PSIR409 POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC RISE OF CHINA
| Course Code: |
3540409 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
6.0 |
| Department: |
Political Science And International Relations |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
China’s unprecedented economic rise, and thus her political influence, has led to expectations that China is on the way to replace the USA as a new global hegemonic power. This course aims to analyse China’s transformation from ‘a backward agricultural society’ to become ‘a world economic and political power’. It will follow the trajectory of how elements of capitalism and socialism are synthesized into Chinese style socialism. Basic institutions of Chinese politics and their evolutions since 1950 will be analysed by looking at the roles of ideology, political institutions, economic and political reforms, state-society relations and relations with the global system.
