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South Korea has experienced successful bottom-up democratization in a short period of time, which can be regarded as an unusual case in the region of Northeast Asia. As the society was democratized, however, the country’s foreign policy-making process became much more complicated than it used to be. As a rear-view mirror course for the course, “The Politics of the Vortex”? - Political History of South Korea, this course will review history and development of the South Korean civil society and democratization. In addition, this course will cover the Japanese and the Taiwanese cases in comparison with the South Korean case. Through comparisons of the three key democracies of Northeast Asia, students will learn how their democratizations have been achieved differently and how their democracies influence the countries’ foreign policy-making process. <a href="http://bit.ly/1bebp5s" target="_blank">Click here to see evaluations, syllabi, and faculty bios</a>