ASS19001 Seminar in International Development

Hiroshima University Syllabus

Japanese

Academic Year 2025Year School/Graduate School School of Integrated Arts and Sciences Department of Integrated Arts and Sciences

Lecture Code ASS19001 Subject Classification Specialized Education

Subject Name 世界開発論演習

Subject Name
（Katakana）セカイカイハツロンエンシュウ

Subject Name in
English Seminar in International Development

Instructor LEE DONG SUK

Instructor
(Katakana) イ　トンソク

Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 3rd-Year,  Second Semester,  4Term

Days, Periods, and Classrooms (4T) Mon1-4：IAS A809

Lesson Style Seminar Lesson Style
(More Details) Face-to-face, Online (simultaneous interactive)

Non media Oral Presentation

Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week 4 Language of Instruction J : Japanese

Course Level 3 : Undergraduate High-Intermediate

Course Area（Area） 24 : Social Sciences

Course Area（Discipline） 03 : Economics

Eligible Students 2年自生以上

Keywords Global Industrial Economic System、Global Information Economics System、Historical Capitalism、21st Century Capitalistic Theory

Special Subject for Teacher Education 　 Special Subject 　

Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) Currently, the centralisation of wealth and exclusionary differences are accelerating. Understanding the mechanisms behind it will approach the department’s aims of interdisciplinary tackling serious issues the human race is facing in the 21st Century
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) Integrated Arts and Sciences
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・The knowledge and understanding  to fully recognize the mutual relations and their importance among individual academic diciplines.
（Abilities and Skills）
・The abilities and skills to summarize one's own research in reports or academic papers, and to deliver presentations at a seminar or research meetings, and to answer questions.

Class Objectives
/Class Outline The global economic structure since the 1980s focused its source of wealth on service products. It is distinct as of global integration for an international currency, product and industrial capitalism. In addition, a way of “International Empire” from a credit system was introduced by the IMF and G20. These transitions into a global information economics system will be studied through Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith in Beijing and discuss the continuity and intermittency of the global industrial economic system since the Industrial Revolution.

Class Schedule lesson1 Orientation
lesson2 TEXT Introduction
        /Introduction, Chapter 1：Detroit’s Marx and Beijing’s Smith
lesson3 Chapter 2：Adam Smith’s historical sociology
lesson4 TEXT1: The Long Downturn(-19)
       /Chapter 3：Marx, Schumpeter and the accumulation of an “endless” capital and power
lesson5 Chapter 4：A study of a global turbulent economy
lesson6 TEXT1: The Long Downturn(-35)
       /Chapter 5：Social dynamism of a global turbulence
lesson7 Chapter 6：Hegemony Crisis
lesson8 TEXT2: Platform Capitalism(-70)
       /Chapter 7：Control without hegemony
lesson9 Chapter 8：Historical capitalism on territorial logic
lesson10 TEXT2: Platform Capitalism(-92)
       /Chapter 9：An unrealised Global State
lesson11 Chapter 10：A challenge for a “peaceful emergence”
lesson12 TEXT3: Great Platform Wars(-113)
        /Chapter 11：Nation, market, capitalism and East and West
lesson13 Chapter 12：Origins and dynamism of the Chinese emergence
lesson14 TEXT3: Great Platform Wars(-129)
        /Conclusion/Interview：A crooked capital
Japanese Commentary：Capitalism to Market Socialism

lesson15 Summary

Non examination

Text/Reference
Books,etc. TEXT:
Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, Polity Press,2017
Handouts:
Giovanni Arrighi, Adam Smith in Beijing, Sakuhinsha , 2011

PC or AV used in
Class,etc. Text, Handouts, Microsoft Teams

(More Details) Non media Oral Presentation

Learning techniques to be incorporated Discussions

Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review Outline of lesson2-15 due.

Requirements Résumé due by 17:00 Tuesday before class
Send to dslee@hiroshima-u.ac.jp（Subject：世界開発論/International Developmental）

Grading Method Summary Report＋Participation Rate

Practical Experience

Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it

Message Understand that the centralisation of wealth and exclusionary differences are accelerating thoroughly, and work towards the recovery for a community with 99% of the people having the right to live.

