Stability Challenges:S/SE Asia

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Juris Doctor

This course examines the major stability challenges affecting the region of South/Southeast Asia in 2019: 40 years of continuous war in Afghanistan, 70 years of India-Pakistan enmity, Pakistan’s increasing stability crisis, regional terrorism, and Indian and Chinese hegemony in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea. Viewing the South/Southeast Asia region holistically, students analyze the causes and effects of these stability issues, discuss regional and global impact, possible resolutions to growing crises, and the Trump administration’s policies for the region. Within this framework, the class considers how corruption, poor governance, ethnic/sectarian violence, and internal conflict can destabilize a country and how unresolved territorial disputes and demands for resources can lead to military confrontation.