China and International Society in Asia

Recommended Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of English.

Teaching Methods

With recourse to lectured based seminars, the class structure presupposes active student participation, centred on core readings. On top of key lectures, critical analysis and discussion are privileged throughout the course.

Learning Outcomes

Main learning outcome:

- Allow students to critically analyse the main security, economic and political practices and tendencies between China and its Asian neighbours.

Specific outcomes and skills:

- To identify and understand the conceptual frameworks with which to study regional spaces;

- Understand the main dynamics and actors within China and Asia;

- Understand the political, economic and security positioning of China in relation to several regions within Asia.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Theorising Regions and Great Powers: English School and Political Economy approaches

- Contextualizing China: Revolutionary China

- Contextualizing China: After Mao

- Contextualizing China: After the 1990s

- China and the Great Powers:  Geostrategy and Political Economy

- China and the Far East

- China and SouthEast Asia

- China and South Asia

- China and Central Asia.

Head Lecturer(s)

André Filipe Valadas Saramago

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information: 100.0%

Bibliography

Buzan, Barry. 2008. Regions and powers: the structure of international security. 6th print. Cambridge University Press.

Buzan, Barry and Yongjin Zhang (eds.) (2014) Contesting international society in East Asia. Cambridge University Press.

Buzan, Barry and Waever, Ole (2009) Regions and powers: the structure of international security. Cambridge University Press.

Percival, Bronson (2007) The dragon looks south: China and Southeast Asia in the new century. Greenwood Publishing Group.

Kang, David Chan-oong (2007) China rising: Peace, power, and order in East Asia. Columbia University Press.

Swanstrom, Niklas "China and Central Asia: a new great game or traditional vassal relations?." Journal of contemporary China 14.45 (2005): 569-584.

Quayle, Linda (2013) Southeast Asia and the English School of International Relations: A Region-Theory Dialogue. Palgrave

Karl, Rebecca (2020) China's Revolutions in the Modern World: A brief interpretive history. Verso.