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This course will explain selected macro, medium and micro theories, concepts, and analytical frameworks of international relations and foreign policy analysis, and help students utilize them to analyze the contemporary affairs in Chinese foreign policy and East Asian security. This course will cover important topics including great power competition and Sino-U.S. relations, Taiwan and cross-Strait relations, Sino-Japan relations and Diaoyu/Senkaku Island dispute, South China Sea and China’s relations with the Southeast Asia, Nuke proliferation in the Korean Peninsula, and others. At the end of this course, students will master a basic knowledge about the subject and understand the complexity of foreign policy process in general and in China context.
This book is a study of the making of foreign policy of China. It examines three sets of driving forces behind China’s foreign policy making. One is historical sources, including the selective memories and reconstruction of the glorious empire with an ethnocentric world outlook and the century of humiliation at the hands of foreign imperialist powers. The second is domestic institutions and players, particularly the proliferation of new party and government institutions and players, such as the national security commission, foreign policy think tanks, media and local governments. The third is Chinese perception of power relations, particularly their position in the international system and their position relations with major powers.
