- Docente: Antonio Fiori
- Credits: 5
- SSD: SPS/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (cod. 8042)
Course contents
The course will be divided into the
following macro-sections, to be declined for every of the countries
taken into exam:
- historical
framework;
- electoral system and voting
behaviour;
- the process of
democratization;
- economic development (and analysis of the
"developmental model");
- foreign policy and security
issues;
- regionalism and "asiatic
values".
Readings/Bibliography
Students who attend classes will have to read some chapters from the following books:
- James Wang, Contemporary Chinese Politics, Pearson Higher Education, last available version.
- June Teufel Dreyer, China's Political System, Longman Inc., 7th edition, 2009.
- Tony Saich, Governance and Politics of China, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Larry Diamond and Doh Chull Shin (eds.), Institutional
Reform and Democratic Consolidation in Korea, Hoover
Institution Press, 2000.
- Don Oberdorfer, The Two Koreas: A Contemporary
History, Basic Books, 2002.
- Denny Roy, Taiwan: A Political History, Cornell Un. Press, 2002.
Other articles will be suggested during the course.
Those who do not attend the course should contact the teacher directly in order to have a complete list of readings.
Teaching methods
Lectures and plenum discussion. It is fundamental to study the required material before each class, in order to participate actively.
Office hours
See the website of Antonio Fiori