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April 27: U.S. and China Relations
The United States-China relationship is fraught with rivalry and challenges on many different fronts, including political, cultural, trade, global governance, cyberwar, and conventional military brinksmanship. The next UW Now Livestream will discuss the United States-China rivalry through the lens of a new book, with one of the coauthors — former supreme allied commander of NATO, James Stavridis — as well as UW international relations expert Jessica Weeks. What factors could push the United States and China into military conflict? How can we prevent this from happening?
The talk will be moderated by Mike Knetter, president and CEO of the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association.
Featured guests:
James Stavridis is a retired four-star admiral. He is currently an operating executive of the global investment firm the Carlyle Group, and chair of the board of counselors for the international consulting firm McLarty Associates. Previously, he served for five years as the dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He led the NATO Alliance in global operations from 2009 to 2013 as supreme allied commander with responsibility for Afghanistan, Libya, the Balkans, Syria, counter-piracy operations, and cyber security. He also served as commander of U.S. Southern Command, with responsibility for all military operations in Latin America from 2006 to 2009. He earned more than 50 medals, including 28 from foreign nations, in his 37-year military career. Earlier in his military career, he commanded the top ship in the Atlantic fleet, winning the Battenberg Cup. He also commanded a squadron of destroyers and a carrier strike group. Admiral Stavridis earned a doctorate in international relations and has published nine books and hundreds of articles in leading journals around the world. His books have sold more than 200,000 copies worldwide and have been published in six languages. He is a monthly columnist for Time magazine and chief international security analyst for NBC News.
Jessica Weeks is a professor of political science at UW–Madison and the H. Douglas Weaver Chair in Diplomacy and International Relations. Her research interests include foreign policy, non-democracy, peace, political institutions, public opinion, weapons of mass destruction, and the domestic and international politics of authoritarian regimes. Her book, Dictators at War and Peace, explores the domestic politics of international conflict in dictatorships, and was published in 2014 in the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series by Cornell University Press. Weeks is the 2018 recipient of the International Studies Association Karl Deutsch Award, recognizing the scholar under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the study of international relations.
More info: https://www.allwaysforward.org/uwnow/. A recording of this livestream will be available on uwalumni.com after the event.
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