Lec # | Topics | Readings |
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1 | Historical and Geographical Legacies | Required![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Singer, J. David. "The Levels of Analysis Problem in International Relations." In The International System: Theoretical Essays. Edited by Klaus Kanor, and Sidney Verba. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961, pp. 77-92. Recommended ![]() Fairbank, John K., ed. "A Preliminary Framework." In The Chinese World Order. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968, pp. 1-19. ISBN: 0196264251. |
2 | 1949-1969: Alliance With the Soviet Union and Its Collapse | Required![]() Yibo, Bo. "The Making of the 'Leaning to One Side' Decision." Chinese Historian 5, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 57-62. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Recommended Ng-Quinn, Michael. "The Analytic Study of Chinese Foreign Policy." International Studies Quarterly 27, no. 2 (June 1983): 203-224. "Symposium on Rethinking the Lost Chance in China." Diplomatic History 21, no. 1 (Winter 1997). ![]() Westad, Odd A., ed. "Introduction." In Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998, pp. 5-32. ISBN: 0804734852. |
3 | 1969-1981: Alignment With the U.S. | Required![]() ![]() ![]() Recommended Ng-Quinn, Michael. "The Effects of Bipolarity on Chinese Foreign Policy." Survey 26, no. 2 (1982): 116-130. Ross, Robert. "From Lin Biao to Deng Xiaoping: Elite Instability and China's U.S. policy." The China Quarterly, no. 118 (June 1989): 265-299. Lieberthal, Kenneth. "Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy." In China's Foreign Policy in the 1980s. Edited by Harry Harding. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984, pp. 43-70. |
4 | 1982-1990s: Nonaligned Foriegn Policy | Required![]() ![]() Hamrin, Carol Lee. "China Reassess the Superpowers." Pacific Affairs 56, no. 2 (Summer 1983): 209-231. Xiaoping, Deng. "Peace And Development Are The Two Outstanding Issues In The World Today." March 4, 1985. ———. "Speech At An Enlarged Meeting Of The Military Commission Of The Central Committee Of The Communist Party Of China." June 4, 1985. ![]() Shambaugh, David. "China's Foreign Policy Connundum since Tiananmen." Issues and Studies (November 1992): 67-8x. Zemin, Jiang. Report to the 14th CPC National Congress in Beijing. October 12, 1992. Recommended Ross, Robert. "International Bargaining and Domestic Politics: U.S.-China Relations since 1972." World Politics 38, no. 2 (June 1986): 255-287. Huaqiu, Liu. "A Powerful Ideological Weapon for Guiding External Work in the New Period -- Understanding Through Study of Deng Xiaoping's Diplomatic Thinking." Renmin Ribao, July 13, 2000. ![]() Kim, Samuel. "Peking's Foreign Policy in the Shadows of Tiananmen." Issues and Studies 27, no. 1 (1991): 39-69. Ross, Robert. "The Diplomacy of Tiananmen: Two-Level Bargaining and Great Power Cooperation." Security Studies 10, no. 2 (Winter 2000/2001): 139-178. |
5 | Foriegn Policy Making | Required![]() ![]() Glaser, Bonnie S., and Phillip C. Saunders. "Chinese Civilian Foreign Policy Research Institutes: Evolving Roles and Increasing Influence." The China Quarterly 171 (September 2002): 601-620. ![]() ![]() Recommended Brady, Anne-Marie. "'Treat Insiders and Outsiders Differently': the Use and Control of Foreigners in China." The China Quarterly, no. 164 (December 2000): 943-964. Johnston, Alastair Iain. "Chinese Middle Class Attitudes Towards International Affairs: Nascent Liberalization?" The China Quarterly, no. 179 (September 2004): 603-628. Downs, Erica Strecker, and Phillip Sanders. "Legitimacy and the Limits of Nationalism: China and the Diaoyutai Islands." International Security 23, no. 3 (Winter 1998/1999): 114-146. ![]() ![]() "Collection of articles on think-tanks." The China Quarterly, no. 171 (September 2002): skim. |
