan alliance and Japanese perspectives of the international system, tentatively titled 'Japan and the US through a Hegemonic Lens'. She has just come back from fieldwork in Tokyo at the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo. Her research interests include Japanese foreign policy, issues of identity in Japan and the international relations of East Asia.
  rspas.anu.edu.au/ir/phd/take.html - October 28, 2004

• Tamamoto, Masaru , World Policy Institute
  Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute Geographic Regions: Northeast Asia, Japan Research Areas: US policy toward, cultural issues, defense and security, democracy and democratization, foreign relations and policy, ideology, modern history, nationalism, politics (domestic issues), socioeconomic and sociopolitical issues
  worldpolicy.org/wpi/tamamoto.html - December 8, 2004

• Tani, Satomi , Okayama University
  Political Science Division, Faculty of Law Okayama University Research Interests: Japanese politics, Japanese political party system, Japanese electoral system.
  www.law.okayama-u.ac.jp/%7Etani/tani_index_e.htm - October 10, 2004

• Taniguchi, Tomohiko , The Brookings Institution
  Expertise Japan political economy; Japan financial diplomacy; Japan defense strategy; US-Japan relations; China-Japan relations; Korea-Japan relations; ASEAN-Japan relations; China diplomacy; China economic policies; China defense strategy; North Korea WMD issues; "Six party" talks.
  www.brook.edu/scholars/fellows/ttaniguchi.htm - October 2, 2004

• The Japanese Political System , Vanderbilt University
  Study of the government and politics of Japan, in the context of the interaction of traditional and modern elements in contemporary Japanese political style. (Not currently offered)
  sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/east_asia/courses - August 26, 2004

• The US & Japan Encounters: Memories and Myths , University of Utah
  Addresses encounters between the United States and Japan, two of the world\\\'s greatest powers, from the 1850s to the present -- in periods of mutual cooperation and conflict -- through historical, political, and literary perspectives. Examines the role that American and Japanese national memories and myths play in affecting the relationship between these nations and, currently, in the Pacific rim.
  www.acs.utah.edu/GenCatalog/1028/crsdesc/pol_s.html - February 18, 2005

• Thies, Michael F. , University of California, Los Angeles
  Associate Professor Department of Political Science University of California, Los Angeles. Research interests: Japanese electoral and party systems Examples: A Comparative Theory of Electoral Incentives:Representing the Unorganized Under PR, Plurality, and Mixed-Member Electoral Systems . Journal of Theoretical Politics 15(1):5-32 (2003, w/ Kathleen Bawn). Keeping Tabs on Partners: The Logic of Delegation in Coalition Governments . American Journal of Political Science 45(3):580-598 (2001). The Electoral Foundations of Japan\'s Financial Politics: The Case of Jusen . Policy Studies Journal 29(1): 23-37 (2001, w/ Frances Rosenbluth).
  www.bol.ucla.edu/%7Ethies/ - October 13, 2004

• Tiberghien, Yves , University of British Columbia
  Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Department of Political Science. His research interests include: The process of state mediation of financial globalization, empirical focus on statist systems (Japan, Korea, France) and politics of corporate governance reforms. Japan: politics of economic reforms. Japan: the transformation of Japan's foreign policy. EU mediation of globalization: takeover reforms, global structural reforms, EU's emerging role as global standard setter. Politics of Biotechnology (focus on Genetically Modified Organisms): primary focus on Japan and the EU, secondary focus on Korea, other East Asian countries, Canada, US.
  www.politics.ubc.ca/tiberg/ - October 13, 2004

• Titus, David , Wesleyan University
  Professor, Department of Government, Wesleyan University Geographic Regions: Japan, China, Former Soviet Union Research Areas: politics (domestic issues), cultural issues
  www.wesleyan.edu/perl/ldap.pl/facstaff - December 26, 2004

• Totten, George , University of Southern California
  Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science, USC Korea Project, University of Southern California Research Interests: Professor Totten researches the system each of the Asian languages has developed for using Romanization and the advanatages of promoting their usage. He also studies ways of solving domestic and international problems by peaceful means, under the aegis of domestic and international law.
  www.usc.edu/assets/college/faculty/profiles/1560.html - January 6, 2005

