Prof William Callahan CLM.5.07 and Prof Christopher Hughes 95A.1.15

This course is available on the MSc in International Relations, MSc in International Relations (LSE and Sciences Po) and MSc in International Relations (Research). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

All students are required to obtain permission from the Teacher Responsible by completing the Student Statement box on the online application form linked to course selection on LSE for You. Admission is not guaranteed.

This course will provide students with an historical overview of the development of Chinese foreign and security policy, the theoretical concepts used for analysing the making of Chinese foreign policy, and an up-to-date consideration of China’s evolving relations around the world. The first five weeks will be dedicated to providing a long historical perspective, and use a number of case studies to show how basic factors used in foreign policy analysis shape policy outcomes, including economic factors, the role of perception, geopolitical influences, bureaucratic politics, nationalism, and socialisation into the international system. The remainder of the course will involve analysing case studies of how China uses its economic, military and soft power in its relations with the United States, Asia, Europe, and middle powers (Australia, Norway, Canada), and with international institutions such as the WTO, the UN and various regional organizations. The course also examines China’s foreign policy in terms of alternative world orders.

Watch a short introductory video on this course: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/internationalrelations/video/IR445-CFSP-video.aspx 

10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars in the MT. 22 hours of seminars in the LT.

Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6, in line with departmental policy. 

Students will complete three 2,000 word essays during the course and will make two presentations to the seminar. It is permissible for the presentations to be on the same topics as the essays.

• French, Howard. Everything under the heavens: how the past helps shape China's push for global power. London: Scribe UK, 2017.
• Christensen, Thomas J. The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power. New York: W.W. Norton, 2015.
• Johnston, Alistair Iain. Social States: China in International Institutions, 1980-2000. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008.
• Liao, Xuanli, Chinese Foreign Policy Think Tanks and China's Policy Towards Japan. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2006. MC DS779.47 L69
• Holslag, Jonathan China+India: Prospects for Peace, New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
• Shambaugh, David. China Goes Global. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Yahuda, Michael. Sino-Japanese Relations After the Cold War: Two Tigers Sharing a Mountain. New York: Routledge, 2013.
• Yahuda, Michael and David Shambaugh. International Relations of Asia. New York: Routledge, 2014.
• Christensen, Thomas J. The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power. New York: W.W. Norton, 2015.
• Johnston, Alistair Iain. Social States: China in International Institutions, 1980-2000. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008.
• Liao, Xuanli, Chinese Foreign Policy Think Tanks and China's Policy Towards Japan. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2006. MC DS779.47 L69
• Holslag, Jonathan China+India: Prospects for Peace, New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
• Shambaugh, David. China Goes Global. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Yahuda, Michael. Sino-Japanese Relations After the Cold War: Two Tigers Sharing a Mountain. New York: Routledge, 2013.
• Yahuda, Michael and David Shambaugh. International Relations of Asia. New York: Routledge, 2014.

Exam (100%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period.