This course introduces and analyzes international regimes on trade, knowledge, information, monetary, security, environmental, telecommunications. Various topics pertaining to international regimes are covered in this course, including, but not limited to, interaction between nation-states and international regimes, comparative evaluation of international regime performance, the birth and evolution of international regimes.

This course studies the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the transformation of contemporary international relations. While examining major NGOs and their roles and development, this course equips students with knowledge about international relations theory and NGOs, the relations between the United Nations and NGOs, major powers and NGOs, developing regions and NGOs, and the NGOs and local-global interactions.

This course critically discusses and evaluate a wide range of international cooperation. Based on superb literature on international institutions, organizations, and regimes and taking both theory-driven and practice-driven approaches, this course addresses major issues concerning international cooperation and its accomplishment as well as limitations. Taking this course enables students to be formalized with background knowledge about designing, functioning, and institutionalizing of cooperation among states.

This course offers students with a survey of diplomatic interactions of modern nation-states. A particular attention is directed to major wars such as the Thirty Years’ War, Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second World Wars, and the Cold War. Specific case studies shall be employed to broaden students’ intellectual horizon, while international cooperation to prevent the outbreak of war shall also be examined in this course.

This course is designed to examines the international structure of communications. It discusses the relationship between communication and other structures of international relations, such as production, knowledge, and security, with a special focus on theories of international political communication, the US hegemony and international communication, emerging markets and international communication, ethical issues, and international communication in the information age.

This course surveys the international politics of environment and human rights. It explores historical, philosophical, and institutional backgrounds of environment and human rights issues. The following topics are covered: international organizations and environment/human rights, major powers and environment/human rights, and the developing countries responses to environmental and human rights issues.

This is an interdisciplinary course designed to help students equipped with analytical and critical evaluation of the relationship among religion, society, and politics. Focusing on its implication on intra-state/international conflict and conflict resolution, this course provides theoretical and conceptual tools that can be employed to understand the role of religion not only as a catalyst of conflict, but also as a stabilizer.

This course covers specialized topics in the relationship between technological development and international security.

The primary aim of this course is to examine the concept, practice, and implication of nationalism in international politics. It deeply investigates the linkage between national identity and nation-building, national pride and military mobilization, and nationalism and international conflict. By critically assessing contending theories about nationalism and their validity, this course enables students to deepen their understanding of the role and implication of nationalism in international relations.

This course offers an overview of major issues surrounding North Korea and regional security of East Asia. Topics that will be addressed in this course includes North Korea’s nuclear armament, international effort to build peace regime, the prospect of unification of Korean peninsula, etc. Scrutinizing not only the challenges that North Korea posed to regional stability of the region, but also major actors’ divergent rationale behind the scene, this course acquaints students with in-depth knowledge about North Korea and East Asian regional architecture.

This course covers specialized topics in international relations.

This course covers specialized topics in international relations.

This course covers specialized topics in international relations.

This course delves into a wide range of issues concerning international development and development cooperation. Guided by key concepts, definitions, and frameworks in development studies such as Official Development Assistance, OECD DAC, development regimes, this course helps students develop an in-depth understanding on thorny issues in international development and the implication of the foreign aid on development cooperation.

This course explores the politics and political system of the US and American conduct of world affairs, which many would agree have significant impact on the politics of other countries and international relations. By striving to analyze the US foreign policy from “inside-out” perspective, it primarily discusses domestic sources (governmental, political, and societal sources) of US foreign policy.

This course is designed to introduce students to the major theme and issues of Chinese politics and foreign policy. By offering a comprehensive understanding of Chinese politics and foreign policy, this course aims to help students find answers to questions of how Chinese foreign policy decision is made, how Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy are linked, what are the implications of China’s rise and Sino-U.S. rivalry in today’s international relations, etc.

This course is designed to enable students to understand some major topics regarding globalization and regional integration, by addressing various topics from the perspective of theoretical work in political science. It emphasizes the politics of globalization and regional integration including economic, cultural and/or other dimensions.

Terrorism has (re)emerged as a distinct feature of international politics since the Al Queda attack of 9/11. Based on case studies and existing literature, this course attempts to answer the following questions: Why do political actors employ terrorism? What is their goal? Why suicide bombs can be seen logical to certain actors? What should be done to combat terrorism? What if terrorist group acquires nuclear weapons?