Books and compendiums can be bought in Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus. You will need a valid semester card to buy compendiums.
Books
Ross and Bekkevold, eds. (2016) China in the Era of Xi Jinping: Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges, Georgetown University Press
Ross, R. S. and Tunsjø, Ø (Red). Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China: Power and Politics in East Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press
Compendium
Bobo Lo, “Russia’s Eastern Direction – Distinguishing the Real from the Virtual”, Russie. Nei. Reports No 17, (2014). 32 p
James Bellacqua, Introduction “Contemporary Sino-Russian Relations: Thirteen Years of a Strategic Partnership” in James Bellacqua (ed.) The Future of China-Russia Relations, University Press of Kentucky, (2010), pp 1-10. 10 p
Richard Samuels, Securing Japan. Chapter 2, “Baking the Pacifist Loaf” (2007), pp. 38-59. 21 p
Robert S. Ross and Andrew Nathan (1997) “The Rise and Decline of the Russian Threat” (chapter 3), in The Great Wall and Empty Fortress. China’s Search for Security, pp. 35-55.
Sten Rynning, ed. (2017) South Asia and the Great Powers: International Relations and Regional Security, I.B. Tauris, pp. 147-174.
Online articles
Alessio Patalano & James Manicom, “Rising Tides: Seapower and Regional Security in Northeast Asia”, Journal of Strategic Studies, Special Issue, Vol. 37, No. 3, June 2014, pp. 335-464. 129 p
Alessio Patalano, “Japan as a Seapower: Strategy, Doctrine, and Capabilities under Three Defence Reviews”, 1995–2010, pp: 403-441. 38 p
Andrew S. Erickson, “Rising Tide, Dispersing Waves: Opportunities and Challenges for Chinese Seapower Development”, vol.37 3 (2014) pp. 372-402.
Andrew Small, “China's Caution on Afghanistan–Pakistan”, The Washington Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 3, 2010, pp. 81-97.
Bjørn Elias Mikalsen Grønning, “Japan’s Shifting Military Priorities: Counterbalancing China’s Rise” in Asian Security, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2014), pp. 1-21.
Björn Jerdén and Linus Hagström, “Rethinking Japan’s China Policy: Japan as an Accommodator in the Rise of China, 1978-2011” in Journal of East Asian Studies, No. 12 (2012), pp. 215-250. 35 p
Christensen, T. J. (2001). “Posing Problems Without Catching Up: China’s Rise and Challenges for U.S. Security Policy,” International Security Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 5-40 (35 p)
Dingding Chen and Jianwei Wang, “Lying Low No More? China's New Thinking on the Tao Guang Yang Hui Strategy,” China: An International Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2011) pp. 195-216. (21 p)
Dai Bingguo, “Adhere to the Path of Peaceful Development,” Xinhua, Dec. 6, 2010, pp. 1-14.
Ian Bowers, “The Republic of Korea and Its Navy: Perceptions of Security and the Utility of Seapower”, pp. 442-464. 22 p
Itzkowitz, J. R. and Beckley, M., (2012/2013), "Correspondence: Debating China’s Rise and U.S. Decline" International Security, 37(3), pp. 172-181 (10 p)
James Manicom, “China and American Seapower in East Asia: Is Accommodation Possible?”, Vol. 37 (3) pp: 345-371. 26 p
Jennifer Lind, “Pacifism or Passing the Buck?” in International Security, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Summer 2004), pp. 92-121. 29 p
Jo Inge Bekkevold, “The reconfiguration of China’s geostrategic outlook”, ThinkChina.dk Policy Brief, University of Copenhagen, September 2016, pp. 1-9.
Ross, R. S. (2012). The Problem With the Pivot. Foreign Affairs. 91(6), s. 70-82. 12 p
Ross, R. S. (1999). “The Geography of Peace: East Asia in the Twenty First Century,” International Security, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 81-118 (37 p)
Thomas J. Christensen and Jennifer M. Lind “Correspondence: Spirals, Security, and Stability in East Asia,” International Security, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Spring 2000), pp. 190‒200.
Wang Jisi, “China’s Search for a Grand Strategy: A Rising Great Power finds its Way,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 90, No. 2 (March/April 2011), pp. 68-79.
Zheng Bijian, “China's ‘Peaceful Rise’ to Great-Power Status,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 84, No. 5 (Sep/Oct 2005), pp. 18-24. (6 p)
Online articles:
- are available through the University Library databases.
- are limited to computers that are connected UiO's network. You can get access from home and when travelling.
- are easy to find. Tutorials and help to access journals and other restricted library Resources.
Total required reading: 1172 pages
Suggested reading
This literature is not part of the required reading. The purpose of the recommended reading is to broaden and deepen the understanding of the subjects addressed in the course.
Alastair Iain Johnston, Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History, Princeton University Press, 1998.
