Courses
LaW 544A/B-JSIS444/544-AA 490/590-ESS 488/584 Space law and policy
This course exposes students to the law and policy foundations of outer space activities. It covers the essential origins, sources, and role of space law, as well as the key organizations, forums, and forces shaping the contemporary governance of space activities. It provides a thorough grounding in the U.N. treaties, principles, resolutions, regulations, as well as international and national space laws and policies.
JSIS 578/LAW 599A/LAW 599B SPACE FOUNDATIONS FOR STRATEGY, POLICY, AND DIPLOMACY
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JSIS A 548 National Security of Japan
Focuses on the changing landscape of Japan’s national security concerns-the actors, institutions, and circumstances that have brought issues of defense and rivalry to the center stage of Japanese politics. Topics include nationalism, militarization, pacifism, United States-Japan security alliance, Sino-Japanese competition, constitutional revision, collective defense, and spy satellites.
JSIS A 437/537 POL s 424 International Relations of Japan
Comprehensive examination of Japan’s international relations. Covers issues such as foreign economic and security relations. Investigates Japan’s role in alliances, partnerships, and international organizations. Examines Japan’s relations with the United States, the European Union, Asia, Latin America, Africa, and other regions.
JSIS 495 B Taskforce: U.S.-Japan Alliance in the World
Given the multiple regional security challenges, the focus is on assessing how and whether the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance can play a role in stabilizing the international relations of Asia.
JSIS 495 Japan’s Space Diplomacy
This taskforce focuses on Japan’s space diplomacy in the international system. It cuts across the deeply intertwined trends of the country’s science, economics, and military space diplomacy. Taskforce members are charged with positioning Japan’s space diplomacy with two countries that are major challenges in its foreign relations portfolio – South Korea and China. How might this be done?
JSIS 495 B Taskforce: Space hub seattle
Washington State is poised to launch as a space hub in the global newspace business. Local companies such as Blue Origin, Stratolaunch, Spaceflight, Tethers Unlimited and Planetary Resources are advantaged by a pioneering culture, access to software, big data, and capital. But the fierce global competition poses unique challenges for policymakers as they race to position their localities, states, and countries in a projected $600 billion global space economy by the 2030s. These include the dual-use nature of the technology that cuts across commercial and military realities, and the weakness of legal and regulatory frameworks. This Task Force will pinpoint the nature of the challenges, and recommend how Washington State, Seattle, and local actors can create the right policies to succeed.
JSIS b 310 Data ethnography and qualitative methods
Big data is transforming state-society relations, affecting how we create knowledge, do work, participate in politics, and connect with others. This course exposes students to qualitative methods that address critical problems of transparency, ethics, bias, equity, and replicability (TEBER) in work involving the generation, analysis, and use of big data. Using an ethnographic approach, students build skills to interrogate the social context of data through a variety of qualitative methods and techniques, such as participant observation, focus groups, interviewing, case studies, discourse analysis, document analysis, process tracing, and fieldwork. Students will apply their knowledge in a capstone project focused on technology and international security, engage with industry and academic speakers, and carry out a variety of practicums through a required lab on qualitative data software (ATLAS.ti).
