| I. Historical and theoretical background |
| 1 | Japan and the old world orders Modernizing Japan, imperial Japan, and client Japan. Relations between Japan and the great powers past and present: China, Russia, Great Britain, and the United States. | Required readings  Suganami, Hidemi. "Japan's Entry into International Society." Chapter 12 in The Expansion of International Society. Edited by Hedley Bull and Adam Watson. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780198219972.
Pyle, Kenneth B. Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose. New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2008, chapters 1-4. ISBN: 9781586485672. Suggested readings Barnhardt, Michael A. Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for National Security, 1919-1941. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780801495298. [P] Dudden, Alexis. Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780824828295. [P] Morley, James William, ed. Japan Erupts: The London Naval Conference and the Manchurian Incident, 1928-1932. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780231057820. [P] Ike, Nobutaka. Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1967. ISBN: 9780804703055. [P] Lim, Robyn. The Geopolitics of East Asia. London, UK: Routledge, 2005. ISBN: 9780415360302. [P] Mahan, Alfred Thayer. The Problem of Asia and Its Effect Upon International Policies. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003. ISBN: 9780765805249. |
| 2 | Japan and old new world orders Can we derive lessons from the creation of previous world orders? Does IR theory help? How do they each apply to Japanese history? | Required readings Iriye, Akira. Japan and the Wider World: From Mid-nineteenth Century to the Present. London, UK: Longman, 1997, chapters 1-7. ISBN: 9780582210530. Pyle, Kenneth B. Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose. New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2008, chapters 5-6. ISBN: 9781586485672. Gilpin, Robert. War and Change in World Politics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 25-49 and chapters 3-4. ISBN: 9780521273763. Jervis, Robert. "Security Regimes." International Organization 36, no. 2 (1982): 357-378. Alagappa, Muthiah. "International Politics in Asia: The Historical Context." Chapter 2 in Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences. Edited by Muthiah Alagappa. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780804733472. Samuels, Richard J. Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008, chapter 1. ISBN: 9780801474903. Suggested readings Jervis, Robert. "From Balance to Concert: A Study of International Security Cooperation." In Cooperation Under Anarchy. Edited by Kenneth Oye. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986, pp. 58-79. ISBN: 9780691022406. Kindleberger, Charles. "The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe, 1820-1875." Journal of Economic History 35, no. 1 (1975): 20-55. Bull, Hedley. The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics. 3rd ed. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780231127639. [P] Jack Snyder. Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993, chapters 4 and 8. ISBN: 9780801497643. [P] |
| 3 | Conceiving security, grand strategy, and technology How are doctrine, technology and national security linked? What is the origin of national security strategy? What is the strategic relationship of the military and civilian economies? | Required readings Johnston, Alistair Iain. "Thinking about Strategic Culture." International Security 19, no. 4 (1995): 32-64. Alagappa, Muthuiah. "Rethinking Security: A Critical Review and Appraisal of the Debate." Chapter 1 in Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences. Edited by Muthiah Alagappa. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780804733472. Gilpin, Robert. War and Change in World Politics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008, chapter 6. ISBN: 9780521273763. Samuels, Richard J. "Rich Nation, Strong Army": National Security and Japan's Technological Transformation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996, chapter 1. ISBN: 9780801499944. Brooks, Stephen G. Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007, chapters 1-4. ISBN: 9780691130316. Suggested readings Huntington, Samuel P. "America's Changing Strategic Interests." Survival 33, no. 1 (1991): 3-17. McNeill, William H. The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1982. ISBN: 9781597402903. [P] Nef, John U. War and Human Progress. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1968. ISBN: 9780393004687. [P] List, Friedrich. The National System of Political Economy. Vol. 1. New York, NY: Cosimo Classics, 2006. ISBN: 9781596059528. [P] ———. The National System of Political Economy. Vol. 2. New York, NY: Cosimo Classics, 2005. ISBN: 9781596055438. [P] ———. The National System of Political Economy. Vol. 3. New York, NY: Cosimo Classics, 2005. ISBN: 9781596055445. [P] |
| II. Inside the Japanese system |
