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Introduction

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World Politics and the Global system: An Overview

Walter Russell Mead, “ The Return of Geopolitics”

G. John Ikenberry, “The Illusion of Geopolitics”,

Foreign Afairs, May/June 2014, pp. 69-91.

Brantly Womack, “Asymmetric parity: US–China relations in a multinodal world” , International Affairs, Nov. 2016.

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The Trump revolution and global change

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, “How a democracy dies”

New Republic, Dec, 2017

Joseph S. Nye Jr, “Will the Liberal Order Survive?the History of an Idea”

Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb, 2017

Pankaj Ghemawat , “Globalization in the age of Trump”, Harvard Business Review, July, 2017

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Debating the Rise of China

David A Lake, “Domination, Authority, and the Forms of Chinese Power”

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 10, Issue 4, 1 December 2017, Pages 357–382,

Yan Xuetong , “From Keeping a Low Profile to Striving for

Achievement”, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2014, Vol. 7, No. 2

Rumi Aoyama, Chapter One, “China’s Grand Strategy as a Rising Power”, in Tse-Kang Leng and Rumi Aoyama ed, Decoding the rise of China,(Palgrave, 2017).

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Chinese Foreign Behaviors: Assertive Policies or status-quo Power?

Zheng Yongnian, Lim Wen Xin, “The Changing Geopolitical Landscape, China and the World Order in the 21st Century” , China: an International Journal, February, 2017. pp. 4-23

Hu Weixing, “China and the United States in the Asia-Pacific: Towards a New Model or New Normal of Major Power Relations?” China: an International Journal, February, 2017, pp. 63-82

Takeshi Uemura Chapter Four, “Philosophy, Culture, and Sino-Japanese Relations”in Tse-Kang Leng and Rumi Aoyama ed. Decoding the rise of China,(Palgrave, 2017).

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US foreign policy and Sino-American relations

“2017 US China economic and security report to the Congress”

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Taiwan’s domestic linkages to the global system

Chapter12, 13, 29, Gunter Schubert ed. Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan (Routledge, 2016)

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Midterm evaluation

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Challenges of Cross-Taiwan strait relations

Josh Wenger, Ming-tong Chen,”Prospects for Cross-Strait Political Negotiation: Exploring Win-Sets”, China Quarterly, Dec 2017

Dean P. Chen , “Liberal Internationalism, Jacksonian Nationalism, and the US One China Policy”, Asian survey , Oct 2017

Austin Horng-En Wang, “The Waning Effect of China’s Carrot and Stick Policies on Taiwanese PeopleClamping Down on Growing National Identity?”, Asian Survey, June 2017

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Political economy of digital and energy transformation

Mckinsey Global Institute, “China’s digital economy: a leading global force”, August, 2017

Jinghan Zeng, “China's date with big data: will it strengthen or threaten authoritarian rule?” , International Affairs, November, 2016.

“The Changing Political Economy of Energy in China ‘s Market Dynamics and Policy Developments” , CSIS report, December 14, 2016

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China’s Belt and Road Initiatives

“Three years of China’s new silk road”, IFRI report, Paris, 2017

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Arctic diplomacy of US and the High North

Ronald O'Rourke , “Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress” , December 21, 2017

Ekaterina Klimenko, “Russia’s Arctic Security Policy,” SIPRI policy report, 2016.

“Update of Finland’s Action Plan for Arctic Strategies”, March, 2017

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China’s proactive diplomacy in the Arctic region

Marc Lanteigne,

‘Have you entered the storehouses of the snow?’ China as a norm entrepreneur in the Arctic “, Polar Record, January, 2017

Selected chapters, Anne-Marie Brady , China as a Polar Great Power, (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

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Cultural policy and soft power in the global system

Elena Meyer-Clement, “The evolution of Chinese film policy: how to adapt an instrument for hegemonic rule to commercialisation”, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol. 23, Issue 4, 2017.

Changwook Kim, “Locating creative city policy in East Asia: neoliberalism, developmental state and assemblage of East Asian cities”, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol. 23, Issue 3, 2017.

Antonios Vlassis, “Soft power, global governance of cultural industries and rising powers: the case of China”, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol. 22, Issue 4, 2016.

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Global change and historical preservation in US , China and Taiwan

Yao, Y. and R. B. Han. “Challenging, but Not Trouble-making: Cultural Elites in China’s Urban Heritage Preservation.” Journal of Contemporary China 25, no. 98 (2016): 292-306.

Max Page, Why preservation matters, (Yale University Press, 2016)

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Public diplomacy and global change

Gary Rawnsley, “Soft Power Rich, Public Diplomacy Poor: An Assessment of Taiwan's External Communications”, China Quarterly , Dec 2017

Kristin Vekasi, ”Transforming Geopolitical Risk: Public Diplomacy of Multinational Firms for Foreign Audiences”, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 10, Issue 1, 1 March 2017, Pages 95–129,

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