150162 SE Relations between China and the USA (2010S)

Interessen und Triebkräfte zwischen Containment und Engagement

10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 15 - Ostasienwissenschaften

Continuous assessment of course work

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Geplante Termine: 8. März, 15. März, 22. März, 12. April, 19. April, 26. April, 3. Mai, 10. Mai, 17. Mai (?), 31. Mai, 7. Juni, 14. Juni, 21. Juni,

Details

max. 25 participants

Language: German

Lecturers

Helmut Opletal

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Monday 01.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Monday 08.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Monday 15.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Monday 22.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Monday 12.04. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Monday 19.04. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Monday 26.04. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Monday 03.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Monday 10.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Monday 17.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Monday 31.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Monday 07.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Monday 14.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Monday 21.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Monday 28.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

From the founding of the PRC (1949) up to the end of the 1980s Sino-US relations were closely linked to the Cold War. Beijing and Washington saw each other first as a member of the so-called enemy camp, the US continued to maintain diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan), during the wars in Korea and Vietnam, China and the United States experienced even military confrontation. After the Sino-Soviet split a complex triangular relationship prevailed between Beijing, Moscow and Washington, which cumulated in the historic visit of US president Richard Nixon in China (1972). With the end of armed conflicts in SE Asia (around 1980) and the East-West confrontation in Europe (after 1989) both China and the US tried to position themselves in the new global system. While the US saw themselves as the now only international superpower, China emerged as a new ecomic and political big power, trying to play an important role in a new a multi-polar world order and deciding on important political and iconomic issues on an equal footing. In the meantime experts and politicians in the US debate whether China's rise amounts to a global danger that has to be contained, or whether active engagement could make Beijing a responsible partner in international relations. The main topics in Sino-US relations in the recent years have been Taiwan, trade issues, global security and human rights.

Assessment and permitted materials

Credits will be attributed on the basis of the oral presentation, the individual written papers, and the active participation in debates. The main criteria will be to which extend the student is capable to analyze the main aspects of the topic and to present them in a systematic and scientific way.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The students should acquire profound knowledge on the main events and debates, context and driving forces in the relations between China and the US since 1949, and they should acquaint themselves with available literature on the subject.

Examination topics

After an introduction to the subject the students prepare presentations on specific aspects, which will be analyzed and discussed by the plenum. Then the students will individually write papers on their subject (approx. 30.000 characters+ list of consulted sources and literature).

Reading list

Literaturliste (als erste Orientierung, wird weiter ergänzt:)

http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/china-us.html
(An annotated directory of Internet resources on the relations between China and the United States: current issues; trade relations; history; ...)

CHEN Jian: Mao's China and the Cold War. University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill 2001

GUO Sujian (Ed.): China's Peaceful Rise in the 21st Century: Domestic and International Conditions, Ashgate Publishing, August 2006

Alastair Ian JOHNSTON, Robert S. ROSS (Eds.): Engaging China. The Management of an Emerging Power. London/New York 1999

Lorenz M. LÜTHI: The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World. Princeton University Press. Princeton 2008

Kay MÖLLER: Chinas Außenpolitik 1949-2004. VS Verlag 2005

Thomas W. ROBINSON, David SHAMBAUGH (Eds.): Chinese Foreign Policy. Theory and Practice. Oxford 1994

Helmut OPLETAL: Entspannung oder neue Rivalitäten? China und Südostasien nach dem Ende des Ost-West-Konflikts. In: BINDERHOFER u. a. (Hrsg.): Das pazifische Jahrhundert? Wirtschaftliche, ökologische und politische Entwicklungen in Ost- und Südostasien (Historische Sozialkunde 10). Wien 1996 (+weitere Beiträge zum Thema)

Andrea RIEMER: Chinas strategische Neupositionierung im geopolitischen Kontext. In: Schriftenreihe der Landesverteidigungsakademie. Wien, Nr. 14/2005

XU Xin: China's Defence Strategy under New Circumstances. In: Foreign Affairs Journal (Peking), Nr. 29, Sept. 1993

ZHENG Bijian: Peacefully Rising to Great-Power Status. In: Foreign Affairs. September/October 2005. S. 18-24 (+ weitere Artikel zum Thema in der gleichen Nummer)

SHEN Zhihua: Sino-Soviet Relations and the Origins of the Korean War: Stalin's Strategic Goals in the Far East. MIT Press Journals. (March 13, 2006)http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/15203970051032309.

SHEN Zhihua: (Artikel auf chinesisch)
http://qkzz.net/article/c6c5ee13-4317-41e8-8e2a-1b77610953fa.htm

Taiwan Relations Act (Text)
http://china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=393&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1