Other

Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

Academic Year	2025Year	School/Graduate School	School of Integrated Arts and Sciences Department of Integrated Arts and Sciences
Lecture Code	ASS19001	Subject Classification	Specialized Education
Subject Name	世界開発論演習
Subject Name （Katakana）	セカイカイハツロンエンシュウ
Subject Name in English	Seminar in International Development
Instructor	LEE DONG SUK
Instructor (Katakana)	イ　トンソク
Campus	Higashi-Hiroshima	Semester/Term	3rd-Year, Second Semester, 4Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms	(4T) Mon1-4：IAS A809
Lesson Style	Seminar	Lesson Style (More Details)	Face-to-face, Online (simultaneous interactive)
Non media Oral Presentation
Credits	2.0	Class Hours/Week	4	Language of Instruction	J : Japanese
Course Level	3 : Undergraduate High-Intermediate
Course Area（Area）	24 : Social Sciences
Course Area（Discipline）	03 : Economics
Eligible Students	2年自生以上
Keywords	Global Industrial Economic System、Global Information Economics System、Historical Capitalism、21st Century Capitalistic Theory
Special Subject for Teacher Education		Special Subject
Class Status within Educational Program (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)	Currently, the centralisation of wealth and exclusionary differences are accelerating. Understanding the mechanisms behind it will approach the department’s aims of interdisciplinary tackling serious issues the human race is facing in the 21st Century
Criterion referenced Evaluation (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)	Integrated Arts and Sciences （Knowledge and Understanding）・The knowledge and understanding to fully recognize the mutual relations and their importance among individual academic diciplines. （Abilities and Skills）・The abilities and skills to summarize one's own research in reports or academic papers, and to deliver presentations at a seminar or research meetings, and to answer questions.
Class Objectives /Class Outline	The global economic structure since the 1980s focused its source of wealth on service products. It is distinct as of global integration for an international currency, product and industrial capitalism. In addition, a way of “International Empire” from a credit system was introduced by the IMF and G20. These transitions into a global information economics system will be studied through Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith in Beijing and discuss the continuity and intermittency of the global industrial economic system since the Industrial Revolution.
Class Schedule	lesson1 Orientation lesson2 TEXT Introduction /Introduction, Chapter 1：Detroit’s Marx and Beijing’s Smith lesson3 Chapter 2：Adam Smith’s historical sociology lesson4 TEXT1: The Long Downturn(-19) /Chapter 3：Marx, Schumpeter and the accumulation of an “endless” capital and power lesson5 Chapter 4：A study of a global turbulent economy lesson6 TEXT1: The Long Downturn(-35) /Chapter 5：Social dynamism of a global turbulence lesson7 Chapter 6：Hegemony Crisis lesson8 TEXT2: Platform Capitalism(-70) /Chapter 7：Control without hegemony lesson9 Chapter 8：Historical capitalism on territorial logic lesson10 TEXT2: Platform Capitalism(-92) /Chapter 9：An unrealised Global State lesson11 Chapter 10：A challenge for a “peaceful emergence” lesson12 TEXT3: Great Platform Wars(-113) /Chapter 11：Nation, market, capitalism and East and West lesson13 Chapter 12：Origins and dynamism of the Chinese emergence lesson14 TEXT3: Great Platform Wars(-129) /Conclusion/Interview：A crooked capital Japanese Commentary：Capitalism to Market Socialism lesson15 Summary Non examination
Text/Reference Books,etc.	TEXT: Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, Polity Press,2017 Handouts: Giovanni Arrighi, Adam Smith in Beijing, Sakuhinsha , 2011
PC or AV used in Class,etc.	Text, Handouts, Microsoft Teams
(More Details)	Non media Oral Presentation
Learning techniques to be incorporated	Discussions
Suggestions on Preparation and Review	Outline of lesson2-15 due.
Requirements	Résumé due by 17:00 Tuesday before class Send to dslee@hiroshima-u.ac.jp（Subject：世界開発論/International Developmental）
Grading Method	Summary Report＋Participation Rate
Practical Experience
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it
Message	Understand that the centralisation of wealth and exclusionary differences are accelerating thoroughly, and work towards the recovery for a community with 99% of the people having the right to live.
Other
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes. Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

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