This is a research seminar on China's role in the global economy. The course will focus on China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The goal is to provide an in-depth understanding of the BRI, a key initiative of China's efforts to globalize that has engendered much attention, including suspicion. The approach examines what BRI is in theory and in practice. Most importantly, this course will examine how BRI has played out in different countries and different sectors over time, and how it has been received and leveraged within China by different groups, including local authorities, to serve their interests. Students will submit a final research paper. NOTE: OSPBEIJ OSPBEIJ 25 is the same as -Political Science OSPBEIJ 248D/OSPBEIJ 348D-. Students may not earn credit for both.
3 units · Letter or Credit/No Credit · GER: WAY-SI
This is a research seminar on China's role in the global economy. The course will focus on China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The goal is to provide an in-depth understanding of the BRI, a key initiative of China's efforts to globalize that has engendered much attention, including suspicion. The approach examines what BRI is in theory and in practice. Most importantly, this course will examine how BRI has played out in different countries and different sectors over time, and how it has been received and leveraged within China by different groups, including local authorities, to serve their interests. Students will submit a final research paper. NOTE: OSPBEIJ 25 is the same as -Political Science 248D/348D-. Students may not earn credit for both.
Offered in Spring 2027 at Stanford University.