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School of Culture History and Language · ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
This course introduces the exciting growing field of International History, viewed from an Asia Pacific perspective. Through a series of case studies of the region, students will develop the skills to analyse how the norms, practices and structures that underpin international affairs today have developed since the 19th century, and what role Asia and the Pacific region played in this process. The course prompts students to imagine alternative pathways and outcomes arising from specific historical moments. Examples of these key case studies include: Pattern of the adaptation of international law by China and Japan; alternatives to the Europe-centred world system; critical assessment of the idea of human rights; colonial participation in international organisations; the development of international anti-terrorist law; historical origins of the border disputes in Northeast Asia; and the development of refugee law, with its implications for the current refugee crisis in Asia and Australia.
Tutorial Participation
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
First assignment (Literature review) 2000 words
Learning outcomes 2, 4, 6
Final Essay 4000 words
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 5, 6
The total workload for the course is 130 hours, including in class time and independent study. There will be one 3 hour class per week.
Akami, Tomoko, 2002, Internationalizing the Pacific: The US, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations in War and Peace, 1919-1945, London: Routledge. Preliminary Reading Akami, T., Internationalizing the Pacific: The US, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations in War and Peace, 1919-1945, London: Routledge, 2002. Best, A. et al eds, International History of the Twentieth Century, London: Routledge, 2004. Bull, H., The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics, the third edition, London: Palgrave, 2002 c1977. Carr, E.H., The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919—1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations, London: Papermac, 1993 c1939. Fassbender, B. et al eds, Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Hobson, J., The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics: Western International Theory, 1760-2020, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Iriye, A., Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Mazlish, B. and A. Iriye eds, The Global History Reader, London: Routledge, 2005. Osterhammel, J., P. Camiller trans., The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Vitalis, R., White World Order, Black Power Politics: the Birth of American International Relations, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.