Shifrinson Speaks at Cato Institute Panel on Great Power Competition

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Joshua Shifrinson, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spoke as part of a panel entitled “The Return of Great Power Competition,” at the Cato Institute on January 15, 2019. 

In light of the Trump administration emphasizing the reemergence of great power competition as the organizing principle for U.S. foreign policy, the panel explored what scholarship should inform its understanding of how to compete with China and Russia and how international relations will change in an era when new actors are challenging the status quo. You can watch the entire panel below:

In addition to Shifrinson, the panel included David Edelstein, Vice Dean of Faculty in Georgetown College and Associate Professor in the Department of Government, the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and the Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University; Stacie E. Goddard, Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College; and Paul K. MacDonald, Associate Professor at Wellesley College. The discussion was moderated by Christopher Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute.

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. 

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