HowChinaThinksAboutWarPeace

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course is an intensive examination of Chinese thinking about war and peace from the Warring States period (403-221 BC) to 21st Century China. Many scholars, analysts and observers assume that there are key strategic continuities in Chinese approaches to war and peace that cut across time and historical context. This course has two goals. The first is to provide an introductory understanding of key continuities and discontinuities in Chinese strategic thinking across millennia. The second is to provide some conceptual tools to help put Chinese strategic thought into comparative perspective.