Course Details
Country:
Japan
Institution:
Soka University
Course Title:
Introduction to International Relations
Course Number:
GG0704
Course Description:
* The lecture is based on the proposition that the ultimate purpose of state's policies, either domestic or foreign, is to maximize its national interests.
* The Part One of the lecture presents concepts widely employed in the study of world politics, and theories as simple propositions to explain state's behavior.
* The Part Two of the lecture looks into the history of Japan's modernization, and identifies post-war Japan's pacifism as its overwhelming characteristic as a state and a nation.
*(Based on the understanding that in the contemporary world, the U.S., China, Russia, the EU and the Islamic Middle East are the major actors which largely determine the current world order, or the lack of it,)
The Part Three presents Japan's foreign policy practices as ways for Japan to interface with these 5 actors in order to maximize its national interests.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
GOVT 444
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