Alastair Iain Johnston and Robert S. Ross, eds., New Directions in the Study of Chinese Foreign Policy, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.
Alexander Lukin “What the Kremlin is Thinking” in Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug 2014 Vol 93, Issue 4 pp. 85-93.
Avery Goldstein, Rising to the Challenge: China's Grand Strategy and International Security, Stanford University Press, 2005.
Bader, J. (2012). Obama and China's Rise: An Insider's Account of America's Asia Strategy, (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press).
Bjørn Terjesen and Øystein Tunsjø, eds., “The rise of naval powers in Asia – and Europe’s decline”, Oslo Files on Defence and Security, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, December 2012.
Bobo Lo, Axis of Convenience. Beijing, Moscow and The New Geopolitics, Brookings Institution Press, (2010)
Brantly Womack, “Asymmetry and China’s Tributary System”, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol. 5, 2012, 37–54.
Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Christina Yueng and Nebojsa Bjelakovic, “The Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership: View from Beijing and Moscow” in The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, (2010), pp. 243-291 (48 pages)
David M. Lampton ed., The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy, Stanford University Press, 2001.
Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevenko, “Status Seekers. Chinese and Russian responses to U.S. Primacy” in International Security (2010), pp. 63-95 (just to offer an “non-realist” article for students to get some other perspectives)
Goldstein, A. (2008). Parsing China's rise. I: R. S. Ross & Z. Feng (Eds.) China's Ascent. Power, security, and the future of international politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 55-86
G. John Ikenberry and Michael Mastanduno, eds., International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
Hackigan, N. (ed.), (2014). Debating China: The U.S.-China Relationship in Ten Conversations, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Hew Strachan, “The lost meaning of strategy”, Survival, Volume 47, Issue 3, 2005, pp. 33-54.
Jakub J. Grygiel, Great Powers and Geopolitical Change, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 (Ch. 6: “The Geostrategy of Ming China”), pp. 123-63.
James Bellacqua (ed.) The Future of China-Russia Relations, University Press of Kentucky, (2010)
Jeanie L. Wilson, Strategic Partners. Russian-Chines Relations in the Post-Soviet Era, M.E. Sharpe, (2004)
John W. Garver and Fei-Ling Wang, "China's Anti-encirclement Struggle", Asian Security, Volume 6, Issue 3, 2010: pp. 238-261.
John W. Garver, China’s Quest. The History of the Foreign Relations of the People’s Republic of China, Oxford University Press, 2016.
John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, Paperback, W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
M. Taylor Fravel, “Regime Insecurity and International Cooperation: Explaining China’s Compromises in Territorial Disputes,” International Security, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Fall 2005), pp. 46-83.
M. Taylor Fravel, “International Relations Theory and China’s Rise: Assessing China’s Potential for Territorial Expansion,” International Studies Review, Vol. 12, No. 4 (December 2010), pp. 505-532.
Peter Dutton, Robert S. Ross and Øystein Tunsjø, eds., Twenty-First Century Seapower: Cooperation and conflict at sea, Routledge, London, 2012.
Phillip C. Saunders, “Confronting Ambiguity: How to Handle North Korea's Nuclear Program,” Arms Control Today, (March 2003).
Reilly, J (2017) “Popular Nationalism and Economic Interests in China’s Japan Policy”, in Ross, R and Tunsjø, Ø (eds.) Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China: Power and Politics in East Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 169-195.
Richard Samuels, Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia, Cornell University Press, 2007.
Scott D. Sagan, “Origins of the Pacific War,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Spring 1988), pp. 893-922.
Schweller, R (2017) “Domestic Politics and Nationalism in East Asian Security”, in Ross, R and Tunsjø, Ø (Red). Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China: Power and Politics in East Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 15-40.
Tunsjø, Ø. (2011) Geopolitical shifts, great power relations and Norway’s foreign policy. Cooperation and Conflict, 46(1), pp.60-77.
Tunsjø, Ø. (2008) US Taiwan Policy: Constructing the Triangle, (London: Routledge).
Victor D. Cha, “Hawk Engagement and Preventive Defense on the Korean Peninsula,” International Security, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Summer 2002), pp. 40-78.
Westad, Odd Arne, Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750, Basic Books, 2012.
Younkyoo Kim and Stephan Blank “Same Bed Different Dreams: China’s ‘Peaceful Rise’ and Sino-Russian Rivalry in Central Asia”, in Journal of Contemporary China, (2013), pp. 1-18.
Zheng Yongnian and Weng Cuifen, “The Development of China’s Formal Political Structures”, in Robert S. Ross and Jo Inge Bekkevold, eds. (2016) China in the Era of Xi Jinping: Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges, Georgetown University Press, pp. 32-65.
Øystein Tunsjø, Security and Profit in China’s Energy Policy: Hedging Against Risk, Columbia University Press, New York, 2013.