6 | Use of Force | Required Johnston, Alastair Iain. "China's Military Interstate Dispute Behavior: A First Cut at the Data." The China Quarterly, no. 153 (March 1998): 1-30. Whiting, Allen S. "China's Use of Force, 1950-96, and Taiwan." International Security 26, no. 2 (Fall 2001): 103-131. ![]() Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. China's National Defense in 2004. December 2004, Chapters I-IV. Jiang Zemin's Report at 16th Party Congress. "VII. National Defense and Army Building." Gill, Bates, James Mulvenon, and Mark Stokes. "The Chinese Second Artillery Corps: Transition To Credible Deterrence." In The People's Liberation Army as Organization: Reference Vol. v1.0. Edited by James C. Mulvenon, and Andrew N. D. Yang. Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, pp. 510-517, 536-560, skim rest. Brown, Harold, Joseph W. Prueher, and Adam Segal. Chinese Military Power: Report of an Independent Task Force. New York, NY: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2003. Office of the Secretary of Defense. The Military Power of the People's Republic of China (July 2005). (PDF - 1.3 MB) Recommended ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gill, Bates, and Michael O'Hanlon. "China's Hollow Military." The National Interest (Summer 1999): 55-62. Lilley, James R., and Carl Ford. "China's Military: A Second Opinion." The National Interest (Fall 1999): 71-77. |
7 | Rising China's Grand Strategy | Required Baijia, Zhang. "Chinese Domestic and Foreign Policies in the 1990s." In The Age of Uncertainty: The U.S.-China-Japan Triangle from Tiananmen (1989) to 9/11 (2001). Edited by Harvard East Asian Monographs Online, 2005, pp. 61-81. (PDF - 2.1 MB) Friedberg, Aaron. "The Struggle for Mastery in Asia." Commentary (November 2000): 17-26. ![]() ![]() Bijian, Zheng. "A New Path for China's Peaceful Rise and the Future of Asia." 2003. Jiang Zemin's Report at 16th Party Congress. "IX. The International Situation and Our External Work." Recommended Johnston, Alastair Iain. "Is China a Status Quo Power?" International Security 27, no. 4 (Spring 2003): 5-56. Chan, Steve. "Exploring Puzzles In Power-Transition Theory: Implications For Sino-American Relations." Security Studies 13, no. 3 (Spring 2004): 103-141. Deng, Yong. "The Chinese Conception of National Interests in International Relations." The China Quarterly, no. 154 (June 1998): 308-329. Betts, Richard K., and Thomas J. Christensen. "China: Getting the Questions Right." The National Interest (Winter 2000-2001): 17-29. |
8 | Integration With Intergovermental Organizations | Required![]() ![]() ![]() Hongying, Wang. "Multilateralism in Chinese Foreign Policy: The Limits of Socialization." Asian Survey 40, no. 3 (May/June 2000): 475-491. Recommended Economy, Elizabeth C. "The Impact of International Regimes on Chinese Foreign Policy-making." In The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy. Edited by David M. Lampton. pp. 230-253. ![]() Carlson, Allen. "Helping to Keep the Peace (Albeit Reluctantly): China's Recent Stance on Sovereignty and Multilateral Intervention." Pacific Affairs 77, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 1-27. Morphet, Sally. "China as a Permanent Member of the Security Council: October 1971 - December 1999." Security Dialogue 31, no. 2 (June 2000): 151-166. Johnston, Alastair Iain. "Learning versus Adaptation: Explaining Change in Chinese Arms Control Policy in the 1980s and 1990s." The China Journal, no. 35 (January 1996): 27-61. |
9 | Taiwan | Required![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Roy, Denny. "Tensions in the Taiwan Strait." Survival 42, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 76-96. Jiang Zemin's Report at 16th Party Congress. "VIII. "One Country, Two Systems" and Complete National Reunification." Recommended Ross, Robert. "The 1996 Taiwan Strait Confrontation: Coercion, Credibility and Use of Force." International Security 25, no. 2 (Fall 2000): 87-123. Christensen, Thomas J. "The Contemporary Security Dilemma: Deterring a Taiwan Conflict." Washington Quarterly 25, no. 4 (Fall 2002): 7-21. Ross, Robert. "The Stability of Deterrence in the Taiwan Straits." The National Interest (Fall 2001): 67-76. Christensen, Thomas J. "Posing Problems without Catching Up: China's Rise and Challenges for U.S. Security Policy." International Security 25, no. 4 (Spring 2001): 5-40. ![]() Glosny, Michael A. "Strangulation from the Sea? A PRC Submarine Blockade of Taiwan." International Security 28, no. 4 (Spring 2004): 125-160. |
10 | Trade and Economic Relations | Required![]() ![]() ![]() Lee, Pak K. "China's Quest for Oil Security: Oil (Wars) in the Pipeline?" The Pacific Review 18, no. 2 (June 2005): 265-301. Recommended ![]() Yongjin, Zhang. China Goes Global. London, UK: The Foreign Policy Centre, 2005. ISBN: 1903558530. Moore, Thomas G., and Yong Deng. "China Views Globalization: Toward a New Great-Power Politics?" The Washington Quarterly 27, no. 3 (Summer 2004): 117-136. ![]() |
