授業科目名 年度 学期 開講曜日・時限 学部・研究科 全担当教員 単位数
16886:IR18‐GE304 Korean Studies(R) § 16887:RUIR-3621 Korean Studies(R) § 16888:IR-FS304 Korean Studies(R) 2024 秋セメスター 金5 国際関係学部 張 瑛周 2

キャンパス

衣笠

授業施設

恒心館KS201号教室

授業で利用する言語

英語

授業の概要と方法

This course explores the politics and foreign policy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea). The focus is to think critically about the North Korea’s pressing issues of security (namely nuclear and missile development) and external behaviors based on our conceptual/ theoretical understandings and knowledge of International Relations. The course is formed by four sections. In the first section, we overview and understand general information about and contemporary issues that the international community faces about North Korea in a broader context of International Relations. In the second section, we explore the history of North Korea. Tracing back to the Japan’s colonization of the Korean Peninsula, we look into how North Korea was established and how its political and social systems including its ideology were built. The third section covers and evaluates international efforts to deal with the North Korean leadership in the post-Cold War era. Here we primarily explore North Korea’s foreign policy behavior vis-à-vis the United States, South Korea, Japan, and China. The final section looks into specific debates: the two Koreas’ unification, the North Korea’s cultural diplomacy, North Korea’s relation with pro-North organization in Japan, and the prospect for North Korea’s future.

受講生の到達目標

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

・improve their ability to think critically and analytically about North Korea and its nuclear development from multiple perspectives;
・take into account the historical, political, and international foundations of North Korea today;
・understand the specific local context in which North Korean issues originate from and relate it to the larger scholarly literature and policy debates pertaining to North Korea.

事前に履修しておくことが望まれる科目

授業スケジュール

授業回数/
担当教員（複数担当の場合） 		テーマ
キーワード・文献・補足事項等
week 1

Course introduction, Description and class organization

Basic data about North Korea: CIA World Factbook, available sources from North Korea

Week 2

Debates about North Korea

Contemporary issues (security, economy, and human rights)

Week 3

History of North Korea: during the WWII

Japan’s colonization of the Korean Peninsula, the activists’ protests in the northern part of Korea

Week 4

Making of North Korea: post-WWII

Kim Il-sung’s making of North Korea

Week 5

Ideology and domestic politics in North Korea

Juche (self-reliance), Korean Workers’ Party

Week 6

Military, economy and society in North Korea

Korean People’s Army, economy (centrally controlled v.s. private market), and the local networks

Week 7

Foreign relations: the United States

Nuclear crises and negotiation

Week 8

Inter-Korean relations

Nuclear crises, unification, and negotiation

Week 9

Foreign relations: Japan

Issues of history, abduction, and negotiation

Week 10

Foreign relations: China

Patron state with dilemma

Week 11

Unification of the two Koreas

Korea Confederation, the gap between the two Koreas, North Korean defectors

Week 12

North Korea and pro-North organization in Japan:

General Association of Korean Residents in Japan and Korean schools

Week 13

North Korea’s cultural diplomacy

Tourism and others

Week 14

Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula

US-DPRK Singapore summit, nuclear control?

Week 15

Wrap-up

The value of critical thinking from multiple perspectives, end-of-term report

授業実施形態

100% face-to-face.

授業外学習の指示

Students are required to finish reading assignments before they come to the classes and be ready for questions and discussions in the classes.

成績評価方法

種別 割合(%) 評価基準等
定期試験（筆記）

レポート試験
（統一締切日を締切とするレポート）

上記以外の試験・レポート、平常点評価
（日常的な授業における取組状況の評価）		 100

50%: Class participation including attendance and class discussion
50%: End of Term report (The detail instruction will be given in class)
Notes: No credit will be given if you absent classes for 5 times.

成績評価方法(備考)

No credit will be given if you absent classes for 5 times.
The above course schedule may get changed depending on circumstances.

受講および研究に関するアドバイス

教科書

教科書(使用頻度、その他補足)

参考書

書名 著者 出版社 ISBNコード 備考
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stanlinist Utopia Andrei Lankov Oxford University Press 9780199390038
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future Victor Cha HarperCollins 9780062906366
North Korea: Ideology, Politics, Economy Han. S. Park Prentice Hall 9780131021613

参考書(使用頻度、その他補足)

参考になるwwwページ

授業内外における学生・教員間のコミュニケーションの方法

コミュニケーションペーパー,manaba+R,学生との直接対話

備考

【科目ナンバリング・カリキュラムマップはこちらから/Click here to see the Curriculum-Map and Course-Numbering】
URL:http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp//students/pathways-future/course/curriculum.html