| 4 | Domestic politics and Japanese security Domestic institutions of defense policymaking and diplomacy. To what extent do values, norms, and ideas drive strategic choices in Japan? And where do they come from? Do they shape institutions or are they shaped by them? | Required readings Katzenstein, Peter J. Cultural Norms and National Security: Police and Military in Postwar Japan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996, chapters 2 and 3. Samuels, Richard J. "Rich Nation, Strong Army": National Security and Japan's Technological Transformation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996, chapter 9. ISBN: 9780801499944. Shibuichi, Daiki. "The Yasukuni Shrine Dispute and the Politics of Identity in Japan: Why All the Fuss?" Asian Survey 45, no. 2 (2005): 197-215. Wakamiya, Yoshibumi, and Tsuneo Watanabe. "Yasukuni, War Responsibility, and Japan's Diplomacy." Japan Echo 33 (April 2006): 10-15. Soeya, Yoshihide. "Japan: Normative Constraints versus Structural Imperatives." Chapter 5 in Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences. Edited by Muthiah Alagappa. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780804733472. Suggested readings Green, Michael J. "State of the Field Report: Research on Japanese Security Policy." AccessAsia Review 2, no. 1 (September 1998). Hughes, Llewelyn. "Why Japan Won't Go Nuclear (yet) — an Examination of the Domestic and International Constraints on the Nuclearization of Japan." International Security 31, no. 4 (2007): 67-96. Mochizuki, Mike M. "Japan Tests the Nuclear Taboo." Nonproliferation Review 14, no. 2 (2007): 303-328. Kamiya, Matake. "Nuclear Japan: Oxymoron or Coming Soon?" The Washington Quarterly 26, no. 1 (Winter 2002-2003): 63-75. Swaine, Michael D., et al. Japan and Ballistic Missile Defense. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2001. ISBN: 9780833030207. |
| 5 | Japan's security policy How have bureaucrats and politicians interacted and how have they maintained control of the Japanese military? | Required readings Feaver, Peter E. "The Civil-Military Problematique: Huntington, Janowitz, and the Question of Civilian Control." Armed Forces and Society 23 (1996): 149-178. Frühstück, Sabine, and B. A. Eyal. "'Now We Show It All!' Normalization and the Management of Violence in Japan's Armed Forces." The Journal of Japanese Studies 28, no. 1 (2002): 1-40. Samuels, Richard J. Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008, chapters 2-5. ISBN: 9780801474903. Watanabe, Tsuneo. "The Bankruptcy of Civil-Military Relations in Japan." NIRA Review, Summer 1996. Suggested readings Huntington, Samuel P. The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil Military Relations. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981. ISBN: 9780674817364. [P] Janowitz, Morris. The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait. New York NY: Free Press, 1964. ISBN: 9780029161807. [P] Maxon, Yale Candee. Control of Japanese Foreign Policy: A Study of Civil-Military Rivalry, 1930-1945. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1973. ISBN: 9780837167282. [P] Frühstück, Sabine. Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780520247956. [P] Yoshida, Shigeru. The Yoshida Memoirs: The Story of Japan in Crisis. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1973. ISBN: 9780837167336. |
| 6 | Japan's foreign economic policy What are the instruments and institutions of Japanese foreign economic policy? How are trade and aid linked to security and grand strategy? | Required readings Pempel, T. J. "Introduction: Emerging Webs of Regional Connectedness." Chapter 1 in Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region. Edited by T. J. Pempel. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780801489099. MacIntyre, Andrew, and Barry Naughton. "The Decline of a Japan-Led Model of the East Asian Economy." Chapter 4 in Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region. Edited by T. J. Pempel. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780801489099. Tsunekawa, Keiichi. "Why So Many Maps There? Japan and Regional Cooperation." Chapter 5 in Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region. Edited by T. J. Pempel. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780801489099. Tachiki, Dennis. "Between Foreign Direct Investment and Regionalism: The Role of Japanese Production Networks." Chapter 6 in Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region. Edited by T. J. Pempel. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780801489099. Suggested readings Putnam, Robert. "Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games." International Organization 42, no. 3 (1988): 427-460. Shaplen, Jason T., and James Laney. "Washington's Eastern Sunset: The Decline of U.S. Power in Northeast Asia." Foreign Affairs 86, no. 1 (2007): 82-97. Cha, Victor D. "Winning Asia: Washington's Untold Success Story." Foreign Affairs 86, no. 1 (2007): 98-113. |
| III. Japan and the world system |
