PLEASE NOTE this is a 2013 reading list—the precise content may change in future years.
Term 1, Week 2
The impact of rising states on existing hegemonic powers – historical precedents (e.g. Wilhelmine
Germany) and current challenges
Topics for discussion:
1. How similar are the international contexts of the rise of Germany at the end of the
19th century and the rise of China et al at the beginning of the 21st?
2. What, if any, valid generalizations can be derived from a comparison of them for the foreign
policies of Germany and China?
3. What do the BRICSAM states have in common?
4. Do these commonalities indicate similarities in their domestic politics and foreign policy?
Essential Reading
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Charles A. Kupchan No One's World: the West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global
Turn (chaps 1,4,5)
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Paul Kennedy The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (chap 5, esp. pp.269-77))
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Fareed Zakaria The Post-American World (esp. chaps 2-4)
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Robert Gilpin War and Change in World Politics (esp. chap.5)
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John J. Mearsheimer ‘Why China’s Rise Will Not Be
Peaceful’ (http://mearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/A0034b.pdf)
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John J. Mearsheimer The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (esp. chaps 2,6,11)
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b) the concept of BRICSAM as a group
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Goldman Sachs Dreaming with BRICs: the Path to
2050 (http://www2.goldmansachs.com/ideas/brics/brics-dream.html)
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Goldman Sachs BRICs and Beyond (http://www2.goldmansachs.com/ideas/brics/book/BRICFull.pdf)
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Jean Coussy ‘Emerging Countries: an Attempt at Typology’
(http://ciaonet.org/book/cup/0016215/f_0016215_13991.pdf)
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Jim O'Neill The BRIC Road to Growth
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Rohan Venkataramakrishnan 'Ten Charts that Prove that BRICS States Have Little in
Common' ( http://scroll.in/article/670290/Ten-charts-that-prove-BRICS-nations-have-littlein-common)
Additional Reading
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Subhash C. Jain (ed.) Emerging Economies and the Transformation of International Business:
Brazil, Russia, India, China (chaps 12,16,18,19)
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Peter Enderwick Understanding Emerging Markets: China and India (chaps 2,6)
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Mark Kobayashi-Hillary (ed.) Building a Future with BRICs: the Next Decade for
Offshoring (conclusion)
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Svetlana Borodina & Oleg Shvyrkov Investing in BRIC Countries: Evaluating Risk and
Governance in Brazil, Russia, India and China (chaps 1-4)