210094 SE M4 b: International Politics and Development (2009W)

Außenpolitik nach 1949 im regionalen und internationalen Umfeld

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 21 - Politikwissenschaft

Continuous assessment of course work

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helmut.opletal@univie.ac.at
(seit 1.1.2010 nicht mehr im ORF erreichbar!)

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Helmut Opletal
Traungasse 7/11
1030 Wien

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Registration is open from Tu 15.09.2009 12:50 to Fr 02.10.2009 12:00
Registration is open from Su 04.10.2009 13:55 to Tu 06.10.2009 12:00
Deregistration possible until Tu 20.10.2009 12:00

Details

max. 50 participants

Language: German

Lecturers

Helmut Opletal

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Monday 12.10. 18:30 - 19:50 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
Monday 19.10. 18:30 - 19:50 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
Monday 09.11. 18:30 - 19:50 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
Monday 16.11. 18:30 - 19:50 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
Monday 23.11. 18:30 - 19:50 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
Monday 30.11. 18:30 - 19:50 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
Monday 07.12. 18:30 - 19:50 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
Monday 14.12. 18:30 - 19:50 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
Monday 11.01. 18:30 - 19:50 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
Monday 18.01. 18:30 - 19:50 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
Monday 25.01. 18:30 - 19:50 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The debate has been going on for centuries: Should China be isolated, kept at distance, or should it be culturally and politically engaged and integrated into the political system? And how much of this does it wish itself? Such a debate has also dominated the dealings with China in the 60 years since the foundation of the communist People's Republic. In the 1950s, at the beginning of the Cold War, the PRC was considered part of the Soviet dominated Eastern Bloc, until it's rupture with Moscow. During Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, China tried to become a leader of revolutionary movements abroad, but actually isolated itself from any international co-operation. Only in the 1970s Peking sought to normalize relations with Japan, the USA and other Western countries, but maintaining its strict distance from Moscow. It was the new policy of Reform and Opening under Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s and 90s that that did away with old grievances, and allowed China's rise to become a economic and political power with its own global interests such as the creation of a multi-polar world order and a suitable environment for this political and economic rise.

Assessment and permitted materials

Credits will be attributed on the basis of the oral presentation within the group, 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 China's international relations and foreign policy after 1949 in their historical, political and economic context, and they should acquaint themselves with available literature on the subject.

Examination topics

After an introduction to the subject the students, in small groups, prepare presentations on specific aspects, which will be analyzed and discussed by the plenum. Then the students will individually write papers on their subject (25.000 characters net + list of consulted sources and literature).

Reading list

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

Werner DRAGUHN, Günter SCHUCHER (Hrsg.): Das neue Selbstbewußtsein in Asien: eine Herausforderung? Hamburg 1995

Anja FEEGE: Internationale Reaktionen auf den 4.Juni 1989 in der VR China: Zwischen Solidarisierung, Schweigen und Sanktionen (Mitteilungen des Instituts für Asienkunde 207). Hamburg 1992

David S. G. GOODMAN (Ed.): China rising: nationalism and interdependence. London 1997

Samuel P. HUNTINGTON: Kampf der Kulturen. Die Neugestaltung der Weltpolitik im 21. Jahrhundert. Goldmann Taschenbuch. 2002

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

Peter OPITZ: Gezeitenwechsel in China: Die Modernisierung der chinesischen Außenpolitik. Zürich 1991

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

Oskar WEGGEL: Die Außenpolitik der VR China. Stuttgart etc. 1977

Thomas J. CHRISTENSEN: Chinese Realpolitik. In: Foreign Affairs, Vol. 75, No. 5 (September/October 1996)

Samuel HUNTINGTON: The clash of civilizations. In: Foreign Affairs, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Summer 1993) (oder auf deutsch als Monographie, s. oben)

G. John IKENBERRY: The Rise of China and the Future of the West. In: Foreign Affairs, Vol. 87, Nr. 1 (January/February 2008)

Stephanie KLEINE-AHLBRANDT, Andrew SMALL: China's New Dictatorship Diplomacy. In: Foreign Affairs, Vol. 87, Nr. 1 (January/February 2008)

J. Mohan MALIK: China-Indian relations in the Post-Soviet Era: The Continuing Rivalry. In: The China Quaterly (London), Nr. 142/June 1995, S. 295 ff.

Peter OPITZ: Die Außenpolitik Chinas zu Beginn der neunziger Jahre. In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Nr. 48 (1990), S. 31-46 (ÖFSE)

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)

Helmut OPLETAL: Durch Nein-Sagen zur Weltmacht? Nationalismus in China von Mao Zedong bis Deng Xiaoping. Beiträger z. Historischen Sozialkunde 4/98

PAN Qichang: Das Milieu und die Perspektive der chinesischen Außenpolitik nach dem Kalten Krieg. In: Asien, 52/Juli 1994, S. 37 ff.

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

Oskar WEGGEL: Strategische Partnerschaften - China eröffnet eine neue Ära des Antihegemonismus. In: China aktuell (Hamburg), Mai 1997, S. 409-426

Allan S. WHITING: Chinese Nationalism and Foreign Policy after Deng. In: The China Quaterly (London), Nr. 142/June 1995, S. 295 ff.

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)

http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/
(Webseite des Außenministeriums der VR China, engl.)

http://www.mofa.gov.tw/webapp/mp?mp=6
(Webseite des Außenministeriums der Republik China/Taiwan, engl.)

http://www.state.gov/p/eap/ci/ch/
(US State Department, Seite zu China)

http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/china/index_en.htm
(EU-Seite zu Beziehungen mit China, engl.)

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