Perspectives on US, Russian, and Chinese Foreign Policy

Описание: In this live panel, our speakers discuss the goals and consequences of US, Russian, and Chinese foreign policy. This webinar is part of a series of discussions convened by Security in Context to explore the implications of multipolarity and 21st century geopolitics on the global South.

Speakers:

Daria Isachenko is Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), with a current research focus on Russia-Turkey relations, the Black Sea and European security. Before joining SWP, she worked on unrecognized states particularly in the post-Soviet space. She has a doctorate from the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Lee Jones is Professor of Political Economy and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. His research focuses on security, governance and development in the Asia-Pacific. His books include: Fractured China: How State Transformation is Shaping China's Rise (with Shahar Hameiri, Cambridge University Press, 2021), The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Markets Under Hyperglobalisation (co-edited with Toby Carroll and Shahar Hameiri, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020); Governing Borderless Threats: Non-traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation (with Shahar Hameiri, Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Societies Under Siege: Exploring How International Economic Sanctions (Do Not) Work (Oxford University Press, 2015). His website is www.leejones.tk and he tweets at @DrLeeJones.

Michael Klare, Five College professor emeritus of peace and world security studies and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association at Hampshire College, holds a B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute. He has written widely on U.S. military policy, international peace and security affairs, the global arms trade, and global resource politics. He has written fifteen books, including Resource Wars (2001), Blood and Oil (2004), The Race for What's Left (2012), and All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change (2019). His articles have appeared in many journals, including Arms Control Today, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Current History, Foreign Affairs, Harper's, The Nation, The National Interest, Newsweek, Scientific American, and Technology Review.

A former foreign policy analyst at the Institute of U.S. and Canada Studies in Moscow, Constantine Pleshakov emigrated to America in 1998. Pleshakov's books include The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Voyage to the Battle of Tsushima, Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front, and There Is No Freedom Without Bread! 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism. His most recent book is The Crimean Nexus: Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations. He teaches at Amherst College and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Min Ye is associate professor at Pardee School of Boston University. She served as the Director of East Asian Studies (2010-2014) at BU. Her publications include The Belt, Road and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and The Making of Northeast Asia (with Kent Calder, Stanford University Press, 2010). Ye received her Ph.D. at Princeton University and a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. She is also the recipient of a Smith Richardson Foundation grant, the East Asia Peace, Prosperity, and Governance fellowship, Japan's Millennium Education scholarship, and the Public Intellectual fellowship of the National Committee on the U.S-China Relations.

Moderator Omar S. Dahi is a professor of economics at Hampshire College. He is the founding director of Security in Context, a research network on peace, conflict, and international affairs.

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Edited by Nick Bythrow