Shinzō Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, speaks at a Japan-European Union (EU) bilateral press conference at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 2017. (Image courtesy of the Cabinet Public Relations Office. Source: Wikimedia Commons. License CC BY.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Richard J. Samuels
MIT Course Number
17.486
As Taught In
Fall 2016
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course explores Japan's role in world orders, past, present, and future. It focuses on Japanese conceptions of security; rearmament debates; the relationship of domestic politics to foreign policy; the impact of Japanese technological and economic transformation at home and abroad; alternative trade and security regimes; Japan's response to 9/11; and relations with Asian neighbors, Russia, and the alliance with the United States.
