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CHES5149: China and Regional Order in Asia CCSS3500: China in Regional and World Systems
2018-19, Term 2, Tuesdays 14.30-17.15
Venue YIA 403 Lecturer: Dr. Tim Summers ([email protected]) Teaching Assistants: Wu Yiyang ([email protected]) Course summary This course looks at China’s changing political, economic and security relationships in Asia and beyond through frameworks and concepts in the International Relations (IR) literature. Part I sets out the context, Part II examines some of the main approaches in IR, while Part III applies these to questions of regionalism in East Asia, maritime disputes, and the Belt and Road Initiative. Learning outcomes By the end of the course, students are expected to be able to discuss China’s international relationships in Asia with reference to the main frameworks in the IR literature. Learning activities Lectures and tutorials will take place every week in three-hour sessions which mix lectures with class discussion. Students are expected to complete the readings before each class, and evidence that they have done so will contribute to assessment of participation. The learning activities are shared between CHES5149 and CCSS3500. Assessment scheme Grading will be based on three elements:
1. 30%: An essay of around 1,200 words (for both CHES5149 and CCSS3500) to be completed in class in week 7 (26 February ). Guidance on preparation will be given in class during the first part of the course.
2. 60%: Final paper of at least 3,000 words (CHES5149 ) / 2,500 words (CCSS3500 ), to be submitted in hard copy, by email and through Veriguide by 6pm on Tuesday 23 April. Details of topics will be posted on Blackboard at the start of term.
3. 10%: Class attendance and participation (including brief group presentations in Week 9) Grade descriptors for MA and BA students with further indications of grading criteria will be posted on Blackboard at the start of term. Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/. With each assignment, students will be required to submit a signed declaration that they are aware of the policies, regulations and procedures.
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Course schedule Part I: Introduction and context
1. Introduction: Course objectives and key concepts (8 Jan.) - Evelyn Goh (2016), “Introduction”, in Evelyn Goh (ed.), Rising China’s Influence in
Developing Asia (Oxford: OUP)
2. China in Asia: Historical overview and The Chinese World Order (15 Jan.) - David C. Kang (2012), “Diplomacy: The Tribute System”, chapter 4 of East Asia Before the
West: Five centuries of trade and tribute , Columbia UP - Peter Perdue (2015), “The Tenacious Tributary System”, Journal of Contemporary China ,
24 (96): 1002-1014 - Benjamin I. Schwartz (1968), “The Chinese Perception of World Order, Past and Present”,
in John K. Fairbank, ed, The Chinese World Order: Traditional China’s Foreign Relations, Harvard UP
3. International Relations theory and its limitations (22 Jan.)
- [essential] Zhang Baohui (2014), “Xi Jinping, ‘Pragmatic’ Offensive Realism and China’s Rise”, Global Asia , 9(2)
- Amitav Acharya (2017), “Theorising the international relations of Asia: necessity or indulgence?” The Pacific Review 30 (6): 816-828
- [optional] Qin Yaqing (2010), “Why is there no Chinese international relations theory?” in Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan, eds, Non-Western International Relations Theory
- [optional] Chapters 1-3 of Wang Jianwei and Song Weiqing (2016), China, the European Union, and the International Politics of Global Governance , Palgrave Macmillan (see Blackboard)
- [optional] Lee Jones (2018), “Theorizing Foreign and Security Policy in an Era of State Transformation: A New Framework and Case Study of China”, Journal of Global Security Studies [on-line first]
4. Chinese foreign and security policy since 1949: ideas, institutions, and contemporary
debates (29 Jan.) - Pu Xiaoyu and Wang Chengli (2018), “Rethinking China’s rise: Chinese scholars debate
strategic overstretch”, International Affairs 94 (5), 1019-1035 - Nien-Chung Chang Liao (2016), “The sources of China’s assertiveness: the system,
domestic politics or leadership preferences?” International Affairs, 92 (4), 817-834 - Rosemary Foot (2014), “‘Doing some things’ in the Xi Jinping era: the United Nations as
China’s venue of choice”, International Affairs, 90 (5), 1085-1100 - Richard Q. Turcsanyi (2017), “Assessing the Power of China: Insights from the Conceptual
Thinking about Power” Journal of Chinese Political Science 22: 473-486 - [optional background] Wang Yizhou (2013), “Six Decades of China’s Diplomacy: Review
and Reflections”, Economic and Political Studies, 1 (1), 120-135
Note that there will be no class on 5 February (Chinese New Year holiday) II. China and Regional Order: contested frameworks
5. Offensive realism: Can China rise peacefully? (12 Feb.) - John J. Mearsheimer (2014, 2 nd edition), The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, Norton,
chapter 10, ‘Can China Rise Peacefully?’ - Jonathan Kirshner (2010), “The tragedy of offensive realism: Classical realism and the rise
of China”, European Journal of International Relations, 18(1), 53-75 - [optional] John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (2016), “The Case for Offshore Balancing: A
Superior U.S. Grand Strategy”, Foreign Affairs, July/August
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6. The Liberal Order thesis and US-led order in East Asia (19 Feb.)
