Center for European Studies - Harvard University

Next Berlin Dialogue:

The Rise of China and India: Understanding the New ‘New World Order’

Monday, May 26, 2008, reception 5:30-6:00 pm, session 6:00-8:00pm

Location: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785

Session

The rise in wealth of China and India in recent years has transfixed the world and heralded a new age in international politics. For the first time in 500 years, Europe will no longer define the center of world power and competition, as it appears that the globe’s center of gravity is returning to Asia. This panels seeks to examine what this transformation means—for the people of Asia and for the rest of the world. Hearing from distinguished voices from China, India, and Europe, we will discuss: What is the outlook for continued economic growth in China and India? What are the obstacles – political, economic, social, environmental – to each country realizing its vision of success? How is this new wealth being translated into political and military power? Will China and India cooperate or compete with each other? What does the simultaneous emergence of these giants mean for the rest of the world? These are some of the great questions of the 21st century and this panel offers a tour of this new horizon.

Speakers

Chair: Siddharth Mohandas, Fellow in National Security at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research interests include state-building, military intervention, and Asian security issues. He has worked at the RAND Corporation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Prior to graduate school, he served as an associate editor of Foreign Affairs and interned as a speechwriter at the United Nations for Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He has written for various publications including Newsweek and the Christian Science Monitor. Mr. Mohandas holds an M.Phil. from Cambridge University and an A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard University.

Prof. Yu Bin, Senior Fellow at the Shanghai Institute of American Studies; analyst on Russian-China relations for the Pacific Forum (CSIS) in Honolulu, Hawaii; Professor of Political Science and Director of East Asian Studies at Wittenberg University, Ohio, USA; and president of the Association of Chinese Political Studies (1992-94). Yu earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University (1991) and his M.A. from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1982). He is the author and co-author of several books including the most recent: The Government of China (2006); Power of the Moment: America and the World After 9-11 (2002); and Mao’s Generals Remember Korea (2001). He has published more than 60 articles in journals, including World Politics, Strategic Review, Asian Survey, International Politics Quarterly (Beijing), The China and Eurasian Forum Quarterly, International Journal of Korean Studies, Harvard International Review, Comparative Connections, etc.

Sujit Dutta, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, a think tank on strategic studies and international affairs. His interests focus on China's foreign policy and diplomacy, state and politics in 20th century China, Asian security issues, and India-China Relations. His current project is on 'The Rise of China and Its Impact on Asian Security.' He heads the Institute's East Asia and South Asia Programmes, and is the Executive Editor of the IDSA's journal Strategic Analysis. Dutta has been a member of the India-China Eminent Persons' Group set up by the two governments for track two dialogue on bilateral issues, and also a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Working Group on Confidence Building Measures. He has been a member and also closely interacted with research institutions in the US, Europe, and Asia. He has written extensively and is the author of India and the World (2005) and China and Nonproliferation: Pragmatism and Adaptation (2005), among others.

Martin Klingst, Washington Bureau Chief for Die Zeit. He has worked for the North German Television and Broadcasting Corporation (NDR), and taught German law at the University of Hamburg. He covered many Constitutional and Supreme Courts (US, Israel, South Africa), and he covered the Balkan Wars from Zagreb, Sarajevo, Pristina and Skopje. Klingst spent the fall semester of 2006 at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University as a Bucerius Fellow.

Registration

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