Critical Issues in U.S. - Chinese Relations - JMM600

• Anglický název: Critical Issues in U.S. - Chinese Relations
• Zajišťuje: Katedra severoamerických studií (23-KAS)
• Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
• Platnost: od 2016 do 2018
• Semestr: letní
• E-Kredity: 6
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:1/1, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: 20 / neurčen (20)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu; při zápisu přednost, je-li ve stud. plánu
• Garant: Mgr. Jana Sehnálková, Ph.D.
• Vyučující: Mgr. Jana Sehnálková, Ph.D.

Metody výuky

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jana Sehnálková, Ph.D. (31.01.2021)

Most of the classes will evolve around a document - an article or a video. The lecturers will explain the key concepts and the key issues, each class will then include space for discussions related to the assigned material.

In summer semester 2021, all classes will take place through ZOOM. 

 

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Topic: Critical Issues in U.S. - Chinese Relations Classroom
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Sylabus

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jana Sehnálková, Ph.D. (31.01.2021)

SELECTION TOPICS which will be covered:

 

15.2. Introduction to the course

 

22.2.How China Sees America and How America Sees China, Traumas of Tiananmen

Henry Kissinger, On China, Chapter 1 

Mike Pompeo, The United States and the China Competition, Feb 8, 2020.

 

1.3.  Visions of China Challenge and Bush Administration 

• Zheng Bijian, „China’s „Peaceful Rise“ to Great-Power Status,“ Foreign Affairs, September/October 2005

• David Shambaugh, „A New China Requires a New U.S. Strategy,“ Current History, September 2010. 

 

8.3. U.S. and China’s Rise   - Obama and China

• Hillary Clinton, „America’s Pacific Century,“ Foreign Policy (November 2011), available online. 

• Randall L. Schweller, Xiayu Pu, “After Unipolarity: China´s Visions of International Order in an Era of U.S. Decline,” International Security, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Summer 2011): pp. 41-72.

15.3.  China´s Foreign Policy Making - Actors and Schools of Thoughts

• David M. Lampton, How China is Ruled: Why It´s Getting Harder for Beijing to Govern, Foreign Affairs (Jan-Feb 2014), p. 74-84.

 

22.3. China´s New Security Concept, China´s Military

• Robert D. Kaplan: The Geography of Chinese Power. How Far Can Beijing Reach on Land and at Sea. Foreign Affairs May-June 2010.

• Executive Summary: Annual Report on the Military and Security Development of China’s Military 2019 (https://media.defense.gov/2019/May/02/2002127082/-1/-1/1/2019_CHINA_MILITARY_POWER_REPORT.pdf)

 

29.3.  Going to War over Taiwan? Recent Developments in Cross-Strait Relations

• John Mearsheimer, Say Goodbye to Taiwan, National Interest, http://nationalinterest.org/article/say-goodbye-taiwan-9931 

• David Pillig, US Cannot Sacrifice Taiwan to Court the Chinese, Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6941161a-5af7-11e0-a290-00144feab49a.html#axzz40ErNkojQ

 

5.4.  no class - Easter 

 

12.4. US v. China in Near Neighborhood: South China Sea - case study

• Robert D. Kaplan, “China´s Carribean,” In Asia´s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific (Random House, 2014), pp.32-50.

 

19.4.  China´s Domestic Challenges

• Elizabeth Economy, China's Imperial President, Foreign Affairs, 2014 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2014-10-20/chinas-imperial-president

 

26.4.  China-U.S. economic/trade relations/Trump’s trade war

• Elisabeth Economy, “The G-2 Mirage“, Foreign Affairs 88, no. 3 (May/June 2009): 14-23.

 

3.5.  China´s Rise: Challenge to America Globally?

• John Williamson, „Is the Beijing Consensus Now Dominant?” Asia Policy, January 2012.

• Robert D. Blackwill and Ashley J. Tellis, Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China, Council on Foreign Relations, March 2015.

 

10.5.  China’s soft power and COVID, China’s tools of building of influence