This course is available on the BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and Chinese, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and International Relations. This course is not available as an outside option. This course is available to General Course students.
This course is available on the BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and Chinese, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and International Relations. This course is not available as an outside option. This course is available to General Course students.
20 hours of classes in the MT. 2 hours of classes in the ST. Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6, in line with departmental policy.
Students will write two essays with a maximum length of 2,000 words and present on class topics.
William A. Callahan, China the Pessoptimist Nation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010); Thomas J. Christensen, The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power (New York: W.W. Norton, 2015). Aaron L. Friedberg, A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia (New York: W.W.Norton, 2011); Jonathan Holslag, China?s Coming War with Asia (Cambridge: Polity, 2015). Alastair Iain Johnston and Robert S. Ross, eds, Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power (London: Routledge, 1999); Rex Li, A Rising China and Security in East Asia: Identity Construction and Security Discourse (Abingdon: Routledge, 2009); Gilbert Rozman, Chinese Strategic Thought toward Asia (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); David Shambaugh, ed., Power Shift: China and Asia's New Dynamics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005); Sheila Smith, Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China (New: Columbia University Press, 2015). Ian Storey, Southeast Asia and the Rise of China: The search for security (London: Routledge, 2011); Robert G. Sutter, U.S.-Chinese Relations: Perilous Past, Pragmatic Present, 2nd ed (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013); Michael Yahuda, Sino-Japanese Relations After the Cold War: Two Tigers Sharing a Mountain (Abingdon: Routledge, 2013).
Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer exam period.