International Studies

The course reviews the major competing theories of international organizations over time and examines the history and current operations of a wide range of international institutions and organizations. Special attention is focused on developing a generalized understanding of the forces contributing to or inhibiting the effectiveness of international institutions and organizations and of the forces shaping the preferences and behavior of states in the world politics. 

Through this course, we explore Korea’s premodern and modern belief systems according to the peninsula’s interactions with other parts of the world—particularly East Asia and the West. Topics include the rise of transnational Jesuit spirituality, catholic Christianity, and Korean Confucianism: accommodation and conflict, the rise of Protestantism in Korea and the emergence of an “ethically Confucianized Christianity”, bible women, the early modern evolution of home care, and the Seoul evangelistic center, protestant Christianity in the northern regions of Korea: Jerusalem of the east (to 1945), and exilic north Korean Christianity (1990~present). 

This course investigates digital trade and related issues, and covers digital trade rules in trade agreements, countries’ digital trade policies, and sharing economy. In addition, it discusses digital platforms such as Google and Netflix and digital divide with its impact on developing countries. 

This course examines the world of international business including economic foundations of international trade and investment; the international trade, finance, and regulatory frameworks; relations between international companies and nation-states, including costs and benefits of foreign investment and alternative controls and responses; and effects of local environmental characteristics on the operations of multi-national enterprises.

This course analyzes how cyber issues are changing the world of politics and security. It covers particular trends in the field, such as attempts to integrate cyber attacks into traditional militaries, the role of the internet in information warfare and propaganda, and the emergence of internet governance as a new topic for international negotiation and perhaps even arms control. Topics include cyber and society, cyber and war, nonstate actors, and cyber governance. 

This is an introductory course on Global Governance and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). It discusses current international issues such as political and economic development, the environment, and human rights. 

This course advances historical knowledge and understanding of contemporary developmental issues from an economic point of view. The course uses economic tools of analysis to capture the economic past of select developing regions and the economic problems facing poor parts of the world. The course focuses on market distortions and obstacles to industrializing peripheries and the implications for internally directed developmental trajectories and discourse in the long term.

This course examines globalization and regional transformation in East Asia especially from the joint and distance lectures of the three Universities in Korea, China and Japan. (Yonsei, Fudan, and Keio). Topics include general information and history of globalization, globalization theory, anti-globalization, regionalism, global politics of regionalism, regional transformation, politics and security, economics and society, and culture, consciousness and identity. 

This course focuses on the international politics of the Middle East taking as its starting point the end of the colonial rule in the region and the formation of new nation-states. The first part of the course is devoted to a methodological introduction of the study of the region and provides the conceptual frameworks and theories needed to define the Middle East. Focusing on a more empirical analysis of the Middle East political history, the second part of the course introduces and analyzes the impact of Cold War dynamics on the region and the political, economic, and social transformations the region faced at the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a New World Order. In order to provide a clear understanding of the recurrent patterns and trajectories of international and regional political dynamics, a session is devoted to an in-depth examination of
the origins, causes, and consequences of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the most significant and enduring crisis of the region. Later sessions focus on diplomacy in the Arab world taking the USA-Jordan relations as a case study. The last part of the course examines important themes and debates in international politics of the Middle East/North Africa region, including ideological movements, gender, and globalization. Finally, the course examines current uprisings and their impact on the politics of the region.