17.486 | Fall 2016 | Graduate

Japan and East Asian Security

Course Description

This course explores Japan’s role in world orders, past, present, and future. It focuses on Japanese conceptions of security; rearmament debates; the relationship of domestic politics to foreign policy; the impact of Japanese technological and economic transformation at home and abroad; alternative trade and …
This course explores Japan’s role in world orders, past, present, and future. It focuses on Japanese conceptions of security; rearmament debates; the relationship of domestic politics to foreign policy; the impact of Japanese technological and economic transformation at home and abroad; alternative trade and security regimes; Japan’s response to 9/11; and relations with Asian neighbors, Russia, and the alliance with the United States.
Learning Resource Types
Written Assignments with Examples
A middle-aged man, wearing a blue suit, stands at a podium.
Shinzō Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, speaks at a Japan-European Union (EU) bilateral press conference at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 2017. (Image courtesy of the Cabinet Public Relations Office. Source: Wikimedia Commons. License CC BY.)