Unit name | Contemporary Chinese Foreign Policy |
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Unit code | POLIM0033 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Professor. Zhang |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
Students will be unable to take this Unit if they have already taken the equivalent H level unit POLI30023. |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
PLEASE NOTE – this unit is only available for students registered on MSci Politics with Quantitative Research Methods or MSci Sociology with Quantitative Research Methods.
This unit is designed to engage students in critical examination of key challenges to Chinese foreign policy and international relations. It looks at how history, geography and domestic politics combined help shape China’s world outlook, as well as the motivations, objectives and drivers of Chinese foreign policy. It also examines the structure and processes of Chinese foreign policy-making in China’s Party-state political system with particular reference to the new leadership of Xi Jinping. Within this analytical framework, major challenges to Chinese foreign policy are to be discussed, including China’s great power relations with the US and Japan, China’s pursuit of regionalism in East Asia, and China’s engagement with economic globalization and global governance. Through these discussions, the global impact of a rising China is also to be debated.
This unit aims to help students:
Understand the impact of a rising China on the transformation of the regional and global international system.
On successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:
1 hour lecture + 2 hours seminar per week
Both assess all learning outcomes.
Christensen, Thomas (2015) The China Challenge: Shaping the Choice of a Rising Power, New York: W. W. Norton.
Deng, Yong (2008) China’s Struggle for Status: Realignment of International Relations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Jakobson, Linda and Dean Knox (2010) New Foreign Policy Actors in China, SIPRI Policy Paper No. 26, Stockholm: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Nathan, Andrew and Andrew Scobell (2014) China’s Search for Security, New York: Columbia University Press.
Shambaugh, David (2013) China Goes Global: The Partial Power, New York: Oxford University Press.
Wang, Jisi (2011) ‘China’s Search for a Grand Strategy—A Rising Power Finds Its Way’, Foreign Affairs, 90 (2): 68-79.