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The 6th Dr Li Dak Sum Shanghai-Hong Kong Development Lecture – The Development Trend of World Politics: Towards a New Cold War Era?

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Date:

23 Nov 2018

Time:

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Venue:

LT1, Esther Lee Building

Speaker(s):

Prof Wang Jisi

Biography of Speaker:

Wang Jisi is a Boya chair professor and president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University. He is honorary president of the Chinese Association for American Studies, and was a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of China’s Foreign Ministry in 2008-2016.

After working as a laborer in the Chinese countryside in 1968-78, Wang Jisi entered Peking University and obtained an MA degree there in 1983. He taught in Peking University’s Department of International Politics (1983-91), and then served as director of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences until 2005. From 2005 to 2013, Wang Jisi served as dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University. He was concurrently director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China from 2001 to 2009.

Wang Jisi was a visiting fellow or visiting professor at Oxford University (1982-83), University of California at Berkeley (1984-85), University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (1990-91), and Claremont McKenna College in California (2001). He was invited as a Global Scholar by Princeton University in 2011-15 and spent 9 months in total there with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has served as an adviser to a number of international institutions and journals, including the Asia Society Policy Institute, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo, the journal The American Interest, and the journal Global Asia.

Professor Wang’s scholarly interests cover U.S. foreign policy, China’s foreign relations, Asian security, and global politics in general. He has published numerous works in these fields.

Admission:
Enquiries:

39436762 / shkdi@cuhk.edu.hk

Event Details:

Title: The Development Trend of World Politics: Towards a New Cold War Era? (Conducted in Mandarin)

Organizer: Shanghai-Hong Kong Development Institute, Chinese University of Hong Kong & Fudan University

Co-organizer: Economic Research Centre, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Synopsis of Lecture:

Only in Chinese:

單邊主義和反全球化興起,國際多邊協商機制湧現裂痕,為全球治理帶來甚麼壓力?

民粹主義和地緣政治加劇,激化貿易衝突與軍備競賽,怎樣扭轉和平时代的發展方式?

威權主義和強人政治回潮,發達國家的話語權衰落,如何重塑世界政治的價值觀?

Remarks:

All are welcome. Free admission. Tea Reception after the Lecture.