China and the USA: cooperation or conflict?

Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • show knowledge of the history of relations between China and the United States
  • describe problems of conflict and cooperation arising within the contemporary relationship between the United States and China
  • provide definitions of a range of concepts used in International Relations, including interdependence, relative and absolute gains, positive-, negative- and zero-sum games
  • demonstrate some of the ways the study of conflict and cooperation in the international system is analysed by applying simple conceptual models, including defining different forms of interdependence; zero-, positive- and negative-sum games; and relative and absolute gains.