| 7 | The US alliance: a bilateral view How do U.S.-Japan bilateral relations shape Japan's strategic choices? How do Japan and the United States balance political, military, economic, and technological interests without one another? | Required readings Morgenthau, Hans J. Politics Among Nations. 5th rev. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972, pp. 188-204. ISBN: 9780394481333. Samuels, Richard J. Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008, chapters 6 and 7. ISBN: 9780801474903. Smith, Sheila A. Shifting Terrain: The Domestic Politics of the U.S. Military Presence in Asia. Honolulu, HI: East-West Center Special Reports, no. 8, March 2006. ISBN: 9780866382038. Ina, Hisayoshi. "Implementing the SACO and Revising the SOFA." In The Okinawa Question and the U.S.-Japan Alliance. Edited by Akikazu Hashimoto, Mike Mochizuki, and Kurayoshi Takara. Washington, DC: The Sigur Center for Asian Studies, 2005, pp. 41-50. ISBN: 9780976528302. National Institute for Defense Studies, ed. East Asian Strategic Review, 2008. Tokyo, 2008, chapter 7. Skim Armitage, Richard, et al. "The United States and Japan: Advancing Toward a Mature Partnership." INSS Special Report. Washington, DC: Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, 2000. ( PDF) Clemons, Steven C. "The Armitage Report: Reading Between the Lines." JPRI Occasional Paper, no. 20. San Francisco, CA: Japan Policy Research Institute, University of San Francisco, February 2001. Suggested readings Armacost, Michael H. Friends or Rivals? The Insider's Account of US-Japan Relations. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780231104883. [P] Price, John. "A Just Peace? The 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty in Historical Perspective." JPRI Working Paper, no. 78. San Francisco, CA: Japan Policy Research Institute, University of San Francisco, February 2001. |
| 8 | China, Korea, and Southeast Asia: the regional view From the Guam to the Fukuda to the Koizumi Doctrines and beyond. Japanese relations with its neighbors. Collective security and confidence building in Northeast, East and Southeast Asia. The rise of China, the Northern Territories, Korean Unification, the DPRK. | Required readings Mearsheimer, John. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2003, chapter 10. ISBN: 9780393323962. [P] Lim, Robyn. The Geopolitics of East Asia. London, UK: Routledge, 2005, introduction, chapter 6, and conclusion. ISBN: 9780415360302. [P] Pinkston, Daniel A., and Kazutaka Sakurai. "Japan Debates Preparing for Future Preemptive Strikes against North Korea." The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis 18, no. 4 (2006): 95-121. Mochizuki, Mike M. "Japan's Shifting Strategy Toward the Rise of China." The Journal of Strategic Studies 30, no. 4-5 (2007): 739-776. Suggested readings "Japan's Comprehensive China Strategy." PHP Report, February 2008. (PDF) Jervis, Robert. "Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma." World Politics 30, no. 2 (1978): 167-214. Kang, David. "Getting Asia Wrong." International Security 27, no. 4 (2003): 57-85. Tanaka, Akihiko. "Global and Regional Geostrategic Implications of China's Emergence." Asian Economic Policy Review 1, (2006): 180-196. Cha, Victor. Alignment Despite Antagonism: The U.S.-Korea- Japan Triangle. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780804731928. [P] Alagappa, Muthiah, ed. Chapters on National Security Strategies in China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore in Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences. Edited by Muthiah Alagappa. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780804733472. Vaughn, Bruce, et al. "U.S. Strategic and Defense Relationships in the Asia -Pacific Region." CRS Report for Congress, January 22, 2007. Jones, David Martin, and Michael L. R. Smith. "Making Process, Not Progress: ASEAN and the Evolving East Asian Regional Order." International Security 32, no. 1 (2007): 148-184. |
| 9 | Japan's global role Japan and the United Nations, ODA. The Gulf War, UN peacekeeping, anti-terrorism campaign, and Iraq. Resource diplomacy. | Required readings Bull, Hedley. The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics. 3rd ed. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2002, chapters 9 and 10. ISBN: 9780231127639. Hughes, Christopher W. "Japan's Reemergence as a "Normal" Military Power." Adelphi Paper 368-9. London, UK: Institute for International Strategic Studies, 2004. Samuels, Richard J. Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008, chapter 8. ISBN: 9780801474903. Mochizuki, Mike M. "Japan Tests the Nuclear Taboo." Nonproliferation Review 14, no.2 (2007): 303-328. Suggested readings Advisory Group on Defense Issues, ed. "The Modality of the Security and Defense Capability of Japan: The Outlook for the 21st century." Tokyo, August 1994. (Note: This group was appointed by former Prime Minister Hosokawa to review Japan's strategic posture after the Cold War. Its report was completed after Prime Minister Hosokawa left office.) Ozawa, Ichiro. Blueprint for a New Japan. New York, NY: Kodansha, 1994. ISBN: 9784770018717. [P] |
| IV. Analysis and prognostication |
| 10 | Briefings/scenarios (bilateral) | No readings |
| 11 | Briefings/scenarios (regional) | No readings |
| 12 | Briefings/scenarios (global) | No readings |
