| Description | The Asia-Pacific region faces a matrix of security challenges that are seemingly unique in the early part of the 21st century. This unit will examine whether a new security dilemma is emerging in Asia commensurate with the rise of China and India as two potential superpowers by 2050, and it will assess the major strategic drivers pertinent to the Asia-Pacific. The combination of regional security challenges to be examined in this unit include: the strategic relationships between the United States, China and Japan; the potential for conflict on the Korean peninsula, in the Taiwan Strait; concerns about nuclear proliferation; extremist violence by Muslims and others in Southeast Asia; and inadequate systems of governance in some South Pacific countries. The overall objective of the unit is to engage with issues and arguments about security that relate specifically to the Asia-Pacific region. Teaching and learning take place via a combination of lectures, student-led seminars, independent research, debates and case studies. |