11 | Territorial Disputes and Ambitions | Required![]() Fravel, M. Taylor. "Regime Insecurity and International Cooperation: Explaining China's Compromises in Territorial Disputes." International Security 30, no. 2 (Fall 2005 forthcoming). Li, Nan. "From Revolutionary Internationalism to Conservative Nationalism: The Chinese Military's Discourse on National Security and Identity in the Post-Mao Era." Peaceworks no. 39. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2001. (PDF) Guan, Ang Cheng. "The South China Sea Dispute Revisited." Australian Journal of International Affairs 54, no. 2 (2000): 201-215. Su, Steven Wei. "The Territorial Dispute over the Tiaoyu/Senkaku Islands: An Update." Ocean Development & International Law 36 (2005): 45-61. Recommended Chourci, Nazli, and Robert C. North. "Lateral Pressure in International Relations: Concept and Theory." In Handbook of War Studies. Edited by Manus I. Midlarsky. pp. 289-327. Carlson, Allen. "Constructing the Dragons Scales: China's Approach to Territorial Sovereignty and Border Relations." Journal of Contemporary China 12, no. 37 (November 2003): 677-698. Garver, John W. "China's Push Through the South China Sea: The Interaction of Bureaucratic and National Interests." The China Quarterly, no. 132 (December 1992): 999-1028. |
12 | Regional Engagement and New Diplomacy | Required Shambaugh, David S. "China Engages Asia: Reshaping the Regional Order." International Security 29, no. 3 (Winter 2004/05): 64-99. ![]() Sutter, Robert S. China's Rise in Asia - Promises, Prospects and Implications for the United States. Occasional Paper. Honolulu, HI: Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, 2005. ![]() Kim, Samuel S. "China's New Role In The Nuclear Confrontation." Asian Perspective 28, no. 4 (2004), pp. 147-184. Recommended Ji, You. "China and North Korea A Fragile Relationship of Strategic Convenience." Journal of Contemporary China 10, no. 28 (August 2001): 387-398. Shambaugh, David. "China and the Korean Peninsula." The Washington Quarterly 26, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 43-56. |
13 | Relations With the United States | Required![]() Deng, Yong. "Hegemon on the Offensive: Chinese Perspectives on U.S. Global Strategy." Political Science Quarterly 116, no. 3 (2001): 343-365. Qingguo, Jia. "Learning To Live With The Hegemon: Evolution Of China's Policy Toward The U.S. Since The End Of The Cold War." Journal of Contemporary China 14, no. 44 (August 2005): 395-407. Friedberg, Aaron L. "11 September and the Future of Sino-American Relations." Survival 44, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 33-50. Swaine, Michael. "China: Exploiting a Strategic Opening." Strategic Asia 2004-05. Seattle: NBR, 2004, pp. 67-80 only. Jisi, Wang. "Searching for stability with America." Foreign Affairs 84, no. 5 (September/October 2005): 39-48. Recommended ![]() Ross, Robert S. "The Geography of Peace: East Asia in the Twenty-first Century." International Security 23, no. 4 (Spring 1999): 81-118. Blum, Samantha. "Chinese Views of U.S. Hegemony." Journal of Contemporary China 12, no. 35 (2003): 239-264. Lubman, Stanley. "The Dragon as Demon: Images of China on Capitol Hill." Journal of Contemporary China 13, no. 40 (August 2004): 541-565. |
14 | Relations With Japan | Required Johnson, Chalmers. "The Patterns of Japanese Relations with China, 1952-1982." Pacific Affairs 59, no. 3 (Fall 1986): 402-428. Tuosheng, Zhang. "Sino-Japanese Relations at the Turn of the Century (1992 to 2001)." In The Age of Uncertainty. Edited by Ezra Vogel et al. pp. 227-253. (PDF - 2.1 MB) Gries, Peter H. "China's 'New Thinking on Japan'." The China Quarterly (forthcoming 2005). Christensen, Thomas J. "China, The U.S.-Japan Alliance, And The Security Dilemma In East Asia." International Security 23, no. 4 (Spring 1999): 49-80. Roy, Denny. "The Sources and Limits of Sino-Japanese Tensions." Survival 47, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 191-214. Recommended ![]() Rozman, Gilbert. "China's Changing Images of Japan, 1989-2001: The Struggle To Balance Partnership and Rivalry." International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 2, no. 1 (2002): 95-130. Sutter, Robert. "China and Japan: Trouble Ahead?" The Washington Quarterly 25, no. 4 (Autumn 2002): 37-49. Wan, Ming. "Tensions in Recent Sino-Japanese Relations: The May 2002 Shenyang Incident." Asian Survey 43, no. 5 (September/October 2003): 826-844. |