The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University DHP D271: International Relations of the U.S. and East Asia: 1945 to the Present Spring 2021 Professor Sung-Yoon Lee Cabot 501. Email: [email protected] Tel: (617) 627-4307 Office hours: Mon 4:00 to 5:00 PM; Tue 1:30 to 3:30 PM; or by appointment Staff Assistant: Ms. Lupita Ervin. [email protected] An examination of the international relations of the United States and East Asia since the end of World War II, principally U.S. interactions with China, Japan, Korea, and secondarily, with Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Focus on fundamental concepts and realities of international politics that have governed the interaction between the U.S. and East Asian nations, as well the major geopolitical issues of the present day. A study of the continuing patterns of interaction among the U.S. and East Asian states— the dynamics of wars, ideologies, and economic and cultural encounters. In the long- term, what are the cultural ramifications of the rise of the United States of America in the modern era, its expansion into East Asia, and the concomitant multi-layered encounters with the different cultures of East Asia? And what does the rise of industrial East Asia over the past half century imply? What might be the role of the United States in this unprecedented phenomenon, as well as in contemporary international politics of the region? The course attempts to examine the elusive-but-omnipresent undercurrents of international relations; that is, to identify how ethnic identity and culture coincide—or conflict—with international relations General Requirements: 1. Final paper (10 double-spaced pages; 40% of final grade), due 11:59 PM, May 7. 2. Take-home final exam, due 11:59 PM, May 3 (30%). 3. Oral presentation, attendance, and class participation (30%). Students have the option of writing a 20 page final paper in lieu of the oral presentation. Books recommended for the course: • Dower, John W. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. • Mann, James. About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China: From Nixon to Clinton. New York: Knopf, 1999. • Stueck, William. The Korean War: An International History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. • Tyler, Patrick. A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative History. New York: Century Foundation, 1999. • Bell, Daniel A. East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. DHP D271 Spring 2021 Jan 20 Introduction to the course Jan 25 1945: A New Order in East Asia Jan 27 U.S.-Soviet Rivalry and Containment Feb 1 China’s Civil War and the U.S. “Loss” of China Feb 3 The Korean Peninsula and the American Military Government Feb 8 The U.S. Occupation of Japan Feb 10 The Korean War Feb 15 Presidents’ Day. No classes. Feb 16 (Tue) The International Implications of the Korean War Feb 17 The Geneva Convention and the Bandung Conference Feb 22 Film viewing: “Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam.” One- page response paper due Feb 24 Feb 24 The Vietnam War Mar 1 Japan: Policy of Peace and Prosperity Mar 3 Security Challenges in the Korean Peninsula Mar 8 The Strategic Triangle and the Sino-Soviet Split Mar 10 Sino-U.S. Relations: An Odd Couple Mar 15 U.S.-Japan Relations: Friction and Compromise Mar 17 Anti-U.S. Sentiments in East Asia Mar 22 Southeast Asia Mar 29 The North Korean Nuclear Threat Mar 31 The International Politics of Northeast Asia April 5 Democracy and Human Rights in East Asia April 7, 12, 14, 21: Student Oral Presentations April 26 Review. Final class DHP D271 Spring 2021 Reading Assignments To be completed by: Jan 20 (Introduction to the course). Optional reading. • Gilbert Rozman, “The East Asian Region in Comparative Perspective,” in Gilbert Rozman, ed., The East Asian Region: Confucian Heritage and Its Modern Adaptation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), 3-42. Jan 25 (1945: A New Order in East Asia) • John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (New York: Pantheon Books, 1986), 293-317. • John W. Dower, “The Bombed: Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japanese Memory,” in Philip West et al. eds., America’s Wars in Asia: A Cultural Approach to History and Memory (Armonk, NY: A.E. Sharpe, 1998), 27-42. • Paul Boyer, “Exotic Resonances: Hiroshima in American Memory,” in Diplomatic History (Spring, 1995). • J. Samuel Walker, “History, Collective Memory, and the Decision to Use the Bomb,” ibid. Jan 27 (U.S.