China in International Relations

elective courses

Classroom

Course description: The aim of the course is:

1/To identify the structure and process of the Chinese Foreign Policy

2/To understand the civilizational context of China,s decision and actions

3/To assess the international status of China as a great power

Course outline:

I.Introductory session

II. China,s Foreign Policy System

Readings:

1.Suisheng Zhao, Top – Level Design and Enlarged Diplomacy: Foreign and Security Policymaking in Xi Jinping’s China, Journal of Contemporary China, 14 March 2022.

2. Shengsong Yue, Toward a Global Partnership Network: Implications, Evolutions and Prospects of China’s Partnership Diplomacy, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 15 February 2019.

III .Traditional Chinese Visions of the World.

Readings.

1. W. Callahan, Tianxia. Empire and the World.. in, W. Callahan and E. Barantseva (eds), China Orders the World. Normative Soft Power and Foreign Policy, J. Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore 2011, p. 91-117.

2. Bongjin Kim, Rethinking of the Pre-modern East Asian Region Order, Journal of East Asia Studies,2002,no. 2,p.67-101

3. K. Poznański, Confucian Economics, How is Chinese Thinking Different Economic Journal, 2017,10/3/,s.362-384

IV. Contemporary China’s International Relations Perceptions.

Readings.

1. China’s National Defence in the New Era. The State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China, July 2019. Part I, II, III (p. 2-22), Part VI (42-52).

2. Yi Edward Yong, China,s Strategic Narratives in Global Governance Reform under Xi Jinping, Journal of Contemporary China,2021,no.128. p.299-313

V.China in IR: American Scholar Perspective.

Readings:

1. A. Johnson, Is China a Status-Quo Power, International Security, 2003, no. 4, p. 5-56.

2. J. Mearsheimer, The Gathering Storm: China Challenge to US Power in Asia, Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2010, no. 4, p.380-404.

3. J. Nye, How not to deal with rising China: a US perspective, International Affairs, 2022,no.5,p.1635-1651

VI. China in IR: Chinese Scholar Perspective.

Readings.

1. Feng Liu, Balance of Power ,balance of alignment and China,s role in the regional order transition, The Pacific Review, 2023,no. 2,p. 261-283

2. Xiaoyu Pu, ChengLi Wang, Rethinking China’s Rise. Chinese Scholar Debates Strategic Overstreach, International Affairs, 2018, no. 5, p. 1019-1035.

VII .China in the World Economy.

Readings

1.N. McDonagh, China,s Socialist market economy and the systemic rivalry in the multilateral trade order, Australian Journal of International Affairs,2022,no.6,p. 712-733.

2. Ligang Song, The Future of multilateralism in the Post-pandemic World ,China and the World Economy, 19 January 2023.

VIII. US – China,s Indo-Pacific Strategy

Readings:

1.D Scott, China,s Indo-Pacific Strategy: The problem of Success, Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies of,2019, no.2,p. 94-113

2. C. Fung and others, Conditioning China,s Influence: Internationality ,Intermediaries and Institutions, Journal of Contemporary China, 2023.no.139, p. 1-16

IX. China – EU Relations

Readings:

1.Zhongping Feng, Internal and External Factors affecting China- EU relations, China International Strategy Review,2022,no.1,s. 74-90.

2. N. Casarini, A European Strategic “Third Way”. European Union between traditional transatlantic alliance and the pull of Chinese Market, China International Strategic Review, 2022.no4, p. 91-107.

X. China – US Bipolar system.

Readings:

1 F. Bergsten, China and the United States: The Contest for Global Economic Leadership, China and World Economy, 2018, no. 5, p. 12-37.

2.Ch. Layne, Preventing the China – US Cold War from Turning Hot, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2020, no. 3, p. 343-385.

3. Kai He ,Huiyun Feng, International Order Transition and US- China strategic competition, The Pacific Review, 2023,no. 2,p. 234-260

Course assessment:

1.Course length: 20 h/10 meetings/

2.Discoursive approach will be used as a method of study

3.Class lecture and discussion will be centered on the readings assigned in this syllabus.

4. Final assessment consists of two parts:

a) Students are required to come to all class

b) Students are required to prepare presentation and actively took part in a discussion (positive effects on grade).