Students attending Master's courses will be able to participate on a library course. At the course you will learn how to do searches in both national and international databases, and you will have the opportunity to search the articles that is on your curriculum.The course is voluntary, but we strongly recommend that students attend. More information to come.
Book
Robert S. Ross and Andrew Nathan, The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress. China’s Search for Security, pp. 19-122, chapters 2-6. 104 p
To be found in an article compilation which can be bought at Kopiutsalget at Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus
Bobo Lo, Chapter 3, “Strategic Partnership. Image and Reality” in Axis of Convenience. Beijing, Moscow and The New Geopolitics, (2008), pp. 38-55. 17 p
Bobo Lo, “Russia’s Eastern Direction – Distinguishing the Real from the Virtual”, Russie. Nei. Reports No 17, (2014). 32 p
Elizabeth Economy, "The Impact of International Regimes on Chinese Foreign Policy-Making"David M. Lampton ed., The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy, Stanford University Press, 2001, pp. 230-253. 23 p
Ikenberry, J., Mastanduno, M. & Wohlforth, W. C. (red 2011). International Relations Theory and the Consequenses of Unipolarity, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), Chapters 1, 8. 62 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
Michael Yahuda, “The Limits of Economic Interdependence: Sino-Japanese Relations,” in Alastair Iain Johnston and Robert S. Ross, New Directions in the Study of Chinese Foreign Policy, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006, pp. 162-185. 23 p
Posen, R. Barry (2013). Emerging multipolarity: Why should we care? I: R. J. Art & R. Jervis. (Red.) International politics: Enduring concepts and contemporary issues. (11. utgave). New York: Pearson Longman, pp. 552-560. 9 p
Richard Samuels, Securing Japan. Chapter 2, “Baking the Pacifist Loaf” (2007), pp. 38-59. 21 p
Shambaugh, D. (2013). China Goes Global: The Partial Power (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 1-12. 12 p
Subramanian, Arvind. (2013). The Inevitable Superpower: Why China’s Dominance is a Sure Thing. I: R. J. Art & R. Jervis. (Red.) International politics: Enduring concepts and contemporary issues, (11th edition), New York: Pearson Longman, pp. 578-585. 8 p
Tunsjø, Ø. (2014). Polarity Shift and U.S.-China relations: From unipolar hedging to bipolar balancing? 29 p
Downloadable articles, books and other texts
You can search the articles and e-books in the e-journal database available at the University of Oslo Library. This requires having access to and being logged onto the UiO system. Contact the Reference Services at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library if you have problems finding the literature.
Alastair Iain Johnston, “Is China a Status Quo Power?”, International Security, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Spring 2003), pp. 5-56. (51)
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.
Beckley, M. (Winter 2011/12). “China’s Century? Why America’s Edge Will Endure,” International Security, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 41‒78 (37 p)
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
Layne, C. (March 2012). “This Time It’s Real: The End of Unipolarity and the Pax Americana,” International Studies Quarterly Vol. 56, No. 1 pp. 203‒213 (10 p)
M. Taylor Fravel, “China’s Search for Military Power,” The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Summer 2008), pp. 125-141. (16 p)
Peter Dutton, “Three Disputes and Three Objectives: China and the South China Sea”, Naval War College Review, Autumn 2011, Vol. 64, No. 4, pp. 42-67. 25 p
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 Christensen, “China, the U.S.-Japan Alliance, and the Security Dilemma in East Asia” in International Security, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Spring 1999), pp. 49-80. 31 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. 10 p
Tom Røseth, “Russia’s China Policy in the Arctic”, in Strategic Analysis (2014).
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.
Wohlforth, W. (March 2012). “How Not to Evaluate Theories,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 1 pp. 219‒222 (3 p)
Zheng Bijian, “China's ‘Peaceful Rise’ to Great-Power Status,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 84, No. 5 (Sep/Oct 2005), pp. 18-24. (6 p)
Total required reading: 1100 pages
Extra non-compulsory 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 p85-93.
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).
Bobo Lo, Axis of Convenience. Beijing, Moscow and The New Geopolitics, Brookings Institution Press, (2010)
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.
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
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)
G. John Ikenberry and Michael Mastanduno, eds., International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
Gilbert Rozman, Chapter 6 “Strategic Thought on Russia and Central Asia” in Chinese Strategic Thought Toward Asia (2010), pp. 131-154
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.
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. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, Paperback, W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
John W. Garver, Foreign Relations of the People’s Republic of China, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1993.
John W. Garver and Fei-Ling Wang, "China's Anti-encirclement Struggle", Asian Security, Volume 6, Issue 3, 2010: pp. 238-261.
Linda Jakobson and Dean Knox, “New Foreign policy actors in China”, SIPRI Policy Paper, No. 26, September 2010.
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.
Michael Leifer, ASEAN and the Security of South East Asia, London: Routledge, 2013 (first published in 1989).
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).
Victor D. Cha, “Hawk Engagement and Preventive Defense on the Korean Peninsula,” International Security, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Summer 2002), pp. 40-78.
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.
Susan Turner, “China and Russia after the Russian-Georgian War” in Comparative Strategy, 30:1, (2010), pp. 50-59.
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 Larin, “Russia and China: New Trends in Bilateral Relations and Political Cooperation” in FROM APEC 2011 TO APEC 2012: American and Russian perspectives on Asia-Pacific Security and Cooperation (Ed: Rouben Azizian and Artyom Lukin).
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.
Øystein Tunsjø, Security and Profit in China’s Energy Policy: Hedging Against Risk, Columbia University Press, New York, 2013.