Asian Strategies

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What are the grand strategies and national security aims of leading Asian governments? How do their military, diplomatic, economic, and technology policies serve their national interests? How do they reconcile conflicting goals and make tradeoffs? These questions are the heart of this mini-course, focusing on some of the most problematic, consequential, and promising regional states: North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan, and India. While all these actors have a rich history, they were reborn within five years after 1945, with the conclusion of the Second World War, the division of the Korean Peninsula, the partition and independence of India, and the founding of the People's Republic of China. The course will culminate in a discussion of strategic convergences and divergences, as well as the implications of national strategies for regional and global peace and stability.