School of Social Sciences International Status of Mainland China Spring 2009 Professor Ming Lee Professor Chung-chian Teng Department of Diplomacy Course description: Despite the title, this course is a graduate seminar on the foreign relations of the People s Republic of China. The major objective of this course is to introduce China s strategy, foreign policy-making process, China s relations with the other major powers, the pattern of China s international behavior on regional issues and in international institutes, and the prospects for China s foreign relations over the next several decades. The course will meet on Thursday from 6:10 to 9:00, in General Building 270104 Classroom. There are reading assignments for each week listed below. Course Requirements: (1) Students are expected to attend the class regularly and join the discussion actively. (2) Each student has to lead, at least, one session discussion. (3) Each student has to turn in in-class review report and term paper. Course Evalution: (1) seminar attendance/participation 10%; (2) in-class review report (2-3 pages summery and critique of assigned reading each week) 40% (3) term paper (10-15 pages with topic related to globalization and regional integration) 50%. Text and Reference Material: Deng, Yong (Ed.). China Rising. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. Eisenman, Joshua, Eric Heginbotham, & Derek Mitchell (Eds.) China 1
and the Developing World: Beijing s Strategy for the Twenty-First Century. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2007. (337.5101724 C539) Gill, Bates. Rising Star: China s New Security Diplomacy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. Goldstein, Avery. Rising to the Challenge: China s Grand Strategy and International Security. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. (355.033051 G624) Gu, George Zhibin. China s Global Reach, Revised and Updated Edition. Palo Alto, CA: Fultus Books, 2006. (338.951 G896) Johnston, Alastair J. & Robeert S. Ross (Eds.) New Directions in the Study of China s Foreign Policy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Lam, Willy Wo-Lap. Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era. New York: M. E. Sharp, 2006. Lampton, David M. (Ed.) The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. (327.51 M235) Shambaugh, David (Ed.) Power Shift. Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2005. Shirk, Susan L. China: Fragile Superpower. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. (320.951 S558) Zhao, Quansheng. Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. (327.51 Z63) Zhao, Suisheng (Ed.) Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. (327.51 C539-V) Course Schedule China s Grand Strategy Avery Goldstein, China s Changing Strategic Landscape, in Rising to the Challenge: China s Grand Strategy and International Security. Avery Goldstein, Stimuli for a New Strategy, in Rising to the Challenge: China s Grand Strategy and International Security. Avery Goldstein, Will the Current Grand Strategy Endure, in Rising to the Challenge: China s Grand Strategy and International Security. Avery Goldstein, The Rising Challenge, in Rising to the Challenge: China s Grand Strategy and International Security. 2
China s Security Environment Lampton, China s Foreign and National Security Policy-making Process, in The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy, Edited by David M. Lampton. Rex Li, Security Challenge of an Ascendant China, in Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior, edited by Suisheng Zhao. Yong Deng, Reputation and the Security Dilemma, New Directions in the Study of China s Foreign Policy. China s New Security Diplomacy Bates Gill, The New Security Diplomacy, in Rising Star: China s New Security Diplomacy. Bates Gill, Regional Security Mechanism, in Rising Star: China s New Security Diplomacy. Bates Gill, Nonproliferation and Arms Control, in Rising Star: China s New Security Diplomacy. Jing-dong Yuan, China s Pragmatic Approach to Nonproliferation Policy in the Post-Cold War Era, in Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior, edited by Suisheng Zhao. Domestic Factors of China s Foreign Relations H. Lyman Miller & Liu Xiaohong, The Foreign Policy Outlook of China s Third Generation Elite, in The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy, Edited by David M. Lampton. Joseph Fewsmith & Stanley Rosen, The Domestic Context of Chinese Foreign Policy, in The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy, Edited by David M. Lampton. Shirk, Susan L., Strong Abroad but Fragile at Home, in China: Fragile Superpower. Shirk, Susan L., China s Economic Miracle, in China: Fragile Superpower. Shirk, Susan L., Domestic Threats, in China: Fragile Superpower. Domestic Factors of China s Foreign Relations: Nationalism Zhao, Quansheng. Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy, Ch. 7 Modernization, Nationalism, and Regionalism. Suisheng Zhao, Chinese Nationalism and Pragmatic Foreign Policy Behavior, in Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior, edited by Suisheng Zhao. 3
