Over the past two decades, China has emerged as one of the world’s most impactful nations. The country’s government, military, businesses, people, and ideas have a profound global impact, shaping markets and foreign economic policies worldwide. At the same time, there is little consensus (certainly outside China) about the country’s global ambitions. What does China want? What are its global aspirations? And consequentially, how should the world respond?
This course is designed to unpack these questions. By synthesizing views and materials from political science, economics, law, and foreign relations, the course aims to provide its students with a holistic approach to addressing China’s global economic rise, its ambitions, and the potential global implications involved.
The course aspires to bridge the divide between scholarship and policy by exposure to interdisciplinary material that presents contemporary data and theory across critical issues and debates about China’s global economic ascent.
The course has three main parts. First, we will connect China’s domestic development to its global economic rise. We will learn about China’s internal institutional structures and the geopolitical experiences that impact China’s external economic affairs. Second, we will analyze contemporary global affairs issues pertaining to China’s economic rise. Here, we will explore China’s relationship with global finance, technology, institutions, and more. Finally, we will explore the most current policy questions pertaining to China’s economic ascent and will learn to analyze them critically.
An essential emphasis of the course is to help students develop critical thinking and analytical experience, as well as skills in public presentation, concise writing, and effective collegial teamwork.
This course is designed to unpack these questions. By synthesizing views and materials from political science, economics, law, and foreign relations, the course aims to provide its students with a holistic approach to addressing China’s global economic rise, its ambitions, and the potential global implications involved.
The course aspires to bridge the divide between scholarship and policy by exposure to interdisciplinary material that presents contemporary data and theory across critical issues and debates about China’s global economic ascent.
The course has three main parts. First, we will connect China’s domestic development to its global economic rise. We will learn about China’s internal institutional structures and the geopolitical experiences that impact China’s external economic affairs. Second, we will analyze contemporary global affairs issues pertaining to China’s economic rise. Here, we will explore China’s relationship with global finance, technology, institutions, and more. Finally, we will explore the most current policy questions pertaining to China’s economic ascent and will learn to analyze them critically.
An essential emphasis of the course is to help students develop critical thinking and analytical experience, as well as skills in public presentation, concise writing, and effective collegial teamwork.
- Teacher: Tamar Groswald Ozery
- TA: Hanoch Roniger