Course Description：
Great Power Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics is the foundation course of the Global Competence Talent Program, which introduces and examines the diplomatic thinking and policy guidelines of the central leadership of China in the new era, its evolution and its reasons. At the same time, the course targets the strategic layout of China’s foreign policy, country and regional policies, realizing the full coverage of all-round, multi-level and three-dimensional diplomacy of major powers (the US, Russia and Europe), peripheral (East Asia, South Asia and Central Asia), developing countries (the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, etc.) and multilateral (international organizations and global governance), helping students understand the basic layout of China’s foreign policy and its policy positions on major international issues.
Course Outline：
Lecture 1: The World in Great Change and China in the New Era
Lecture 2: The Connotation of Xi Jinping’s Diplomatic Thought
Lecture 3: Safeguarding National Sovereignty, Security and Development Interests
Lecture 4: Developing a New Type of International Relations
Lecture 5: Building a Community of Destiny in the Neighborhood
Lecture 6: Building a Community of Development Destiny
Lecture 7: Promoting “One Belt, One Road” International Cooperation
Lecture 8: Participating in and Leading Global Governance Reform
Faculty Profile：
Kejin Zhao: Doctor of Law (International Relations, Fudan University), is now the Vice President of the School of Social Sciences, Vice President of the Institute of Global Co-Development, and long-appointed professor of Tsinghua University.He is also a member of the Expert Committee of the Regional Country Research Base of the Ministry of Education, a standing director of the National Association for International Politics in Colleges and Universities, a director of the Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament, a visiting professor at the School of Public Diplomacy of Jilin University, a senior researcher at the Center for Public Diplomacy at Beijing Foreign Studies University, and a senior researcher at the Chahar Society. He is mainly engaged in research on diplomatic theory, Chinese diplomacy and Sino-US relations, and has published 18 books and more than 80 SSCI and CSSCI papers. He has won five provincial and ministerial awards, and has been selected as one of the “Four Batches” of outstanding talents in Beijing.
