SOAS China Institute
WSD Handa Distinguished Lecture: China’s Rise and the Security of East Asia
Speaker: Professor Thomas J. Christensen (Columbia University)
Date: Friday, 12 October 2018, 5.30pm-7pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, Brunei Gallery Building, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG.
Abstract
Many see a rising China as a security threat to the United States and its friends and allies because it seeks to drive the United States out of East Asia, dominate that region, and challenge the United States globally in a new Cold War. These concerns are overblown. But the good news ends there. The difficult challenges posed by China’s rise are real and take two forms: dissuading China from settling its many maritime disputes with weaker neighbours through coercion and military force and thereby destabilizing a region of growing global importance; and encouraging China to contribute to global stability by using its economic clout to help solve global problems such as nuclear proliferation in North Korea and Iran.
Biography
Thomas J. Christensen is Professor of Public and International Affairs and Director of the China and the World Program at Columbia University. He arrived in 2018 from Princeton University where he was William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War, Director of the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, and faculty director of the Masters of Public Policy Program and the Truman Scholars Program. From 2006-2008 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs with responsibility for relations with China, Taiwan, and Mongolia. His research and teaching focus on China’s foreign relations, the international relations of East Asia, and international security. His most recent book, The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power (W.W. Norton) was an editors’ choice at the New York Times Book Review, a “Book of the Week” on CNN”s Fareed Zakaria GPS, and the Arthur Ross Book Award Silver Medalist for 2016 at the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Christensen has also taught at Cornell University and MIT.
Registration
This event is open to the public and free to attend, however registration is required.
Register here: https://www.soas.ac.uk/china-institute/events/12oct2018-chinas-rise-and-the-security-of-east-asia.html
A drinks reception will follow the lecture.
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Best wishes,
Li-Sa Whittington
Executive Officer, SOAS China Institute
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
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