China in International Relations 2104-ERASMUS-CHIR

I. Introductory Session

II. China’s Foreign Policy System
Readings:

Suisheng Zhao, “Top-Level Design and Enlarged Diplomacy: Foreign and Security Policymaking in Xi Jinping’s China,” Journal of Contemporary China, 14 March 2022.
Shengsong Yue, “Toward a Global Partnership Network: Implications, Evolutions and Prospects of China’s Partnership Diplomacy,” The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 15 February 2019.
S. Mokry, “China’s Foreign Policy Rhetoric between Orchestration and Cacophony,” The Pacific Review, 2024, 37(2), pp. 360–387.

III. Chinese Visions of the World
Readings:

L. Darren, “China and the Logic of Illiberal Hegemony,” Security Studies, 2023, 32(1).
Shaleen Khanal, Hongzhou Zhang and Araz Taeihagh, “Development of New Generation of Artificial Intelligence in China: When Beijing’s Global Ambitions Meet Local Realities,” Journal of Contemporary China, 2025, 34.
E. Economy, “China’s Alternative Order—and What America Should Learn from It,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2024.

IV. Contemporary China’s International Relations Perceptions
Readings:

Yi Edward Yong, “China’s Strategic Narratives in Global Governance Reform under Xi Jinping,” Journal of Contemporary China, 2021, no. 128, pp. 299–313.
Sung-han Kim and Sanghoon Kim, “China’s Contestation of the Liberal International Order,” The Pacific Review, 2023, 36(6), pp. 1215–1240.
Yan Xuetong, “Chinese Values vs. Liberalism: What Ideology Will Shape the International Normative Order?”, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2018, 9(1).

V. China in IR: American Scholar Perspective
Readings:

A. Johnston, “Is China a Status-Quo Power?”, International Security, 2003, no. 4, pp. 5–56.
J. Mearsheimer, “The Gathering Storm: China’s Challenge to US Power in Asia,” The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2010, no. 4, pp. 380–404.
D. McCourt, “Knowledge Communities in US Foreign Policy Making: The American China Field and the End of Engagement with the PRC,” Security Studies, 2022, 31(4).

VI. China in IR: Chinese Scholar Perspective
Readings:

A. Johnston, “China in a World of Orders,” International Security, 2019, 44(2).
Xiaoyu Pu and ChengLi Wang, “Rethinking China’s Rise: Chinese Scholar Debates Strategic Overstretch,” International Affairs, 2018, no. 5, pp. 1019–1035.

VII. China as an Economic Power
Readings:

N. McDonagh, “China’s Socialist Market Economy and the Systemic Rivalry in the Multilateral Trade Order,” Australian Journal of International Affairs, 2022, no. 6, pp. 712–733.
Cathy Xuauxuan Wu, “A Bargaining Theory of US-China Economic Rivalry: Differentiating the Trade and Technology Wars,” The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2024, 17(4).
F. Bergsten, “China and the United States: The Contest for Global Economic Leadership,” China & World Economy, 2018, no. 5, pp. 12–37.
Johannes Petry, “China’s Quest for Pricing Power: Financial Hierarchy, Autonomy and Commodity Futures Markets,” International Affairs, 2025, 101(5).

VIII. China’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
Readings:

D. Scott, “China’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: The Problem of Success,” Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies, 2019, no. 2, pp. 94–113.
Feng Liu, “Balance of Power, Balance of Alignment, and China’s Role in the Regional Order Transition,” The Pacific Review, 2023, 36(2).

IX. China–EU Relations
Readings:

Zhongping Feng, “Internal and External Factors Affecting China–EU Relations,” China International Strategy Review, 2022, no. 1, pp. 74–90.
N. Casarini, “A European Strategic ‘Third Way’: European Union between the Traditional Transatlantic Alliance and the Pull of the Chinese Market,” China International Strategy Review, 2022, no. 4, pp. 91–107.

X. China–US Bipolar System
Readings:

Xiaolin Duan, “Challenging Popular Narratives: The Course of Power Transition and Sino-US Relations,” The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2025, 18(2).
Asya Gasparyan, “Comparative Analysis of US and Chinese Strategic Cultures,” China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies, 2024, 10(4).
Ch. Layne, “Preventing the China–US Cold War from Turning Hot,” The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2020, no. 3, pp. 343–385.
Kai He and Huiyun Feng, “International Order Transition and US–China Strategic Competition,” The Pacific Review, 2023, no. 2, pp. 234–260.
M. Repnikova, “The Balance of Soft Power: The American and Chinese Quests to Win Hearts and Minds,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 2022.