Area Politics B (Politics of the Modern Korea )
Faculty
M. Kimiya
Description
(1) Geopolitics surrounding the Korean Peninsula
(2) Linkages between the global cold war and the Korean cold war
(3) The export-led industrialization strategy by the developmental state
and the response to the economic globalization
(4) The persistence of the authoritarian regime, its transition to democracy
and its consolidation
In this lecture, we try to understand the Korean political, economic and diplomatic dynamism as the transformation from the cold war-developmental dictatorship to the post cold war-market democracy by focusing upon the above-mentioned four approaches.
The syllabus of the lecture is as follows.
1 Introduction
2 The origins of the Korean cold war
3 The studies of the Korean War
4 North and South Korea in 1950s: Rhee Syngman and Kim Ilsung
5 The establishment of Park Chung Hee regime and the Third Republic
6 The political dynamics of Korean economic development
7 Korea-Japan relations in the North and South Korean politics
8 The escalation and rapprochement of the Asian cold war and its impacts
on Korea
9 The politics of the Yushin authoritarian regime and its theoretical implications
10 The New Cold War and its impacts on Korea
11 The transition from the authoritarian regime to the democratic regime
12 The end of the cold war and its impacts on the Korean cold war
13 Korean politics in the comparative perspectives
I give lectures by distributing the resume every time. By utilizing the videos, diplomatic and law documents, I try to help the students understand Korean politics interestingly. Students will be assigned their reports related to the lectures more than five times in addition to the term examination.