週次

Week

課程主題

Topic

課程內容與指定閱讀

Content and Reading Assignment

教學活動與作業

Teaching Activities and Homework

學習投入時間

Student workload expectation

課堂講授

In-class Hours

課程前後

Outside-of-class Hours

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Course Introduction

The weekly topic is assigned with two articles (journal articles or book chapters).

Please see the attached file for a detailed syllabus.

Twice a semester, students must prepare a ten-minute oral presentation, based on one of the assigned articles of their choice.

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Tsarist and Soviet Foreign Policy

• Robert H. Donaldson, Joseph L. Nogee, and Vidya Nadkarni, The Foreign Policy of Russia: Changing Systems, Enduring Interests, 5^th ed. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2014), ch. 2.


• Donaldson, Nogee, and Nadkarni, The Foreign Policy of Russia, 5^th ed., chs. 3-4.

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The Sources and Making of Russian Foreign Policy

• Donaldson, Nogee, and Nadkarni, The Foreign Policy of Russia, 5^th ed., ch. 5.


• Nikolas K. Gvosdev and Christopher Marsh, Russian Foreign Policy: Interests, Vectors, and Sectors (Los Angeles, CA: CQ Press, 2014), ch.2.

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The Return of Global Russia

• Elias Gotz and Camille-Renaud Merlen, “Russia and the Question of World Order,” European Politics and Society, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2019), pp. 133-153.


• Paul Stronski and Richard Sokolsky, “The Return of Global Russia: An Analytical Framework,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,

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Eurasianism and Greater Eurasia

• Peter J. Katzenstein and Nicole Weygandt, “Mapping Eurasia in an Open World: How the Insularity of Russia’s Geopolitical and Civilizational Approaches Limits Its Foreign Policies,” Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 15, No. 2 (June 2017), pp. 428-442.


• David G. Lewis, “Geopolitical Imaginaries in Russian Foreign Policy: The Evolution of ‘Greater Eurasia’,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 70, No. 10 (Dec. 2018), pp. 1612-1637.

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The Social Construction of Russia’s Resurgence

• Andrei P. Tsygankov, Russia’s Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity, 4^th ed. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), ch. 1.


• Deborah Welch Larson, “Russia Says No: Power, Status, and Emotions in Foreign Policy,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 47 (2014), pp. 269-279.

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Soft Power and Russian Foreign Policy

• Valentina Feklyunina, “Soft Power and Identity: Russia, Ukraine and the ‘Russian World(s)’,” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 22, No. 4 (2016), pp. 773-796.


• Anna Matveeva, “Russia’s Power Projection after the Ukraine Crisis,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 70, No. 5 (July 2018), pp. 711-737.

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Hard Power and Russian Foreign Policy

• Bettina Renz, “Russian Responses to the Changing Character of War,” International Affairs, Vol. 95, No. 4 (2019), pp. 817-834.


• Kristin Ven Bruusgaard, “Russian Strategic Deterrence,” Survival, Vol. 58, No. 4 (August-September 2016), pp. 7-26.

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Conflict and Cooperation in the Post-Soviet Space I

• Andrej Krickovic and Maxim Bratersky, “Benevolent Hegemon, Neighborhood Bully, or Regional Security Provider? Russia’s Efforts to Promote Regional Integration after the 2013-2014 Ukraine Crisis,” Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 57, No. 2 (2016), pp. 180-202.


• Jeanne L. Wilson, “The Russian Pursuit of Regional Hegemony,” Rising Powers Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2017), pp. 7-25.

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Conflict and Cooperation in the Post-Soviet Space II

• Tatyana Malyarenko and Stefan Wolff, “The Logic of Competitive Influence-Seeking: Russia, Ukraine, and the Conflict in Donbas,” Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 34, No. 4 (2018), pp. 191-212.


• Paul D’Anieri, “Magical Realism: Assumptions, Evidence and Prescriptions in the Ukraine Conflict,” Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 60, No. 1 (2019), pp. 97-117.

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Russia and the EU/NATO

• Marco Siddi, “The Role of Power in EU-Russia Energy Relations: The Interplay between Markets and Geopolitics,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 70, No. 10 (Dec. 2018), pp. 1552-1571.


• Andrei P. Tsygankov, “The Sources of Russia’s Fear of NATO,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 51 (2018), pp. 101-111.

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Russia and the United States

• Andrew C. Kuchins, “Mismatched Partners: US-Russia Relations after the Cold War,” in David Cadier and Margot Light, eds., Russia’s Foreign Policy: Ideas, Domestic Politics and External Relations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), ch. 7.


• Eugene Rumer and Richard Sokolsky, “Thirty Years of U.S. Policy Toward Russia: Can the Vicious Circle Be Broken?” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,

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Russia and the Middle East

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  Nikolay Kozhanov, “Russian Policy Across the Middle East: Motivations and Methods,” Russia and Eurasian Programme, Chatham House,

  
  
  

  https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/publications/research/2018-02-21-russian-policy-middle-east-kozhanov.pdf

  
  


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  Kimberly Marten, “Informal Political Networks and Putin’s Foreign Policy: The Examples of Iran and Syria,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 62 (2015), pp. 71-87.

  
  

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Russia and Asia

• Stephen Fortescue, “Russia’s ‘Turn to the East’: A Study in Policy Making,” Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 32, No. 5 (2016), pp. 423-454.


• Glenn Diesen, “The Geoeconomics of the Russian-Japanese Territorial Dispute,” Asian Survey, Vol. 58, No. 3 (2018), pp. 582-605.

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Russia and China

• Elizabeth Wishnick, “In Search of the ‘Other’ in Asia: Russia-China Relations Revisited,” The Pacific Review, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2017), pp. 114-132.


• Tom Roseth, “Moscow’s Response to a Rising China: Russia’s Partnership Policies in Its Military Relations with Beijing,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 66, No. 4 (2019), pp. 268-286.

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Russia and Latin America, and Africa

• Elena Pavlova, “A Russian Challenge to Multipolarity? The Prospects for Political Cooperation between Russia and Latin America,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 65, No. 6 (2018), pp. 394-408.


• Paul Stronski, “Late to the Party: Russia’s Return to Africa,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,

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Final Paper

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