Teaching - Assistant Professor

Teaching

Duan Xiaolin

Title:

Assistant Professor

Education Background:

Ph.D in Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Email

duanxiaolin@cuhk.edu.cn

Office Address

TxB 1115

Phone

+86 755 23 516558

Teaching Area

International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Chinese Foreign Policy

Other

Research

Chinese foreign policy, nationalism, territorial dispute, foreign policy analysis theories

Personal Website

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Duan-Xiaolin

Teaching List

GLB5410 Diplomacy: Theory and Practice

GLB5440 Foreign Policy Decision Making

This course is to introduce foreign policy analysis as a well-defined sub-field of international relations. It aims to understand the processes by which state foreign policies are made, utilizing interdisciplinary insights to explain specific events and generate policy-relevant knowledge. It will introduce and highlight a variety of theories in foreign policy decision-making and their applicability in various issue areas and under different circumstances by doing a series of comparative case studies of major players in world politics. In doing so, it will explore various factors that may impede rational choice in foreign policy decision making and the possible ways that irrationality in foreign policy decision-making could be minimized.

GLB5480 Economic Statecraft & Negotiations

The course provides students with both academic and practitioners’ perspectives of economic diplomacy and negotiations through an integrated approach by deploying focused case studies. It does not only address the practices of economic diplomacy, but also highlights the role of economic statecraft in defining how power and influence of nation-states are exercised across the globe in the 21st century. The course will also discuss the strength and weakness of various forms of economic statecraft such as economic sanction, economic assistance, trade war and discuss their effectiveness in the context of globalization and interdependence.

GLB5120 Theories & Practice of International Relations

This course introduces the main theoretical approaches of international relations, including realism, liberalism, constructivism, radicalism, and their variants, and examines how these theories conceptualize international relations as a field of study and how these theories. It will trace the evolution and development of international relations theories by highlighting various debates and conversation among different theoretical perspectives and how these debates have helped move the discipline forward. The course tends to provide students with the conceptual, theoretical and analytical tools necessary to evaluate the arguments critically in international relations when conducting their research.

GLB5210 Foundation of International Political Economy

This course focuses on the political foundations and consequences of the contemporary world economy and the dynamic and complex interaction between state and market, and power and wealth. It addresses the major theoretical approaches to study international political economy and debates among different schools in the field. This course also surveys the evolution of the international economic systems since the Second World War, with particular reference to the post-Cold War international political and economic order. It will discuss the concrete and important issues in international political economy such as international trade, finance, production and the even increasing connection between domestic political economy and international political economy under the context of globalization.

HSS2101 Chinese foreign policy

This course will explain selected macro, medium and micro theories, concepts, and analytical frameworks of international relations and foreign policy analysis, and help students utilize them to analyze the contemporary affairs in Chinese foreign policy and East Asian security. This course will cover important topics including great power competition and Sino-U.S. relations, Taiwan and cross-Strait relations, Sino-Japan relations and Diaoyu/Senkaku Island dispute, South China Sea and China’s relations with the Southeast Asia, Nuke proliferation in the Korean Peninsula, and others. At the end of this course, students will master a basic knowledge about the subject and understand the complexity of foreign policy process in general and in China context.