Security Policy Analysis

This component focuses on the process of analyzing national security policies through theoretical and practical tools, with typical examples of security policy analysis of the US, EU countries, China and some middle powers in Asia Pacific. Thereby, the component provides students with an in-depth understanding of the current security situation of major countries in the world such as the US, Russia, China... as well as explores the solutions to solve these problems.

1. Introduction to key concepts in security policy:

Reading:

David Baldwin (1997) “The Concept of Security”, Review of International Studies, 23, 5-26

Barry A. Posen (1993). “Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict”, Survival No.1, Vol.35

Jarvis, L. & Holland, J. (2015). Security: A Critical Introduction. (London: Palgrave MacMillan), Chapter 2-5.

Amitav Acharya (2008). Human Security in John Baylis, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens (Eds.) The Globalization of World Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp.490-505 (Chapter 28).

2.Security Policy: An Analytical Framework

Reading:

Kugler, R. (2006) Policy Analysis in National Security Affairs: New Methods for a New Era (Washington DC: National Defense University Press), Chapter 4 & 5.

Eller, W. S., & Gerber, B. J. (2010). Contemplating the role of precision and range in homeland security policy analysis: A response to Mueller. Policy Studies Journal 38(1): 23-39.

3.US Security policy: An analysis

Reading:

Stephen F. Burgess (2016) Rising bipolarity in the South China Sea: the American rebalance to Asia and China's expansion, Contemporary Security Policy, 37:1, 111-143.

John J. Chin, Kiron Skinner, Clay Yoo (2023). Understanding National Security Strategies Through Time, Texas National Security Review, 6: 4, 103-124

Michael Yahuda (2019). The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Routledge, London. Chapter 4.

4.China’s Security policy: An analysis

Reading:

Alice Ekman (2022). China and the battle of coalitions: The 'circle of friends' versus the Indo-Pacific strategy. EU Institute for Security Studies, Chaillot Paper 174, available at https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/CP_174_0.pdf

Michael Yahuda (2019). The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Routledge, London. Chapter 5.

William Tow & Brandon Taylor (2010), “What is Asian security architecture?” Review of International Studies, 36, pp. 95-116.

5.Vietnam’s Security policy: An analysis

Nguyen Vu Tung (2010). Vietnam's Security Challenges: Hanoi's New Approach to National Security and Implications to Defense and Foreign Policies, NIDS Joint Research Series No.5, available at https://www.nids.mod.go.jp/english/publication/joint_research/series5/pdf/5-8.pdf

Tran Truong Thuy & Nguyen Minh Ngoc (2013). Vietnam's Security Challenges: Priorities, Policy Implications and Prospects for Regional Cooperation, NIDS Joint Research Series No.9, available at

https://www.nids.mod.go.jp/english/publication/joint_research/series9/pdf/08.pdf

Tomotaka Shoji (2021). Vietnam's Security: Challenges and Responses, Society of Security and Diplomatic Policy Studies, available at http://ssdpaki.la.coocan.jp/en/proposals/73.html

6.Seminar: Russia’s Security policy

Richard Connolly (2016) The Empire Strikes Back: Economic Statecraft and the Securitisation of Political Economy in Russia, Europe-Asia Studies, 68:4

Edward Hunter Christie (2016) The Design and Impact of Western Economic Sanctions against Russia, The RUSI Journal, 161:3, 52-64

Manilov, Valery (1997). “National Security of Russia.” Paper, Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project, Belfer Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/national-security-russia

Hughes, A. (2023). Plan Z: Reassessing Security-Based Accounts of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine. Journal of Advanced Military Studies 14(2), 174-208. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/909024.

National Security Strategy of Russian Federation (2021), https://paulofilho.net.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/National_Security_Strategy_of_the_Russia.pdf

7. Seminar: EU Security Policy

Reading

Adrian Hyde-Price (2013) Neither Realism nor Liberalism: New Directions in Theorizing EU Security Policy, Contemporary Security Policy, 34:2, 397-408

Jan Joel Andersson and Clara Sophie Cramer (2023). Yearbook of European Security 2023, EU Institute for Security Studies, available at https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/YES_2023.pdf

Pol Bargués, Jonathan Joseph, Ana E Juncos, Rescuing the liberal international order: crisis, resilience and EU security policy, International Affairs, Volume 99, Issue 6, November 2023, Pages 2281–2299, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiad222

8.Seminar: German’ Security Policy

Tobias Bunde (2022) Lessons (to be) learned? Germany’s Zeitenwende and European security after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Contemporary Security Policy, 43:3, 516-530.

German National Security Strategy (2023),

https://www.nationalesicherheitsstrategie.de/National-Security-Strategy-EN.pdf

9.Seminar: Japan’s Security policy

Michael Yahuda (2019). The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Routledge, London. Chapter 6.

Japan National Security Strategy (2022), https://www.cas.go.jp/jp/siryou/221216anzenhoshou/nss-e.pdf

Takuya Matsuda (2023) Japan’s Emerging Security Strategy, The Washington Quarterly, 46:1, 85-102, https://doi.org/10.1080/0163660X.2023.2190218

10.Seminar: India’s Security policy

Hu Shisheng & Wang Jun (2023). India's National Security Strategy: Pursuits, Origins, and Practice, Contemporary International Relations 32 (6): 118-145, http://www.cicir.ac.cn/UpFiles/file/20230308/6381388217698174078017665.pdf

Obligatory reading:

Michael Yahuda (2019). The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Routledge, London.

Kugler, R. (2006) Policy Analysis in National Security Affairs: New Methods for a New Era (Washington DC: National Defense University Press)