-Soviet Rivalry and Containment) • Michael H. Hunt, Crises in US Foreign Policy: An International History Reader (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 112-169. • Alan Collins, The Security Dilemma and the End of the Cold War (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 9-24, 91-109. • Michael Yahuda, The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific, 1945- 1950 (London: Routledge, 1996), 1-38. • Thomas H. Etzold and John Lewis Gaddis, Containment: Documents on American Policy and Strategy, 1945-1950 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1978), 49-100; 225-269. Feb 1 (China’s Civil War and the U.S. “Loss” of China) • Roderick MacFarquhar, Sino-American Relations, 59-77. • Roderick Macfarquhar, “Symposium: Rethinking the Lost Chance in China,” in Diplomatic History (Winter, 1997), 71-115. • James C. Thomson, “The United States and the Loss of China,” in et al., Sentimental Imperialists: The American Experience in East Asia (New York: Harper & Row, 1981). Feb 3 (The Korean Peninsula and the American Military Government) • Bruce Cumings, Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997), 185-236. • Bruce Cumings, The Origins of the Korean War: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981), 135-264. Feb 8 (The Occupation of Japan) • Michael Schaller, Altered States: The United States and Japan Since the Occupation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 7-76. • Koseki Shoichi, The Birth of Japan’s Postwar Constitution (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998), 68-94; 192-208. • John Curtis Perry, Beneath the Eagle’s Wings: Americans in Occupied Japan, 131-167. Feb 10 (The Korean War) • Bruce Cumings, Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997), 237-298. • Michael H. Hunt, Crises in US Foreign Policy: An International History Reader (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 170-231. Feb 16 TUESDAY (The International Implications of the Korean War) • Sergei Goncharov et al., Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War, 203-225. • William Stueck, The Korean War: An International History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), passim. • Peter Lowe, “The Frustrations of Alliance: Britain, the United States, and the Korean War, 1950-51,” in James Cotton and Ian Neary, eds., The Korean War in History (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1989), 80-96. • David Rees, “The Korean War and the Japanese Peace Treaty,” ibid., 163- 174. Feb 17 (The Geneva Convention and the Bandung Conference) • Robert F. Randle, Geneva 1954: The Settlements of the Indochinese War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), 157-227; 308-346. • Alfred D. Wilhelm, The Chinese at the Negotiating Table (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1994), 151-201. Feb 22 (Weds, The Human Dimensions of the Vietnam War) • Philip West et al., America’s Wars in Asia: A Cultural Approach to History and Memory (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998), 233-253. • James Fallows, “What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?” in Grace Sevy, ed., The American Experience in Vietnam: A Reader (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989), pp. 214-223. Feb 24 (The Vietnam War) • Michael H. Hunt, Crises in US Foreign Policy: An International History Reader (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 296-364. • Stanley Karnow, Vietnam, A History: The First Complete Account of Vietnam at War (New York: The Viking Press, 1983), 2-46. • James C. Thomson, Jr., et al., Sentimental Imperialists: The American Experience in East Asia (New York: Harper & Row, 1981), 253-267. • Gordon A. Craig and Alexander L. George, Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Problems of Our Times (New York: Oxford University press, 1995), 258-282. Mar 1 (Japan: Policy of Peace and Prosperity) • Michael Schaller, Altered States: The United States and Japan Since the Occupation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 96-162. • John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999), 525-564. Mar 3 (Security Challenges on the Korean Peninsula) • John Kie-Chiang Oh, Korean Politics: The Quest for Democratization and Economic Development (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999), 48-97. • Bruce Cumings, Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997), 394-433. Mar 8 (The Strategic Triangle and the Sino-Soviet Split) • Lowell Dittmer, Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its Implications, 147-155. • Allen Whiting, “The Sino-Soviet Conflict,” in Roderick Macfarquhar and John King Fairbank, eds., The Cambridge History of China, (vol. 14), 478-538. • Patrick Tyler, A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative History (New York: Century Foundation, 1999), 47-103. Mar 10 (Sino-U.S. Relations: An Odd Couple) • James Mann, About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China: From Nixon to Clinton (New York: Knopf, 1999), 78-193. • The National Security Archive, The Beijing-Washington Back-Channel and Henry Kissinger’s Secret Trip to China, September 1970-July 1971, Document 40: “Kissinger to Nixon, My Talks with Chou En-lai,” 4 July 1971. Available at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB66/ (Links to an external site.) • Ralph N.