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Foreign Policy Vectors of the People's Republic of China
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:6.00
Study Course Accepted:09.02.2024 11:05:34
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PZK_126 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 5.00 | ECTS: | 7.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Politics | Target Audience: | Political Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 10 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 20 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 10 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 40 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | In order to successfully complete the study course, the students need prior knowledge of International Relations theories. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To inform on the approach of the Xi Jinping government to the development of China's foreign policy, to analyze its global and regional impact; to conceptualize it in the context of IR theories. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | History of the development of the People's Republic of China foreign policy positions since the establishment of the PRC in 1949 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Chinese foreign policy apparatus – the interaction between the state and the institutions of the Chinese Communist Party | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | The domestic political concepts of the People's Republic of China and the resulting foreign policy under Xin Jinping | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Key officials responsible for foreign policy and their competing visions | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 5 | "Infrastructure diplomacy" – projects implemented by the PRC in South America and Africa | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 6 | "Resource Diplomacy" and "Loan Diplomacy" – Western vision of PRC foreign policy | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 7 | Foreign policy regarding the regions of ambiguous status – the case of Taiwan | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 8 | China's New Multilateralism: the Belt and Road Initiative, 16+1, challenges, and the role of the Baltic States | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 9 | Wolf Warrior Diplomacy: a Machiavellian Turn in China's Foreign Policy? | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 10 | The normative component of China's foreign policy offer – "shared future for mankind" and other elements of the Chinese political discourse | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Report and essays. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | The assessment consists of a combination of marks from the exam, report, essays, as well as participation in practical classes. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Knowledge of the foreign policy framework of the People's Republic of China during the Xi Jinping rule (A community of shared future for mankind, Belt and Road Initiative, Major country diplomacy concept, etc.). | ||||||||
| Skills: | Ability to identify the features of Chinese political discourse influencing the international arena after the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, linking them with the foreign policy pursued by the PRC. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Analytical expertise related to the research of the People's Republic of China. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Kelly, David. Seven Chinas. Pieejams: https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-pub-lic/publication… | ||||||||
| 2 | Jennifer Rudolph, Martin Szonyi (ed.). The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power. Harvard University Press, 2018. | ||||||||
| 3 | Robert G.Sutter. Chinese Foreign Relations: Power and Policy since the Cold War. Lanham, MD: Row-man & Littlefield, 2012. | ||||||||
| 4 | Andžāns, M. Bērziņa-Čerenkova, U.A. Perception of the 16+1 and the Belt and Road Initiative: A Perspective from Latvia. - How the 16+1 Cooperation Promotes the Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2018. | ||||||||
| 5 | Hans Spross. 'The Chinese Dream' and Xi Jinping's power politics. CHINA’S POLITBURO STANDING COMMITTEE: WHO'S WHO? Deutsche Welle, 27.12.2017 | ||||||||
| 6 | Thomas Eder. China’s New Foreign Policy Setup, The Diplomat, 01.08.2018. | ||||||||
| 7 | An Baijie, Cecily Liu. Xi's 'shared future' now a consensus, China Daily, 26.01.2018. | ||||||||
| 8 | O’Brien, Kevin J. Speaking to Theory and Speaking to the China Field. Issues and Studies 54(4) (December 2018). | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Xi, Jinping. The Governance of China. Volume 1. Beijing: China Foreign Languages Press, 2014. | ||||||||
| 2 | Kerry Brown. China’s 19th Party Congress: Start of a New Era. Singapore: World Scientific, 2018. | ||||||||
