Professor Hsiung's Teaching

G53.2900: International Law (Graduate). Rules that govern in their legal interrelationship and current development of law among nations, based on the study of cases. The use of the law for the regulation of international behavior and environment. (Fall 2006).

G53.2736 International Governance: Regimes, Institutions, & Collective Action (Graduate, Spring 2005)

V53.0740: International Law (Undergraduate, Spring 2004)

V53.0770: International Relations of Asia (Undergraduate). The relations of and between the principal Asian national actors (e.g., China, Japan, India) and the relationship of the Asian "subsystem" to the international system. Covers the traditional Asian concepts of transnational order, the impact of external interventions, the modern ideological conflict and technological revolution, the emergent multilateral balance beyond Vietnam, the changing patterns of relations in the Asian subsystem traced to the international evolution from bipolarity to multicentrism, and the U.S. role in Asia. (Spring 2005).

V53.0560 Politics of East Asia (Undergraduate): This is a course for beginners, designed to make China and Japan less “inscrutable.” In addition to political institutions and processes, it examines political culture, the impact of modernization (and globalization), ideology, the role of political elites, and social dynamics. In sum, China and Japan are approached from a broad background of history and culture in comparative perspective, while we aim at understanding the present. (Fall 2006).