This course focuses on
China’s global economic outreach now and in the future. By drawing
insights from the empirical Arctic case, the lectures focus on different
types of practices that China currently advances in its urge to become a
primary node of the global
economy (e.g. company acquisitions, infrastructure investments,
sanctions, panda diplomacy etc.). The scenario workshop sessions provide
a chance to apply this understanding in a futures oriented setting, as
the students build scenarios for China’s Arctic engagement
up to 2035/2050 by using major International Relations (IR) theories as their backbones.
- Teacher: Liisa Kauppila