Nicole Bodishteanu

Instructor's Biographical Note:

HSE – BSc International Relations
Professional experience: Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Headquarters - Political Department
Research interests: economics and politics of China, Chinese foreign aid and development assistance, international trade policy, Asian development


1 курс (2 модуль):

Brown K.China's World: The Foreign Policy of the World's Newest Superpower

In the next decade China's actions on the world stage will affect us all. A new superpower, with the largest population and GDP on the globe, there are now fears that China is becoming more assertive. Here, award-winning China expert Kerry Brown guides us through China's foreign policy, from its skirmishes with US Navy destroyers in the South China Sea to its arguments with Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands and its increased displays of military prowess - including huge investments in cyber warfare. Brown also assesses China's extraordinary plan to create a `New Silk Road' across Central Asia - one of the biggest infrastructure project in modern history. In doing so he seeks to answer a simple question: what does China want?

2 курс (1 модуль):

Brown K., Kalley Wu Tzu-Hui. The Trouble With Taiwan: History, Identity and a Rising China: History, the United States and a Rising China

Taiwan is one of the great paradoxes of the international order. A place with its own flag, currency, government and military, but which most of the world does not recognise as a sovereign country. An island that China regards as a 'rebellious province', but which has managed to survive defiantly for decades. Now with its neighbour China a major power on the world stage and ally United States looking increasingly inward, Taiwan's position has never been more precarious.

Brautigam D. Will Africa feed China?

Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has raised a drumbeat of alarm. China has 9 percent of the world's arable land, 6 percent of its water, and over 20 percent of its people. Africa's savannahs and river basins host the planet's largest expanses of underutilized land and water. Few topics are as controversial and emotionally charged as the belief that the Chinese government is aggressively buying up huge tracts of prime African land to grow food to ship back to China.

Rudd K. The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China

2 курс (3 модуль):

To be announced