China in International Relations 2104-ERASMUS-CHIR

Course outline:
I.Introductory session
II. China,s Foreign Policy System
Readings:
1.Suisheng Zhao, Top – Level Design and Enlarged Diplomacy: Foreign and Security
Policymaking in Xi Jinping’s China, Journal of Contemporary China, 14 March 2022.
2. 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.
3. S. Mokry, China,s foreign policy rhetoric between orchestration and cacophony
,The Pacific Review,2024,37/2/,p.360-387.
III . Chinese Visions of the World.
Readings.
1. L. Darren, China and the logic of Illiberal Hegemony, Security Studies, 2023, 32/1/

2. Shaleen Khanal, Hongzhou Zhang, 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.
3. E. Economy, China,s Alternative Order-and What America Should Learn from It,,
Foreign Affairs, 2024, May/June.
IV. Contemporary China’s International Relations Perceptions.

Readings.
1. Yi Edward Yong, China,s Strategic Narratives in Global Governance Reform under Xi
Jinping, Journal of Contemporary China,2021,no.128. p.299-313.
2. Sung-han Kim,Sanghoon Kim ,China,s contestation of the liberal international order,
The Pacific Review, 2023,36/6/, p. 1215-1240.
3. 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:
1. A. Johnson, Is China a Status-Quo Power, International Security, 2003, no. 4, p. 5-
56.
2. J. Mearsheimer, The Gathering Storm: China Challenge to US Power in Asia, Chinese
Journal of International Politics, 2010, no. 4, p.380-404.
3. D. McCourt, Knowledge Communities in US Foreign Policy Making: The American
China Field and the end Engagement with the PRC, Security Studies, 2022,31/4/
VI. China in IR: Chinese Scholar Perspective.

Readings.
1.A. Johnson, China in World of Orders, International Security, 2019,44/2/.
2..Xiaoyu Pu, ChengLi Wang, Rethinking China’s Rise. Chinese Scholar Debates
Strategic Overstreach, International Affairs, 2018, no. 5, p. 1019-1035.
VII .China as Economic Power

Readings

1.N. McDonagh, China,s Socialist market economy and the systemic rivalry in the
multilateral trade order, Australian Journal of International Affairs,2022,no.6,p. 712-733.
2. Cathy Xuauxuan Wu, A Bargaining Theory Of US-China Economic Rivarly
:Differentiating the Trade and Technology Wars, The Chinese Journal of International Politics,
2024,17/4/.

3. F. Bergsten, China and the United States: The Contest for Global Economic
Leadership, China and World Economy, 2018, no. 5, p. 12-37.
4. 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:
1.D Scott, China,s Indo-Pacific Strategy: The problem of Success, Journal of
Territorial and Maritime Studies of,2019, no.2,p. 94-113
2. Feng Liu, Balance of power, balance of alignment ,and China,s role in the
regional order transition, The Pacific Review, 2023,36/2/
0,

IX. China – EU Relations

Readings:
1.Zhongping Feng, Internal and External Factors affecting China- EU relations,
China International Strategy Review,2022,no.1,s. 74-90.
2. N. Casarini, A European Strategic “Third Way”. European Union between
traditional transatlantic alliance and the pull of Chinese Market, China
International Strategic Review, 2022.no4, p. 91-107.

X. China – US Bipolar system.

Readings:

1.Xiaolin Duan, Challenging Popular Narratives: The Course of Power Transition
and Sino-US Relations, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2025, 18/2/.
2.Asya Gasparyan, Comparative analysis of US and Chinese Strategic Cultures,
China Quaterly of International Strategic Studies, 2024,,10/4/.
3.Ch. Layne, Preventing the China – US Cold War from Turning Hot, The Chinese
Journal of International Politics, 2020, no. 3, p. 343-385.

4 Kai He ,Huiyun Feng, International Order Transition and US- China strategic
competition, The Pacific Review, 2023,no. 2,p. 234-260.
5.Repnikova, The Balance of Soft Power: The Americans and Chinese Quests to
win Hearts and Minds, Foreign Affairs, ,2022,/JulyAugust.