JSIS 495: Task Force - Winter 2015: Task Force E

Clark Sorensen TTh 1:30-3:20 PAR 322

The United States has permanently stationed army, navy, airforce, and marine personnel at bases in Japan and Korea that have existed since the end of WWII (in the case of Japan), and the Korean War (in the case of Korea). These were originally established as part of the US policy to contain communism after WWII, with the Japanese bases intended to keep Japan pacifist and protected from the Soviet Union, and later North Korea and China. The South Korean bases function to counter the North Korea threat. There has been significant controversy about the bases, especially those in Okinawa, but elsewhere as well, yet the Pentagon foresees no end date to US forward deployment in Northeast Asia. With the end of the Cold War, the rise of China, and the gradual rearmament of Japan, is it time to rethink this policy? Depending upon their interests, students can approach this topic from domestic politics (US, Japan, South Korea), national interest (what threats are the US, Japan, and South Korea facing), international politics (such as the difficulty South Korea and Japan have in military cooperation), or strategic doctrine (what combination of forces best meets the defense needs of the US and its allies).

For updates on Asian security:

National Bureau of Asian Research  

Nautilus Institution for Security and Sustainability 

For US foreign policy:

US Department of State  (useful for finding official statements, and officially
published documents and agreements).

US Dept. of State Country Info

For US strategic policy:

Check on the web for the most recent National Defense White Paper.
Check other think tanks for a variety of points of view.

American Enterprise Institute

Brookings Institute 

Heritage Foundation 

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Others

USFK (United States Forces Korea) website

USFJ (United States Forces Japan)

GlobalSecurity.org

Pew Survey

Asian Survey  
Foreign Affairs
Journal of Northeast Asian Studies  
Pacific Affairs

The New York Times  
The Washington Post  
The Wall Street Journal  

Military Balance (Detailed statistics and narratives on military capabilities by country/region around the world.)

Gibby, B. R. (2012). The will to win: American military advisors in Korea, 1946-1953. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Joo, S.-H. (2014). North Korea and Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

Scales, R. H., Wortzel, L. M., & Army War College (U.S.). (1999). The future U.S. military presence in Asia: Landpower and the geostrategy of American commitment. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College.

United States. (2013). Inquiry into U.S. costs and allied contributions to support the U.S. military presence overseas: Report of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate.

Holslag, J., & International Institute for Strategic Studies. (2010). Trapped giant: China's military rise. Abingdon: Routledge for the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Pae, C., Denmark, A., & T'ongil Yŏn'guwŏn (Korea). (2009). The U.S.-ROK alliance in the 21st century. Seŏul: Korea Insitute for National Unification.

Gallicchio, M. S. (2008). The unpredictability of the past: Memories of the Asia-Pacific war in U.S./East Asian relations. Durham: Duke University Press.

Armacost, M. H., & Okimoto, D. I. (2004). The future of America's alliances in northeast Asia. Stanford, CA: Asia-Pacific Research Center.

Stuart, D. T., Tow, W. T., & International Institute for Strategic Studies. (1995). A US strategy for the Asia-Pacific: Building a multipolar balance-of-power system in Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Li, M., & Kemburi, K. M. (2015). New Dynamics in US-China Relations: Contending for the Asia Pacific. London: Routledge.

French, T. (2014). National Police Reserve: The Origin of Japan's Self Defense Forces. Leiden: BRILL.

Morris-Suzuki, T., Low, M., Petrov, L., & Tsu, T. Y. (2013). East Asia Beyond the History Wars: Confronting the Ghosts of Violence. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.

Ali, S. M. (2011). Asia-Pacific Security Dynamics in the Obama Era: A New World Emerging. Hoboken: Taylor & Francis.

Inoue, M. S. (2007). Okinawa and the U.S. military: Identity making in the Age of Globalization. New York: Columbia University Press.

Merino, N. (2010). U.S. military deployment. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press.

Emily Keller
Military Science Librarian

emkeller@uw.edu

Hyokyoung Yi
Korea Studies Librarian

hkyi@uw.edu

Azusa Tanaka
Japan Studies Librarian

azusat@uw.edu