PS 308 - China and Globalization

(3.00 cr.)

During the past three decades, China's development has sparked unprecedented changes at home and abroad, leading critics to lay blame and admirers to cheer its impact on the world economy and political stability. The world's most populous country under a Communist regime has plunged into capitalist practices with abandon. Is China's quest for energy, minerals, land, water, and security fundamentally altering the world? Or, is it drawing China further into the existing international rules and institutions? Students examine the process of globalization as it is reshaping China domestically and how it is remaking the world.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IA