Pardee Center Hosts Rising Power Initiative Launch Event
On February 26, 2021, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, an affiliated center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted a launch event for its new research program: the Rising Powers Initiative (RPI).
The event, titled “The Rise of China: Theory, Practice & Implications for the Biden Administration,” featured Professor Aaron Friedberg of Princeton University, Professor Stacie Goddard Wellesley College, Manjari Chatterjee Miller, RPI Director and Associate Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School, and Joshua Shifrinson, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School. Questions were also posted by the RPI core faculty Ambassador Jorge Heine, Research Professor at the Pardee School, Kevin Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy and Director of the Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) at the Pardee School, and Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies.
Panelists discussed the main policy issues key to the United States-China relationship, the history of that relationship and shifts that occurred under the Trump administration, whether the U.S. is in decline as a global power, and the foreign policy challenges facing the Biden administration.
A recording of the event can be viewed below.
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is an interdisciplinary research center affiliated with the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. Through programs of scholarship, outreach, and education, the Pardee Center works to improve public decision-making and policy to train future generations of interdisciplinary scholars. Read more about the Pardee Center on their website.