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Southeast Asia and the Great Powers- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Howard Loewen
- Details
- Proseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies
für Anfänger geeignet, Bachelor, Sprache Englisch, 4 ECTS (alte PO), 5 ECTS (neue PO); Achtung: Beginn erst in der 2. Semesterwoche!
Time and place: Thu 10:15 - 11:45, KH 2.012
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Die regelmäßige Teilnahme ist für alle Studierende verpflichtend. Leistungsnachweis: Referat und Hausarbeit.Die Anmeldung für die Veranstaltung erfolgt ausschließlich in der ersten Sitzung.
- Contents
- A well-established view or perception of the international relations in East Asia holds that the United States initiated a strategical reorientation towards Asia (“Pivot to Asia”) as a reaction to the economic and military rise of China. This strategy intensified an ever growing great power competition in the region. In this great power competition, so the argument, the “small” Southeast Asian states are seen as pawns in the game, a strategic game which is ruled and played by the great powers China and the U.S. In other words: the Southeast Asian states define their foreign and security preferences in alignment with the interests of the two great powers, yet without actively articulating their national interests.
According to neo-realism, a major theory of international relations, that is closely linked to the above narrative, small and medium sized states under the condition of structural power imbalances are left with only two foreign policy cooperation strategies: the first one is Balancing, the compensation of a systemic power shift (such as the rise of China) by the creation of alliances. The second one is Bandwagoning, the close cooperation of weak states with powerful ones.
Against this background this seminar seeks to answer the following questions: Are Southeast Asian states or rather the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) doomed merely to react with regard to systemic pressures of great power competition? Do they as a matter of fact resort merely to balancing or bandwagoning in their foreign policy behavior?
- Recommended literature
- Fröhlich, Stefan / Loewen, Howard (2017). The Changing East Asian Security Landscape: Challenges, Actors and Governance (Edition ZFAS). Springer VS: Wiesbaden; He, K., & Feng, H. F. (2008). If not soft balancing, then what? reconsidering soft balancing
and U.S. policy toward China. Security Studies, 17(2), 363–395; Tow, W. T., & Taylor, B. (2010). What is Asian security architecture? Review of InternationalStudies, 36(1), 95–116.
- ECTS information:
- Title:
- Südostasien und die Großmächte Credits: 5
- Additional information
- Expected participants: 15, Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Die Registration via: persönlich beim Dozenten
- Department: Department of Political Science
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