- G. John Ikenberry (2009), “Liberal Internationalism 3.0: America and the Dilemmas of Liberal World Order”, Perspectives on Politics 7 (1), 71-87
- G. John Ikenberry and Darren J. Lim (2017), “China’s emerging institutional statecraft: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the prospects for counter-hegemony”, Brookings Institution
- Amitav Acharya (2014), “The Myths of Liberal Hegemony”, Chapter 3 of The End of American World Order (Polity)
- [optional] Michael Mastanduno (2014), “Order and change in world politics: the financial crisis and the breakdown of the US-China grand bargain”, chapter 6 of John Ikenberry, ed., Power, Order and Change in World Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
7. Mid-term assessment (26 Feb.)
8. The English School and Regional Order (5 March)
- Ian Clark (2013), “China and the United States: a succession of hegemonies?” International Affairs, 87 (1), 13-28
- Evelyn Goh (2013), “Introduction: Order Transition in East Asia”, chapter 1 of The Struggle for Order; hegemony, hierarchy and transition in post-Cold War East Asia , OUP
- Qin Yaqing (2010), “International Society as a Process: Institutions, Identities, and China’s Peaceful Rise”, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol. 3, 129-153
9. Selected Chinese thinking on international order (I) (12 March)
- Yan Xuetong (2011), “Xunzi’s Thoughts on International Politics and Their Implications”, in Callahan and Barabansteva, China Orders the World
- Zhao Tingyang (2011), “Rethinking Empire from the Chinese Concept ‘All-under-Heaven’ (Tianxia, 天下)”, in Callahan and Barabansteva, China Orders the World
- [optional] William A. Callahan (2011), “Tianxia, Empire, and the World: Chinese Visions of World Order for the Twenty-First Century”, in Callahan and Barabantseva, China Orders the World
10. Selected Chinese thinking on international order (II) (19 March)
- Yan Xuetong (2018), “Chinese Values vs. Liberalism: What Ideology WIll Shape the International Normative Order?” The Chinese Journal of International Politics 11(1), 1-22
- Qin Yaqing (2016), “A Relational Theory of World Politics” International Studies Review 18, 33-47
- Qin Yaqing (2013), “Power Shift, Governance Deficit and a Sustainable Global Order”, Economic and Political Studies, 1 (1), 89-106
III. Case studies: China and regional order in Asia
11. China and (East) Asian regionalism (26 March) - Rodolfo Severino (2006), Southeast Asia in Search of an ASEAN Community, Singapore:
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, chapter 1 - Sarah Eaton and Richard Stubbs (2006), “Is ASEAN powerful? Neo-realist versus
constructivist approaches to power in Southeast Asia”, The Pacific Review , 19 (2), 135-155 - Nick Bisley (2012), “China’s Rise and the Making of East Asia’s Security Architecture”,
Journal of Contemporary China , 21(73), 19-34 - Zhang Yunling (2016), “China and its neighbourhood: transformation, challenges and grand
strategy”, International Affairs, 92(4), 835-848
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Note that Week 12 (2 April) is a reading week for Undergraduate programmes. This lecture will therefore be required for MA students only. A short recorded version of the lecture will be posted on Blackboard.
12. Maritime disputes and regional order in East Asia (2 April) - Katherine Morton (2016), “China’s ambition in the South China Sea: is a legitimate maritime
order possible?” International Affairs 92 (4), 909-940. - Carolina G. Hernandez (2014), “The South China Sea issue and its implications for the
security of East Asia”, in Peter Shearman, ed, Power Transition and International Order in Asia , Routledge
- Zhao Hong (2013), “The South China Sea Dispute and China-ASEAN Relations”, Asian Affairs, 44 (1), 27-43
- Christian Wirth (2018), “Whose ‘Freedom of Navigation’? Australia, China, the United States and the Making of Order in the ‘Indo-Pacific’”, The Pacific Review [on-line first]
- Center for a New American Security (2014), Tailored Coercion: Competition and Risk in Maritime Asia , available at http://www.cnas.org/sites/default/files/publications-pdf/CNAS_TailoredCoercion_report.pdf
13. The Belt and Road Initiative and regional/global order (9 Apr.)
- Tim Summers (2018), “Rocking the boat? China’s ‘belt and road’ and global order”, in Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Niv Horesh, eds, China’s Presence in the Middle East: The implications of the One Belt, One Road Initiative , Routledge
- Wang Yong (2016), “Offensive for defensive: the belt and road initiative and China’s new grand strategy” The Pacific Review 29 (3): 455-463
14. Conclusion. Contested frameworks and hegemony: power transition or the renegotiation of
regional order? (16 Apr.) - Simon Reich and Richard Ned Lebow (2017), “Influence and Hegemony: Shifting Patterns
of Material and Social Power in World Politics”, All Azimuth 6(1), 17-47
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