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週次
Week
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課程主題
Topic
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課程內容與指定閱讀
Content and Reading Assignment
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教學活動與作業
Teaching Activities and Homework
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學習投入時間
Student workload expectation
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課堂講授
In-class Hours
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課程前後
Outside-of-class Hours
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1
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Course Introduction
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The weekly topic is assigned with two articles (journal articles or book chapters).
For a detailed syllabus, please see the course attachment.
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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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3
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0
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2
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228 Memorial Day
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(No Class)
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0
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0
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3
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Tsarist and Soviet Foreign Policy
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- Robert H. Donaldson, Joseph L. Nogee, and Vidya Nadkarni, The Foreign Policy of Russia: Changing Systems, Enduring Interests, 5th ed. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2014), ch. 2.
- Donaldson, Nogee, and Nadkarni, The Foreign Policy of Russia, 5th ed., chs. 3-4.
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Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading
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3
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6
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4
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The Sources and Making of Russian Foreign Policy
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- Donaldson, Nogee, and Nadkarni, The Foreign Policy of Russia, 5th ed., ch. 5.
- Michael McFaul, “Putin, Putinism, and the Domestic Determinants of Russian Foreign Policy,” International Security, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Fall 2020), pp. 95-139.
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Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading
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3
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6
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5
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The Return of Global Russia
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- Nikolai Silaev, “Russia and Its Allies in Three Strategic Environments,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 74, No. 4 (May 2022), pp. 598-619.
- Sergei Karaganov, “Russian Foreign Policy: Three Historical Stages and Two Future Scenarios,” Russian Politics 6 (2021), pp. 416-434.
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Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading
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3
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6
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6
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Greater Eurasia and Eurasian Regionalism
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- 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.
- Alexander Libman, “Does Integration Rhetoric Help? Eurasian Regionalism and the Rhetorical Dissonance of Russian Elites,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 74, No. 9 (Nov. 2022), pp. 1574-1595.
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Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading
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3
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6
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7
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Intercollegiate Activities
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(No Class)
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0
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0
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8
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The Social Construction of Russia’s Resurgence
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- Andrei P. Tsygankov, Russia’s Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity, 4th 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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3
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6
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9
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Russian Public Diplomacy
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- Ralph S. Clem et al., “Russian Anti-Western Disinformation, Media Consumption and Public Opinion in Georgia,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 75, No. 9 (Nov. 2023), pp. 1535-1559.
- Ignat Vershinin, “The Role of Discursive Practices in Public Diplomacy and International Relations: The Case of Russia-Japan Relations,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 75, No. 9 (Nov. 2023), pp. 1560-1578.
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Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading
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3
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6
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10
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Russia and the Post-Soviet Space
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- Elias Gotz, “Taking the Longer View: A Neoclassical Realist Account of Russia’s Neighbourhood Policy,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 74, No. 9 (Nov. 2022), pp. 1729-1763.
- Tracey German, “Russia and the South Caucasus: The China Challenge,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 74, No. 9 (Nov. 2022), pp. 1596-1615.
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Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading
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3
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6
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11
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Russo-Ukrainian War
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- Harald Edinger, “Offensive Ideas: Structural Realism, Classical Realism and Putin’s War on Ukraine,” International Affairs, Vol. 98, No. 6 (2022), pp. 1873-1893.
- Andrei P. Tsygankov, “Between War and Peace: Russian Visions of Future Relations with Ukraine and the West,” Russian Politics 8 (2023), pp. 230-246.
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Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading
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3
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6
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12
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Russia and the EU/NATO
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- Vladimir Ryzhkov, “From ‘Greater Europe’ to Confrontation: Is a ‘Common European Home’ Still Possible?” Russian Politics 6 (2021), pp. 551-571.
- Hilary Appel and Jennifer Taw, “Has Russia’s Anti-NATO Agenda Succeeded?” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 68, No. 6 (2021), pp. 468-476.
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Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading
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3
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6
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13
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Russia and the United States
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- Angela Stent, “Trump’s Russia Legacy and Biden’s Response,” Survival, Vol. 63, No. 4 (August-September 2021), pp. 55-80.
- Richard Sokolsky and Eugene Rumer, “U.S.-Russian Relations in 2030,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading
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3
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6
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14
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Russia and Asia
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- Glenn Diesen, “The Geoeconomics of the Russian-Japanese Territorial Dispute,” Asian Survey, Vol. 58, No. 3 (2018), pp. 582-605.
- Spenser A. Warren and Sumit Ganguly, “India-Russia Relations after Ukraine,” Asian Survey, Vol. 62, Nos. 5-6 (2022), pp. 811-837.
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Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading
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3
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6
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15
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Russia and China
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- Jeffrey Mankoff, “The East Wind Prevails? Russia’s Response to China’s Eurasian Ambitions,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 74, No. 9 (Nov. 2022), pp. 1616-1639..
- Igor Denisov and Alexander Lukin, “Russia’s China Policy: Growing Asymmetries and Hedging Options,” Russian Politics 6 (2021), pp. 531-550.
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Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading
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3
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6
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16
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Russia and Other Regions
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- Seckin Kostem, “Managed Regional Rivalry Between Russia and Turkey After the Annexation of Crimea,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 74, No. 9 (Nov. 2022), pp. 1657-1675.
- Ekaterina Kosevich, “Russia’s Relations with the Countries of Latin America at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Four Levels of Interstate Interaction,” Russian Politics 7 (2022), pp. 450-484.
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Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading
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3
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6
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17&18
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Flexible Learning
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No reading assignments
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Independent research on final paper; One-on-One meeting by appointment
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0
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0
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