2025/2026
Современная политика России в Азии
Статус:
Маго-лего
Кто читает:
Школа востоковедения
Где читается:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Когда читается:
1 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Писарев Александр Андреевич
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
36
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course concentrates on the several important problems and issues of Asian Studies that are fundamental for the deeper understanding of classical and modern development of East Asia and focuses on the major theoretical and practical issues and problems in Asian Studies as a discipline. The role of theory, both broadly and narrowly understood, in the social sciences and in Asian Studies in particular, will be clarified and their application to specific issues explained. A comparative area studies approach to learning encourages a broader, contextual understanding of the modern Asian development
Learning Objectives
- We will concentrate in several key issues that will be the capstone of understanding of cultural and social development of Asia: The new methodology of comparative approaches to the level of socio-economic development of East Asia. We will focus on significant cultural factors which played an enormous role in the great divergence Europe from Asia. The key problems of transformation of modern East Asian society including the anthropology of civilization, modernity and the state.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- By the end of the course the students are expected to be able to undertake a substantial research project through which to demonstrate their research and analytical skills and how well they can apply a given theoretical understanding and methodology to a set problem.
- By the end of the course the students are expected to be able to undertake a substantial research project through which to demonstrate their research and analytical skills and how well they can apply a given theoretical understanding and methodology to a set problem.
Course Contents
- Teaching Method and Research Methodology. USSR Foreign Policy During the Cold War and Asia
- Russian Foreign Policy after the Cold War and Asia
- China’s ‘Peaceful Rise’ And Russian-Chinese Relations
- Russia’s Relations with India and Japan
- Deterrence and Compliance in Korean Peninsular: North and South Koreas
- China-USA-Taiwan ‘Triangle’ Relations and Russia’s Impact
- Russia and International Economic and Security Institutions in Asia-Pacific Region
Assessment Elements
- Class presence and participation
- Essay
- Participation in oral presentationStudent activity in discussing the presentation
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 1st module0.6 * Essay + 0.2 * Class presence and participation + 0.2 * Participation in oral presentation
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Современная политика и международные отношения : сб. ст. по материалам науч. - практ. конф. молодых ученых ДА МИД России "Актуальные проблемы мировой политики: итоги и перспективы", прошедшей 25 ноября 2015 г., , 2016
- Современная политическая мысль (XX-XXI вв.) : политическая теория и международные отношения: учеб. пособие для вузов, Алексеева, Т. А., 2015
- Современная политическая наука. Методология, , 2019
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- "Большая Восточная Азия" : мировая политика и региональные трансформации : науч.- образоват. комплекс, Белокреницкий, В. Я., 2010
- "Большая Восточная Азия" : мировая политика и энергетическая безопасность, Воскресенский, А. Д., 2006
- "Новая холодная война" в Азии : глобальное и региональное измерение, , 2025
- Unanswered threats : political constraints on the balance of power, Schweller, R. L., 2006