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Storia dell'Asia orientale e sud-orientale
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI "L'ORIENTALE"
Dati Generali
Periodo di attività
Syllabus
Obiettivi Formativi
EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES.
-Knowledge of major events in the diplomatic history of modern and contemporary Japan.
-Understanding of Japan's regional and global role in the 20th and 21th centuries.
-Understanding of the dynamics that influenced Japan's interaction with regional and extra-regional actors.
ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
The course is intended to provide students with the tools necessary to:
- conduct textual analysis of primary sources related to the topics covered in the course.
- analyze Japan's regional and global role from a long-term perspective.
- perform critical commentary of secondary sources related to the main topics covered in the course.
ADDITIONAL EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Autonomy of judgment:
-enhancement of critical thinking.
-ability to independently handle the tools of the historian's craft.
-Empowerment of critical and divergent thinking skills.
Communication skills:
-ability to speak in public.
-ability to communicate with appropriate specialized language the content learned, in written and oral form.
Learning skills:
-ability to critically rework learned content.
-ability to elaborate and defend one's own theses within a debate, with logically coherent and persuasive reasoning.
-ability to work in groups.
Prerequisiti
PREREQUISITES Prerequisite: knowledge of the main events and institutions in the modern and contemporary history of Japan; important: knowledge of the main events and processes in the history of international relations in the 19th-20th centuries; useful: knowledge of the theories of International Relations. PROPAEDEUTICITIES None.
Metodi didattici
20 hours of lecture-based teaching
2 hours of learning assessment
4 hours of practical workshops
28 hours of seminar-based instruction
Verifica Apprendimento
Testi
Students attending the course:
-Takashi Inoguchi, Japan’s International Relations at the Crossroads: Wars, Globalization and Japanese Theorizings in the Extended Twentieth Century, Peter Lang, 2021.
-Articles read during the course.
Students not attending the course:
-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 (Third edition), 2011.
Contenuti
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 evolution.
The course will be divided into the following modules:
Module A: methodological introduction
Module B: Japanese diplomatic history (1860-1945).
Module C: Japan in the Bipolar Era
Module D: Women in Japanese International Relations
Module E: Japan in the post-bipolar era
Module F: Themes and Problems in Japanese Foreign Policy
Students with a 6-credit program (36 hours): module A+B+C Students with an 8-credit program (48 hours): module A+B+C+D+E Students with a 9-credit program (54 hours): module A+B+C+D+E+F