Chinese Diplomacy Goes Global

1.5 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course will examine the foreign policy of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with special attention to the Middle East. The course will identify major trends in the PRC’s foreign relations during the past seventy years and address the following questions: What drives PRC foreign policy? Who runs it? What major security challenges does the PRC face domestically, in its immediate neighborhood, the wider Asia-Pacific region, and the Middle East? What strategies has the PRC adopted to address these challenges? The instructor teaches graduate level classes on Chinese Foreign Policy and Chinese Military Power in the School of Foreign Service Asian Studies Program and serves as Distinguished Fellow, China at the US Institute of Peace.