Kursplan "Politisk makt växer ur en gevärspipa" - Militär och statsbyggnad i Ostasien från 1839 till idag.

Asada, S., From Mahan to Pearl Harbor : American Strategic Theory and the Rise of the Imperial Japanese Navy (Annopolis : Naval Institute Press, 2013) (100 pages)
Asselin, P., “The Indochinese Communist Party's Unfinished Revolution of 1945 and the Origins of Vietnam's 30-Year Civil War” in Journal of Cold War Studies, 2023-03, Vol.25 (1), p.4-45 (40 pages)
Chen, D., ”China's Leninist State and strategic relations with the United States: Chiang's KMT in Nanjing Decade and implications for the Chinese Communist Party after 1949” in Asian Politics & Policy 2023-10, Vol.15 (4), p.668-701 (33 pages)
Crawford, Timothy, “From the Anti-Comintern to the Nazi-Soviet and Japanese-Soviet Pacts, 1936-1941”, 246-278, in Jeffrey W.

Taliaferro, Norrin M. Ripsman, Steven E. Lobell (ed.), The Challenge of Grand Strategy (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2012) (32 pages)
Drea, E., Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853-1945 (University Press of Kansas) (200 pages).
Elman, B., ”Naval Warfare and the Refraction of China's Self-Strengthening Reforms into Scientific and Technological Failure, 1865-1895” in Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 38, No. 2 (May, 2004), pp. 283-326; (44 pages)
Friedman, J., Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015) (120 pages)
Fung, A., ”Testing the Self-Strengthening: The Chinese Army in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895” Modern Asian Studies Vol. 30, No. 4, Special Issue: War in Modern China (Oct., 1996), pp. 1007-1031; (25 pages)
Gates, R., “Pan-Asianism in Prewar Japanese Foreign Affairs: The Curious Case of Uchida Yasuya” in The Journal of Japanese studies, 2011-12, Vol.37 (1), p.1-27 (26 pages)
Hane, M., Modern Japan: A Historical Survey (Oxford: Taylor and Francis Group, 2012) (100 pages)
Hazelton, J., “The client gets a vote: counterinsurgency warfare and the U.S. military advisory mission in South Vietnam, 1954-1965” in

Journal of strategic studies, 2020-01, Vol.43 (1), p.126-153 (27 pages)
Kaple, D., “Agents of Change: Soviet Advisers and High Stalinist Management in China, 1949–1960” in Journal of cold war studies, 2016-01, Vol.18 (1), p.5-30 (25 pages)
Kim, P., The Park Chung Hee era- the transformation of South Korea (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011) (80 pages)
Kim, Y., “Why Did Stalin Not Support a Quick Victory for the Korean People’s Army? Stalin’s Unspoken Global Security Strategy for the Korean War” in The Korean Journal of International Studies, 2019, 17(1), pp.79-102 (22 pages)
Li, X., The Cold War in East Asia (Florence: Routledge, 2018) (60 pages)
Paine, S., The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012) (300 pages)
Scott, D., China and the International System, 1840-1949: Power, Presence, and Perceptions in a Century of Humiliation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008) (140 pages)
Shiu, V., and Cheng, C., ”Modern War on an Ancient Battlefield: The Diffusion of American Military Technology and Ideas in the Chinese Civil War, 1946-1949” in Modern China, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Jan., 2009), pp. 38-64. (27 pages)
Smith, R., “Foreign-Training and China's Self-Strengthening: The Case of Feng-huang-shan, 1864–1873”, in Modern Asian studies, 1976-04, Vol.10 (2), p.195-223; (27 pages)
Sutton, D., “German Advice and Residual Warlordism in the Nanking Decade: Influences on Nationalist Military Training and Strategy” in The China Quarterly, No. 91 (Sep., 1982), pp. 386-410 (24 pages)
Taylor, F., Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949
(United States: Princeton University Press, 2019) (178 pages)

Whiteman, P., “The Battle of Shanghai: How China Lost its Defense to Japan” in The Chinese historical review, 2022-01, Vol.29 (1), p.34-55 (19 pages)
Yang, Z., “The bingyun strategy: How subverting armed forces aided the Chinese Communist Party's rise to power” in Comparative strategy, 2023-01, Vol.42 (1), p.14-33 (20 pages)
Total: circa 1670 pages