Suspended in 2025/26
IR345      One Unit
Global Politics of China

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Availability

This course is designed to provide students with a foundational understanding of globalisation, focusing on its challenges and opportunities in the context of China’s rise. The course is structured in three parts:

• Theoretical Foundations: We begin by exploring classic political economy theories of globalisation.

• Geopolitical Challenges: We then examine how geopolitics and China’s rise challenge and reshape these traditional frameworks.

• Applied Analysis: Finally, we apply these analytical tools to real-world topics, including industrial policies, foreign direct investment (FDI), economic sanctions, and the green transition.

10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the Winter Term.

This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Winter Term.

Formative Essay. Students are required to submit a formative essay outline by the end of Week 7 outlining their main arguments. The formative essay should be approximately 750 words. The formative assessment provides students with an opportunity to write an essay outline and receive feedback to support their preparation for the summative essay.

Frieden, Jeffry A., David A. Lake. and J. Lawrence Broz, International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth. Routledge, 2002.

Blackwill, Robert D. War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft. Harvard University Press, 2016.

Essay (80%, 2000 words)

Report (20%)

The report is a Simulation Exercise Report of 5 pages (20%) in the WT.

The essay is an Assessed Essay of 2000 words (80%) in the ST.