SemesterSpring Semester, 2020
DepartmentInternational Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, First Year International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Second Year International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Third Year International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Fourth Year
Course NameTaiwan, China and United State in the International System
InstructorLENG TSE-KANG
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule








 

































































































Week



Topics



Assigned readings



 



1



Introduction



 



 



2



World Politics and the Global system: An Overview



Walter Russell Mead, “ The Return of Geopolitics”



 



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



 



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



 



 



 



3



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



 



1



4



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, 2018).



 



2



5



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, 2018).



 



3



6



US foreign policy and Sino-American relations



 



Hoover Institution, “Chinese influences and American interests”, 2018. Selected chapters.



 



4



7



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



 



 



5



8



China’s Belt and Road Initiatives and beyond



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



6



9



Arctic diplomacy and power politics



 



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



 



 



 



10



Guest speaker Lecture:



To be confirmed



 



11



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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12



Global change and historical preservation in China



 



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



 



 



8



13



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,



 



9



14,15



Future prospects



John Mearsheimyer, The Great Delusion



 




 



 



 



 



 




Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

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Requirement/Grading

Class presentation: 30%



Class participation: 30%



      Final proposal : 40%


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