• Trevorton, Gregory , RAND Corporation
  Senior policy analyst, RAND, Santa Monica, California Expertise: Intelligence, US-Foreign Relations, Europe, Japan, Korea
  www.rand.org/news/experts/treverton.html - January 7, 2005

• U.S.-Japan Relations in a Global Context , Calder
  Examines the emerging role of U.S.-Japan relations in the global political economy, emphasizing international finance and economic development. Gives special attention to Japan's changing role in East Asian regional affairs, particularly in relation to China and the Korean peninsula. The course typically involves substantial direct dialogue with policymakers, analysts and business leaders, both in the United States and Japan. Students are expected to write a policy-oriented research paper on economic, political, technological or security issues in U.S.-Japan relations, the best of which are published by the Reischauer Center in its annual briefing book.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/japan/japancourses.html - January 4, 2005

• Umemori, Naoyuki , Waseda University
  Professor, Department of Political Science, Waseda University, Japan Research Interests: History of modern Japanese political thought
  www.waseda.jp/seikei/english/faculty/pages/umemori-naoyuki-e.html - January 14, 2005

• United States-Japan Foundation , Sasakawa, Ryoichi
  The United States-Japan Foundation, incorporated under United States law in 1980, was founded with a grant of $44.8 million from the Japan Shipbuilding Industry Foundation (now known as the Nippon Foundation). Mr. Ryoichi Sasakawa (1899-1995), Chairman of the Japan Shipbuilding Industry Foundation, had the foresight to understand the great importance of the relationship between the United States and Japan to the two countries themselves and to the rest of the world. He thus established the Foundation to improve understanding between the two countries. The United States-Japan Foundation is the only private independent American grantmaking foundation dedicated to the mutual interests of the American and Japanese people.
  www.us-jf.org/ - January 27, 2005

• Uno, Takao , International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Specialized Fields: Archaeology, social history Current Research Themes: Studies of politics, economics, and religions based on historical spatial information.
  www.nichibun.ac.jp/research/staff1/UNO_Takao2_e.html - February 24, 2005

• US-Japan Relations in the Age of Globalization , Iriye, Akira
  The US-Japan relationship must now be understood within the framework of globalization. But what, exactly, does "globalization" mean? How can we better define globalization? How has the US-Japan relationship been transformed in the process of globalization? The health and viability of the bilateral relationship, therefore, would depend on the degree to which the two can cooperate, at both the governmental and societal level, in coping with the challenge fo further globalization. This task entails educational efforts as well as geostrategic coordination and economic interdependence. Unless this difficult task is carried out, the bilateral partnership may lose its significance.
  www.bookpark.ne.jp/cm/spfv/select_e.asp - November 9, 2004

• US/Japan Relations - WWII to the Present , Packard, George
  PDF of course syllabus for US/Japan Relations - WWII to the Present, Political Science G8876Y, available on this site.
  www.columbia.edu/cu/polisci/grad/main/courses/index.html#International%20Relations - February 17, 2005

• Vogel, Steven , University of California at Berkeley
  Research Interests: Japan, Comparative Politics, and Comparative and International Political Economy.
  ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/vogel.html - October 2, 2004

• Watanabe, Tsuneo , Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
  Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), Washington D.C. Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: foreign relations and policy, civil-military issues, politics (domestic issues)
  www.csis.org/experts/4watanab.htm - January 6, 2005

• Weiner, Robert , Cornell University
  Assistant Professor, Cornell University, Department of Government His research focuses on party, electoral, and legislative politics, both in Japan and in democracies more generally. His most recent work deals with collusive and otherwise non-competitive tendencies in nominally competitive party systems. Current Japan projects examine coalition politics in the Diet, the Liberal Democratic Party's inability to discipline its candidates, declines in electoral competition levels, and misuse of electoral systems as explanatory cure-alls.
  falcon.arts.cornell.edu/Govt/faculty/Weiner.html - October 13, 2004

• Welfield, John Barnett , International University of Japan
  Professor and Program Director, International Relations Program International University of Japan Research Interests: 1) International Relations in Eastern Eurasia, the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean area in the centuries before the appearance of the imperial Western powers 2) Japanese politics, diplomatic and military history -1945 3) Postwar Japanese political culture, foreign policy and defense 4) Contemporar political Australian politics and foreign policy.
  www.iuj.ac.jp/web/iuj_section.cfm?item=130807 - October 6, 2004

