Shifrinson Gives Talk at Harvard Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Joshua Shifrinson, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, gave a February 5, 2019 talk at the Harvard University Program on U.S.-Japan Relations on a paper he co-authored with Jennifer Lind, Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and Faculty Associate at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies at Harvard.
Shifrinson and Lind discussed their paper, “The External Sources of Rising State Strength,” in which they evaluate how patronage from an existing great power can facilitate an emerging great power’s rise as a full-fledged member of the great power ranks.
Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson’s teaching and research interests focus on the intersection of international security and diplomatic history, particularly the rise and fall of great powers and the origins of grand strategy. He has special expertise in great power politics since 1945 and U.S. engagement in Europe and Asia. Shifrinson’s first book, Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts (Cornell University Press, 2018) builds on extensive archival research focused on U.S. and Soviet foreign policy after 1945 to explain why some rising states challenge and prey upon declining great powers, while others seek to support and cooperate with declining states.