Great Power Strategy: US/China

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Juris Doctor

This course examines the strategies that great powers pursue to achieve foreign policy and national security objectives. In particular, it aims to help students understand the key drivers and dimensions of competition between the United States and China. The course is structured around a series of questions related to aspects of Sino-American competition, namely the role of power shifts, perceptions, signaling, coercion, technology, ideology, alliances, economic statecraft, and leadership. Students will review foundational literature in each area so that they can better understand the fundamental logic of the emerging strategic competition and its likely future path.