• White, James W. , University of North Carolina
  Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina His areas of special interest are comparative politics and collective behavior, with a strong emphasis on East Asia, especially Japanese politics. He is author of Sokagakkai and Mass Society (1970), Migration in Metropolitan Japan: Social Change and Political Behavior (1982), and Ikki: Social Conflict and Political Protest in Early Modern Japan (1995); coeditor of Social Change and Community Politics in Urban Japan (1976); translator of The Government and Politics of Japan (1994); and a contributor to The American Political Science Review and World Politics, inter al. He is presently engaged in a comparative study of the policy process in Tokyo and Paris.
  www.unc.edu/depts/polisci/faculty_pages/white.html - February 17, 2005

• Wolf, Thomas Phillip , Indiana University Southeast
  Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Division of Social Sciences, Indiana University Southeast Geographic Regions: Japan, US policy toward Research Areas: cultural issues, education policy, government, modern history, politics (domestic issues)
  homepages.ius.edu/TPWOLF/ - January 11, 2005

• Writing Seminar on Contemporary U.S.-Japan Relations
  The course is designed to assist students to conduct and in-depth reasearch and to write a policy-oriented research paper on the economics, politics, security and diplomacy, or social perceptions of U.S.-Japan relations. These papers will be reviewed and the best published as a part of the Reischauer Center annual briefing book.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/japan/japancourses.html - September 20, 2004

• Yasutomo, Dennis , Smith College
  Professor of Government, Department of Government Geographic Regions: Northeast Asia, Japan, US policy toward Research Areas: economic development, foreign aid, foreign relations and policy, government, human rights, political economy, politics (domestic issues), public policy and administration, trade and economic relations
  www.smith.edu/eas/fac_dyasutomo.html - January 6, 2005

• Yoshida, Masashi , Tohoku University
  Professor, Graduate School of Law, Law and Society, Research Fields: Japanese Legal History Research Subjects: History of Civil Procedure in Edo period. History of Criminal Law in Edo period. History of Justice in early Meiji period.
  www5.bureau.tohoku.ac.jp/e_detail/1000005888.html - February 17, 2005

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• Asian Nation Studies: Korea , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  This course examines Korea's historical experience as well as its contemporary institutions and issues by utilizing some of the most important works on Korea recently published as well as audio-visual aids.
  www.shaps.hawaii.edu/shaps/asia/320K.html - September 18, 2004

• Korea and Major Powers , Boston University
  Examines the current foreign relations of the two Korean states with a special focus on efforts to overcome the tensions on the peninsula.
  www.bu.edu/eas/courses.html - September 22, 2004

• Korea: From Seclusion to Division , Boston University
  Korea's development over the last century within the quadrangle of the surrounding four big powers: China, Russia, Japan, and the U.S. Focusing particularly on the country's division and chances of unification.
  www.bu.edu/eas/courses.html - September 22, 2004

• Korean Politics and Economy , Claremont McKenna College
  Compares the political systems and economic policies of South Korea and North Korea. Special attention will be given to an in-depth study of competing ideologies, political leadership, political participation, policy-making processes, military organizations, and economic performance.
  claremontmckenna.edu/admission/catalog/2003-2004/htmls/majors/government.asp#courses - August 12, 2004

• Modern Korea , The Australian National University
  The course will introduce students to the history of modern Korea, with a focus on Korean nationalism. The course is divided into three periods, the Early Modern Period (1800Ð1910), the Colonial Period (1905Ð1945), and the Era of Division (1945 to the present), and examines the chief internal and external forces which shaped the Korean nation up to the late 1980s.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6006.asp - August 9, 2004

