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From: FA Gaskin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11 November 2009 10:38
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Subject: CEAS Seminar Monday 23rd November
China's Rise from a Regional to a Global Power: Some Theoretical and
Methodological Challenges.
by Professor Christopher Hughes, London School of Economics and Political
Science.
Date: Monday 23rd November 2009
Time: 4.00pm-5.30pm
Venue: Drawing Room, Royal Fort House, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue
Map: <http://www.bris.ac.uk/university/maps/precinct.html> (building 30)
Synopsis:
The major body of academic literature on Chinese foreign policy has
scarcely begun to explore the radical, theoretical and methodological
challenges posed by the transformation of China from a regional power in
East Asia to the status of a global power. While it is not hard to find
excellent analyses of China's relations with the United States and its
immediate neighbours, work on China's relations with other regions and
continents has only just begun to appear and remains under theorised and
empirically sketchy. This is largely due to the high demands placed on
academics when they have to work not only within a region that they know
very well and are trained to deal with, but find themselves on a steep
learning curve to come to grips with new areas, such as Africa, Latin
America of the Middle East.
At the same time, scholars working on such regions find themselves
increasingly having to take China's presence into account, but with little
experience for doing so. The resulting intellectual and organisational
problems have launched an exciting new academic agenda that most academics
in the social sciences will have to be involved with at some stage,
involving the search for new theoretical paradigms and new ways of meeting
methodological challenges by developing cross-regional and
cross-disciplinary partnerships. This paper will draw on the author's own
experience of working on China's relations with East Asia, Southeast Asia,
Africa and Latin America to discuss the theoretical and institutional
implications of this new agenda.
All Welcome.
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Felicity Gaskin
Centre for East Asian Studies
University of Bristol
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