Prof William Callahan CBG.9.05

This course is available on the BSc in International Relations and BSc in International Relations and Chinese. This course is not available as an outside option. This course is available with permission to General Course students.

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 survey 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 on China's relations with the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and on the topical issues of the Belt and Road Initiative, and global cyber-politics.

10 hours of lectures and 12 hours of classes in the MT. 18 hours of classes in the LT.

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

Students will complete two 1500-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.

• Economy, Elizabeth C., The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State, Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Yahuda, Michael, The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific, 4 edn. London: Routledge, 2019.
• 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.
• Shambaugh, David. China Goes Global. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Liao, Xuanli Chinese Foreign Policy Think Tanks and China's Policy Towards Japan. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2006.

Essay (75%, 2500 words) in the ST.
Presentation (25%) in the MT and LT.

During the course of the seminars students will participate in a group presentation (25%) and submit a 2500 word essay (75%) at the start of the ST.

It is permissible for the summative essays to be on the same topic(s) as the formative essays and presentations.

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