Emerging Economies and South-South Cooperation

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

A dossier of required readings and a complementary bibliography is provided as the basis for class debates and to orientate students. The classes will orientate students on the major topics of modern and contemporary China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries. Case studies and simulations will be used to clarify and test theoretical frameworks for the analysis and interpretation of issues of interest and the formulation of policies. Written work will allow students to study given issues more thoroughly on their own. Oral presentations by students will promote the debate.

Learning Outcomes

The course provides students with basic knowledge of the social, economic and political structures of the emerging economies, as well as the emerging paradigms of international relations with special reference to China and the Lusophone countries in terms of South-South cooperation. The course will develop a capacity to understand and interpret the politics and policies of South-South cooperation and their relationships to North-South cooperation in terms of trade and foreign policies. This knowledge will be particularly useful to analyze relevant initiatives of those actors, such as China’s New Silk Road.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

For the analysis of the emerging economies and paradigms of international relations, contents include topics such as:

1. Colonialism and postcolonialism; Political transition.

2. Culturalism and nationalism; Cultural anthropology, social and cultural psychology, and “Asian Values”.

3. Regionalism and regionalization.

4. Security, conflict and conflict resolution.

5. Demography, migration, environmental problems.

6. Economic structures, economic modernisation, planning and liberalization.

7. Foreign trade, investment and tourism.

Head Lecturer(s)

Daniel Augusto de Oliveira Cardoso

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Participation (15%) + oral presentation (25%) + exercise in statistics (20%) + written paper (40%): 100.0%

Bibliography

ARRIGHI, Giovanni (2007) Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century, London: Verso.

ARRIGHI, Giovanni; Hamashita, Takeshi; Selden, Mark (eds.) (2003) The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives, New York: Routledge.

BROOK, Timothy; Luong, Hy V. (eds.) (1999) Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia, University of Michigan Press.

ELVIN, Mark (1973) The Pattern of the Chinese Past, Stanford: Stanford University Press.

KANG, David (2010) East Asia before the West. Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute, New York: Columbia University Press.

PYE, Lucian. The Spirit of Chinese Politics, Cambridge MA / London: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Wang, Hui (2003) China’s New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition, Ted Huters y Rebecca Karl (trads.), Harvard University Press.

WANG, Hui (2010) The End of Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity, Verso.

YAN, Xuetong (2011) Ancient Chinese Thought. Modern Chinese Power, Princeton: Princeton University Press.