• A Role for Russia in Korean Settlement , Wolf, David
  In the 1980s, it was all the rage for America to try and imitate the \"Japanese miracle\". In the 1990s the collapsed and rather chaotic former Soviet Union spoke longingly of the \"Chinese model\", a more orderly transition to the market mediated by the party elite still resolutely maintaining control of a few crucial institutions. Now, Moscow sources insist, the North Koreans are drawn to \"Russian structures\", where the \"power ministries\" dominate the agenda and the rich natural resource base is sufficient to keep a small elite well-fed. This makes some think that a Russian presence in the process could help broker the verifiable discontinuation of all North Korean WMD programs, if coupled to a plan to guarantee Pyongyang\'s security and a reliable source of energy in one form or another. North Korea would surrender all weapons of mass destruction and their components that may be on North Korean soil at the time that agreement comes into effect. Production programs will also be permanently terminated.
  www.ciponline.org/asia/reports/task_force/Wolff.htm - February 24, 2005

• Asia Program , Center for International Policy
  This website contains a substantial amount of information on political and economic developments of the Korean Peninsula.
  www.ciponline.org/asia/index.htm - February 24, 2005

• Asian Studies Seminar: Korea , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  This course is designed to introduce students to methods to interpret modern Korea through the various disciplines. On one level, it is a readings course that examines some of the most important books on twentieth century Korea published in the last ten years. On another level, it will explore from a disciplinary approach contemporary Korea. And through this, the course will introduce both bibliographic and research techniques to facilitate the study of Korea. Students will be expected to read and critique a number of books. Three book reviews of five pages each are expected. In addition, students will be asked to research several issues in the discipline of their choice and prepare a bibliographic essay on a topic in that discipline. Through this course, students should gain a broad-based content knowledge about Korea, a discipline-based approach to research on Korea, and knowledge of available resources to support study and research on Korea.
  www.hawaii.edu/shaps/asia/600K.html - January 13, 2005

• Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two Koreas , Noland, Marcus
  On the Korean peninsula one of the greatest success stories of the postwar era confronts a famine-ridden—and possibly nuclear-armed—totalitarian state. The stakes are extraordinarily high for both North and South Korea and for countries such as the United States that have a direct stake in these affairs. This study, the most comprehensive volume to date on the subject, examines the current situation in the two Koreas in terms of three major crises: the nuclear confrontation between the United States and North Korea, the North Korean famine, and the South Korean financial crisis. The future of the peninsula is then explored under three alternative scenarios: successful reform in North Korea, collapse and absorption (as happened in Germany), and \"muddling through\" in which North Korea, supported by foreign powers, makes ad hoc, regime-preserving reforms that fall short of fundamental transformation.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=94 - March 24, 2005

• Contentious Kwangju: The May 18 Uprising in Korea's Past and Present , Chin, Gi-Wook; Hwang, Kyung Moon eds.
  Through a deft combination of personal reflections and academic analysis, Contentious Kwangju offers a comprehensive examination of the multiple, shifting meanings of the May 18 Uprising and explains how the memory of Kwangju has affected Korean life from politics to culture.
  ksp.stanford.edu/publications/20792/ - February 22, 2005

• Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956 , Lankov, Andrei N.
  North Korea remains the most mysterious of all Communist countries. The acute shortage of available sources has made it a difficult subject of scholarship. Through his access to Soviet archival material made available only a decade ago, contemporary North Korean press accounts, and personal interviews, Andrei Lankov presents for the first time a detailed look at one of the turning points in North Korean history: the country's unsuccessful attempts to de-Stalinize in the mid-1950s. He demonstrates that, contrary to common perception, North Korea was not a realm of undisturbed Stalinism; Kim Il Sung had to deal with a reformist opposition that was weak but present nevertheless. Lankov traces the impact of Soviet reforms on North Korea, placing them in the context of contemporaneous political crises in Poland and Hungary. He documents the dissent among various social groups (intellectuals, students, party cadres) and their attempts to oust Kim in the unsuccessful "August plot" of 1956. His reconstruction of the Peng-Mikoyan visit of that year—the most dramatic Sino-Soviet intervention into Pyongyang politics—shows how it helped bring an end to purges of the opposition. The purges, however, resumed in less than a year as Kim skillfully began to distance himself from both Moscow and Beijing. The final chapters of this fascinating and revealing study deal with events of the late 1950s that eventually led to Kim's version of "national Stalinism." Lankov unearths data that, for the first time, allows us to estimate the scale and character of North Korea's Great Purge. Meticulously researched and cogently argued, Crisis in North Korea is a must-read for students and scholars of Korea and anyone interested in political leadership and personality cults, regime transition, and communist politics.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/book_review.htm#Lankov - February 15, 2005

