Week
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Topics
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Assigned readings
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1
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Introduction
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2
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World Politics and the Global system: An Overview
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Walter Russell Mead, “ The Return of Geopolitics”
G. John Ikenberry, “The Illusion of Geopolitics”,
Foreign Affairs, May/June 2014, pp. 69-91.
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3
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The Trump revolution and global change
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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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1
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4
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Debating the Rise of China
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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, 2018).
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2
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5
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Chinese Foreign Behaviors: Assertive Policies or status-quo Power?
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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, 2018).
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3
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6
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US foreign policy and Sino-American relations
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Hoover Institution, “Chinese influences and American interests”, 2018. Selected chapters.
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4
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7
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Challenges of Cross-Taiwan strait relations
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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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5
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8
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China’s Belt and Road Initiatives and beyond
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“Three years of China’s new silk road”, IFRI report, Paris, 2017
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6
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9
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Arctic diplomacy and power politics
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Ronald O'Rourke , “Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress” , December 21, 2017
Calmilla Sorensen and Ekaterina Klimenko, “Emerging Chinese-Russian Cooperation in the Arctic,” SIPRI policy report, 2017.
Marc Lanteigne,
‘Have you entered the storehouses of the snow?’ China as a norm entrepreneur in the Arctic “, Polar Record, January, 2017
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10
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Guest speaker Lecture:
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To be confirmed
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11
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Cultural policy and soft power in the global system
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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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7
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12
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Global change and historical preservation in China
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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.
Tse-Kang Leng and Rung-yi Chen, “Local state adaptation and grassroots participation: Tianjin and Nanjing’s preservation of cultural relics in comparative aspects”, Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies, Vol 6, No.2, December, 2017
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8
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13
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Public diplomacy and global change
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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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9
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14,15
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Future prospects
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John Mearsheimyer, The Great Delusion
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