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0000457 - JAPAN AND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM

insegnamento
ID:
0000457
Durata (ore):
54
CFU:
9
SSD:
STORIA DELL'ASIA ORIENTALE E SUD-ORIENTALE
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Dettaglio Insegnamento:
Lingue e culture dell'Asia e dell'Africa/Percorso Comune Anno: 1
Anno:
2025
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Dati Generali

Periodo di attività

Secondo Semestre (23/02/2026 - 29/05/2026)

Syllabus

Obiettivi Formativi

EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES

- Knowledge of the main events in the diplomatic history of modern and contemporary Japan.

- Understanding of Japan's regional and global role in the twentieth and eleventh centuries.

- Understanding of the dynamics that have influenced Japan's interaction with regional and extra-regional actors.

ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

The course aims to provide students with the necessary tools to:

- carry out a textual analysis of primary sources related to the topics covered during the course.

- Analyze Japan's regional and global role in the long term.

- make a critical comment on the secondary sources related to the main topics covered in the course.

 

FURTHER EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES

Making judgements:

- strengthening of the critical sense.

- ability to independently manage the tools of the historian's trade.

- enhancement of the ability to think critically and divergently.

 

Communication skills:

- Public speaking skills.

- ability to communicate the contents learned, in written and oral form, with an appropriate specialized language.

 

Learning skills:

- ability to critically rework the contents learned.

- ability to elaborate and defend one's own theses within a debate, with logically coherent and persuasive reasoning.

- ability to work in a team.



Prerequisiti

PREREQUISITES

Indispensable: knowledge of the main events and institutions of the modern and contemporary history of Japan; important: knowledge of the main events and processes in the history of international relations of the nineteenth-twenty-first century; useful: knowledge of the theories of International Relations.

PREPARATORY COURSES NEEDED

None.



Metodi didattici

The course will have a seminar setting. After a series of lectures that will aim to historically frame the topics covered during the course, students will be asked to read and discuss primary and secondary sources related to the topics of the course in class. The teaching hours will be divided as follows:

 

16 hours of lectures

2 hours of learning tests

2 hours of workshop

28 hours of seminar teaching



Verifica Apprendimento

Oral test with an optional written test.


The questions in the optional written test are open-ended.

Language of the examination: English.

Evaluation criteria: ability to critically analyze the main events in the diplomatic history of modern and contemporary Japan and place them in the relevant time frame; ability to expound the content learned with specialized vocabulary; active participation in classroom discussions.




Testi

Attending students:

Takashi Inoguchi, Japan’s International Relations at the Crossroads: Wars, Globalization and Japanese Theorizings in the Extended Twentieth Century, Peter Lang, 2021.

Additional material will be provided during classes.

Non attending students:

Takashi Inoguchi, Japan’s International Relations at the Crossroads: Wars, Globalization and Japanese Theorizings in the Extended Twentieth Century, Peter Lang, 2021.

G. Hook, G., Gilson, J. Hughes, C.W., H. Dobson, Japan’s International Relations. Politics, Economics and Security, London and New York, Routledge (terza edizione), 2011



Contenuti

1. Japan in the Sino-centric regional order.

2. The fracture of the East Asian regional order and the arrival of Western powers: from the first Opium War to the invasion of Manchuria.

3. Japan-centered regional order (1931-1945): from ascent to ashes.

4. Japan after 1945: the “hub and spokes” system and the Yoshida Doctrine.

5. Japan-United States relations: from the US-Japan Security treaty to the post-bipolar order.

6. Japan’s Asia diplomacy: from the Cold war constraints to the trilateral cooperation.

7. Japan-Europe relations.

8. Japanese diplomacy in the post-bipolar world order.

9. Japan’s security policies after the end of Cold war.

10. The “Free and open Indo-Pacific” initiative: aims and future scenarios.



Lingua Insegnamento

English


Altre informazioni

International students are very welcome.


Corsi

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Lingue e culture dell'Asia e dell'Africa 
Laurea Magistrale
2 anni
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LANNA Noemi
AREA MIN. 10 - Scienze dell'antichita,filologico-letterarie e storico-artistiche
Settore ASIA-01/H - Storia dell'Asia orientale e sud-orientale
Gruppo 10/ASIA-01 - CULTURE E LINGUE DELL'ASIA CENTRALE, MERIDIONALE, ORIENTALE E SUD-ORIENTALE
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