Academic Catalog

ASN508 THE UNITED STATES AND MAJOR POWERS IN ASIA

Course Code: 8420508
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Asian Studies
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This courses focuses on the United States as one of the most serious players of interplay among the Asian powers.Even though the United States, geographically, is not a part of the Asia continent, it has been a very active and determinant actor of region s balance of power and the great power game. The course will, first of all, give a general framework of understanding of the US foreign policy and how it interrelates with Asia and in what sense it is different from its other regional policies and perspectives.