PP LECTURE | Brantly Womack: Recentering Pacific Asia
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
Public Policy Lecture Series
Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order
(PPL-01)
Professor Brantly Womack
About the Speaker
Brantly Womack is Senior Faculty Fellow at the Miller Center of University of Virginia and Professor of Foreign Affairs Emeritus of UVA’s Department of Politics. From February to April 2023, he taught in Beijing as the Boeing Visiting Faculty Chair in International Relations of Schwarzman College in Tsinghua University.
His book, Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order, was published by Cambridge University Press in August 2023. Previous books include Asymmetry and International Relationships (Cambridge 2016), China Among Unequals: Asymmetric International Relationships in Asia (World Scientific Press 2010), and China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry (Cambridge 2006). He co-edited with Yuk Wah Chan Borderlands in East and Southeast Asia (Routledge 2017), with Hao Yufan Rethinking the Triangle: Washington, Beijing, Taipei (University of Macau Press and World Scientific Press, 2016), edited China’s Rise in Historical Perspective (Rowman and Littlefield 2010) and Contemporary Chinese Politics in Historical Perspective (Cambridge 1991).
Womack has visited all thirty-one Chinese provinces, and in 2011 he was given the China Friendship Award for his work with Chinese universities.
Host:
Professor Yongnian Zheng
Dean, School of Public Policy, CUHK-Shenzhen
Date:September 26th (Thursday), 2024
Time:16:00-17:30, Beijing Time
Format:Onsite
Venue:Teaching B 105
Language:English
ABSTRACT
The Pacific Rim of Asia–Pacific Asia–is now the world's largest and most cohesive economic region, and China has returned to its center. China's global outlook is shaped by its regional experience, first as a pre-modern Asian center, then displaced by Western-oriented modernization, and now returning as a central producer and market in a globalized region. Developments since 2008 have been so rapid that future directions are uncertain, but China's presence, population and production guarantee it a key role. As a global competitor, China has awakened American anxieties and the US-China rivalry has become a major concern for the rest of the world. However, rather than facing a power transition between hegemons, the US and China are primary nodes in a multi-layered, interconnected global matrix that neither can control.
SPP Media