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PO370

The Political Economy of Eastern Asia

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2026

Topics

  • Colonialism and state formation
  • Japan, China and Southeast Asia
  • developmental states
  • World War II and the Cold War
  • Asian financial crisis
  • regionalism
  • environment and security.

Readings

  • Warren I. Cohen, East Asia at the Center (2001), chapter 8.
    Required
  • Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, 3rd edition (2014), chapters 1, 2 and 5.
    Required
  • Atul Kohli, 'Where Do High-Growth Political Economies Come From?' (1999), assigned excerpt.
    Required
  • All assigned readings supplied free through ARES or web links.
    Other material
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