Type of Credit: Elective
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This is a seminar-based course. Students must participate actively in class discussions. Participants are required to finish the readings before the weekly class meeting starts.
Registered students must make at least two formal presentations in class:
能力項目說明
Based on oral presentations, students will discuss and debate major viewpoints in class.
Instructor will lead the discussions, lecture supplemental topics, and raise further questions.
| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
|---|---|---|
1 Introduction and Organization
2 Background Review
Shellen Wu, Birth of the Geopolitical Age (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023)
Chapter 7
John Mearsheimer, “Structural realism”,
https://www.commackschools.org/Downloads/8_mearsheimer-_structural_realism.pdf
3 The “China Threat” debate and Sino-American relations
Suisheng Zhao, 2019. “Engagement on the Defensive: From the Mismatched Grand Bargain to the Emerging US–China Rivalry,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 28, No. 118, pp. 501-518.
Joseph Nye, “Will the liberal order survive? History of an idea”, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2017, P. 10-16
Bateman, Jon. 2022. U.S.-China Technological “Decoupling”: A Strategy and Policy Framework. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. P. 35-52
https://carnegieendowment.org/files/Bateman_US-China_Decoupling_final.pdf
4 Continuity and change of Chinese foreign policy
Yan Xuetong, 2014. “From Keeping a Low Profile to Striving for Achievement,”
The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 153-184.
Kastner, Scott L. , Margaret M. Pearson, and Chad Rector. 2020. “China and Global Governance: Opportunistic Multilateralism.” Global Policy, 11(1): 164-169.
Xue Gong and D. Balazs, 2021. “Emerging Soft Turn in China's Energy Security Cooperation with Southeast Asia,” China Review, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 109-140.
5 High-Tech Wars
Larry Diamond ed. Silicon Triangle ( Hoover Institution, 2023); selected chapters.
6 Domestic sources of US-China Rivalry
Linda Weissa and Elizabeth Thurbonb， “Developmental State or Economic Statecraft? Where, Why and How the Difference Matters”， New Political Economy, 2021, VOL. 26, NO. 3, 472–489
Fewsmith, Joseph, 2021. “Balances, Norms and Institutions: Why Elite Politics in the CCP Have Not Institutionalized.” The China Quarterly, Vol. 248, pp. 265-282.
Szu-yin Ho, “Cross Strait Relations,” Chapter 15, in Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. (August 17, 2020)
Lin, Dalton, 2022. ““One China” and the Cross-Taiwan Strait Commitment Problem.” The China Quarterly, Vol. 252, pp. 1094-1116.
Thomas J. Christensen, M. Taylor Fravel, Bonnie S. Glaser, Andrew J. Nathan, Jessica Chen Weiss, “How to Avoid a War Over Taiwan:Threats, Assurances, and Effective Deterrence”, Foreign Affairs, October 13, 2022
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/how-avoid-war-over-taiwan#author-info
8 midterm exam week
9 Video Comments and Discussion
10 Major Power politics in the Arctic region: the US Perspective
“Defending America’s Northern Border and Its Arctic Approaches”, Brookings Institute, 2023.
“Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for the Congress,” March,2022; Keep updating
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R41153.pdf
Rush Doshi, Alexis Dale-Huang, and Gaoqi Zhang, 2021. “Northern Expedition : China’s Artic Activities and Ambitions,” Brookings Institution.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/northern-expedition-chinas-arctic-activities-and-ambitions/
11 Major Power politics in the Arctic region: other players
NBR Report, “Asian States’ Arctic approaches: Opportunities for engagement”, January, 2023.
https://www.nbr.org/publication/asian-states-arctic-approaches-opportunities-for-engagement/
Kossa, Martin, Lomaeva, Marina and Saunavaara, Juha, 2021. “East Asian Subnational Government Involvement in the Arctic: a Case for Paradiplomacy?” The Pacific Review, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 664-695.
Tung, Nguyen Cong, 2022. “Uneasy embrace: Vietnam’s responses to the U.S. Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy amid U.S.–China rivalry.”
Pacific Review, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 884-914.
Kuik Cheng-Chwee, 2020. “Hedging in Post-pandemic Asia: What , How , and Why,” The Asan Forum.
https://theasanforum.org/hedging-in-post-pandemic-asia-what-how-and-why/ .
Shin-wha Lee and Chun Young Park, 2017. “Korea's Middle Power Diplomacy for Human Security: A Global and Regional Approach,” Journal of International and Area Studies, Vo. 24, No. 1, pp. 21-44.
13Guest Speaker (tentative )
14 Culture，Memories, History and International relations
Yuan-kang Wang, 2020. “The Durability of a Unipolar System: Lessons from
East Asian History,” Security Studies, Vol, 29, No. 5, pp. 832-863.
David C. Kang, 2010. “Hierarchy and Legitimacy in International Systems: The Tribute System in Early Modern East Asia,” Security Studies, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 591-622.
Nissim Otmazgin, 2021. “An "East Asian" Public Diplomacy? Lessons from Japan, South Korea, and China.” Asian Perspective, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 621-644.
15 group discussion section I
16 Dragon Boat Festial
17 group discussion section 2
18 Conclusion/ Final exam week
Based on oral presentations, students will discuss and debate major viewpoints in class.
Instructor will lead the discussions, lecture supplemental topics, and raise further questions.
Grading:
Class participation and presentations: 65%
Pioneers proposal.: 35%
Please refer to the syllabus