Shirk, Susan L., The Echo Chamber of Nationalism: Media and the Internet, in China: Fragile Superpower. Peter H. Gries, Nationalism and Chinese Foreign Policy, in China Rising. Lam, willy, The Challenge of Nationalism,and Other Ideas and Trends for the New Century Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era. China in International Society Suisheng Zhao, Beijing s Perception of the International System and Foreign Policy Adjustment after Tiananmen Incident, in Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior, edited by Suisheng Zhao. Allen Carlson, Constructing the Dragon s Scales: China s Approach to Territorial Sovereignty and Border relations, in Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior, edited by Suisheng Zhao. Thomas G. Moore & Dixia Yang, Empowered and Restrained: Chinese Foreign Policy in the Age of Economic Interdependence, in The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy, Edited by David M. Lampton. Margaret M. Pearson, The Case of China s Accession to GATT/WTO, in The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy, Edited by David M. Lampton. Yong Deng, Better Than Power, in China Rising. Lam, Willly, The Fourth Generation Leadership s Ambitious Foreign Policy Agenda, Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era. China and Major Powers Joseph Y. S. Cheng & Zhang Wankun, Patterns and Dynamics of China s International Strategic Behavior, in Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior, edited by Suisheng Zhao. Lowell Dittmer, Ghost of the Strategic Triangle: The Sino-Russian Partnership, in Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior, edited by Suisheng Zhao. Zi Zhongyun, The Clash of Ideas: Ideology and Sino-U.S. Relations, in Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior, edited by Suisheng Zhao. Liu Ji, Making the Right Choices in Twenty-first Century Sino-American Relations, in Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior, edited by Suisheng Zhao. Kerr, David. The Sino-Russian Partnership and U.S. Policy Toward North Korea. International Studies Quarterly 49 (2005): 411-437. Shirk, Susan L., China s Weakness, America s Danger, in China: Fragile Superpower. 4
China and Japan Shirk, Susan L., Japan, in China: Fragile Superpower. Mike Mochizuki, China-Japan Relations, in Power Shift. Michael Yahuda, The Limits of Economic Interdependence, New Directions in the Study of China s Foreign Policy. China and the Peripheral Nations Derek Mitchell and Carola McGiffert., Expanding the Strategic Periphery : a History of China s Interaction with the Developing World, in China and the Developing World, pp. 3-25. Edited by Joshua Eisenman & others. Eric Heginbotham, Evaluating China s Strategy Toward the Developing World, in China and the Developing World, pp. 189-216. Edited by Joshua Eisenman & others. Michael A. Glosny, Stabilizing the Backyard: Recent Development in China s Policy Toward Southeast Asia, in China and the Developing World, pp. 150-186. Edited by Joshua Eisenman & others. Samuel S. Kim, The Making of China s Korea Policy in the Era of Reform, in The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy, Edited by David M. Lampton. Joshua Eisenman, China s Post-Cold War Strategy in Africa, in China and the Developing World, pp. 29-59. Edited by Joshua Eisenman & others. Matthew Oresman, Repaving the Silk Road: China s Emergence in Central Asia, in China and the Developing World, pp. 60-83. Edited by Joshua Eisenman & others. Chung-chian Teng, Hegemony or Partnership, in China and the Developing World, pp. 84-112. Edited by Joshua Eisenman & others. China s Global Economic Linkage Zhibin Gu, Creation of a Global Manufacturing Center, in China s Global Reach. Zhibin Gu, Chinese Multinationals, in China s Global Reach. Zhibin Gu, Bringing Foreigners In, in China s Global Reach. Zhibin Gu, Crises of State Sector, in China s Global Reach. Zhibin Gu, Afterword: China, United States, and Global Development, in China s Global Reach. SESSION ONE--- February 26 Course Introduction SESSION TWO--- March 5 China s Grand Strategy (1) SESSION THREE--- March 12 China s Grand Strategy (2) 5
SESSION FOUR--- March 19 China s Security Environment SESSION FIVE--- March 26 China s New Security Diplomacy (1) SESSION SIX--- April 2 China s New Security Diplomacy (2) April 9 Domestic Factors of China s Foreign Relations SESSION SEVEN--- April 16 Domestic Factors of China s Foreign Relations: Nationalism SESSION EIGHT--- April 23 China in International Society SESSION NINE--- April 30 China and Major Powers (1) : U.S. SESSION TEN--- May 7 China and Major Powers (2) : EU SESSION ELEVEN--- May 14 China and Major Powers (3) : Japan SESSION TWELVE--- May 21 China and the Peripheral Nations (1) SESSION THIRTEEN--- May 28 National Holiday SESSION FOURTEEN--- June 4 China and the Peripheral Nations (2) SESSION FIFTEEN--- June 11 China s Global Economic Linkage (1) SESSION SIXTEEN--- June 18 China s Global Economic Linkage (2) 6