• Diplomacy of Assymetry: Korean-American Relations to 1910 , Chay, Jong-suk
  This book contains a wealth of information on early Korean-American relations and offers valuable insights-especially into the role of public opinion in the foreign policy-making process and the influence of systemic change on diplomatic relations.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/book_review.htm#diplm - February 15, 2005

• Emerging Power for Change: Civil Society in Korea , Stanford University
  Won-soon Park, attorney and founder of the Beautiful Foundation and People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, will teach this seminar on the civil society movement in Korea, with particular reference to law. Open to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as law students.
  ksp.stanford.edu/courses/829/ - January 12, 2005

• Forgotten Lessons of Helsinki: Human Rights and U.S.-North Korean Relations , Feffer, John
  In developing a strategy toward North Korea, many human rights activists and members of U.S. Congress have mistakenly applied experiences drawn from East-West relations during the Cold War. The recent culmination of this strategy, the congressional passage of the North Korea Human Rights Act, has only compounded this mistaken interpretation. Unlike Eastern Europe or the Soviet Union of the 1970s and 80s, North Korea possesses no civil society, critical intelligentsia, or significant variant of "reform communism." There are no opportunities for civil society actors to connect with indigenous democratic movements. Furthermore, attempts to "link" any security or arms control deals with North Korea to improvements in the human rights realm -- as the recent legislation tries to do -- will likely result in neither greater security nor improved human rights conditions.
  ksp.stanford.edu/publications/20757/ - February 22, 2005

• Government and Politics of the Korean Peninsula , Merrill, John
  The course explores the political, economic, and social factors that have shaped the development of the two Koreas. Selected case studies on topics such as the Korean War, neo-authoritarian development, South Korea's democratization, the IMF crisis, etc. are used to illustrate broader socieal science themes.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/japanreadinglists/Korean%20PeninsulaMerrill.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Hwang, Balbina Y. , The Heritage Foundation
  Balbina Y. Hwang is policy analyst for Northeast Asia in the Asian Studies Center of The Heritage Foundation. Hwang, a native of Korea, is completing her PhD dissertation, titled "Globalization, Strategic Culture and Ideas: Explaining Continuity in Korean Foreign Economic Policy," at Georgetown University, where she also lectures on international relations and political economy. She was a Fulbright Scholar to South Korea in 1998-99 where she conducted doctoral dissertation field research. She has received several writing awards, including ones from the International Studies Association and the National Capital Area Political Science Association. Hwang is the editor of U.S. Korea Tomorrow, a quarterly magazine.
  www.heritage.org/About/Staff/BalbinaHwang.cfm - November 2, 2004

• Korea 2010 , Chamberlin, Paul F.
  Korea has been of enduring importance to Japan, China, Russia, and more recently, the United States, due to its location at the strategic crossroads of northeast Asia. Since the tragic division of the peninsula in 1945, South Korea has developed into a free democracy and an important part of the global economy. Now it is undergoing a major transformation from a managed economy to a market economy, from the industrial age to the \"knowledge era.\" Korea 2010 assesses the impact of rapid and accelerating developments in science and technology on South Korean society, economics, and politics, as well as alternative development paths to 2010. The study specifically addresses how six trends attending a society\'s transition to the knowledge era are playing out in Korea: Foundations (demography, environment, natural resources, and culture) Engines of history (science and technology, social and psychological processes) Human resources economy (empowering workers at all levels) Era of global tribes (globalization and tribalism) Rise of new authorities (impact on traditional hierarchies) Test of human psychology (information age anxieties)Korea 2010 provides a guide for those with commercial, diplomatic, security, social, or other interests in the development of this important country.
  csis.zoovy.com/product/0892063904 - February 1, 2005

• Korea after Kim Jong-il , Noland, Marcus
  Today\'s North Korean regime embodies elements of both communism and Confucian dynasty, is sovereign with respect to only part of the divided Korean nation, is vulnerable to pressure from external powers, and confronts incipient internal demands for change, yielding an unusually broad set of possible transition paths and successor regimes. Such path