Events 2022-2023
China's Party State Capitalism
Lingling Wei is the chief China correspondent of The Wall Street Journal and co-author of Superpower Showdown. She will talk about how Xi Jinping is reshaping and ring-fencing China's economy amid heightened competition with the U.S. This event will be held at the CMC Athenaeum and it is co-sponsored by the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at CMC.
Location: CMC Athenaeum
Globalization, R.I.P.?
Daniel William Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He argues that there is reason to believe that globalization is being challenged in a way that none of us have seen in our lifetimes. Professor Drezner will deliver the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies' 2022-23 Arthur Adams Family Distinguished Lecture on International Affairs.
Location: CMC Athenaeum
Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia
Conventional wisdom treats Russian politics as either an extension of Vladimir Putin's worldview or Russia's unique history, but in Weak Strongman, Timothy Frye, the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy at Columbia University, emphasizes Russia's similarities to other autocracies and highlights the difficult trade-offs that confront the Kremlin on issues from election fraud and repression to propaganda and foreign policy. Balancing personal anecdotes from his 30 years of researching Russia and cutting-edge social science, Weak Strongman offers the best evidence available about how Russia actually works, why Russia invaded Ukraine, and what the future holds for US-Russian relations.
China’s Unusual Rise: How China Builds and Exercises Military Power, 1995-2020
How do rising countries like China build influence in a world dominated by more established powers? Whereas most experts assume that China has sought to emulate the U.S., Oriana Skylar Mastro, Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, argues that China has become powerful mainly through doing things differently. Beijing has exploited U.S. blind spots, maneuvered in areas of uncertainty, and engaged in what she calls “entrepreneurial” foreign policy. These findings have significant implications for understanding China's unique strategic approach—a necessary pursuit if the U.S. is to successfully engage in great power competition.