Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy
Latest Past Events
Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Series featuring Tyler Jost – Authoritarian Arming: Domestic Threats and the Origins of China’s Military Modernization
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, CambridgeSpeaker: Tyler Jost, Assistant Professor of Political Science, International & Public Affairs and Watson Institute Assistant Professor of China Studies, Brown University. Since the late 1980s, China has transformed the People’s Liberation Army by expanding its budget. Existing scholarship tends to attribute the expanding defense budget to China's economic growth and external threats. This project instead
Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Joseph Torigian – Succession Politics and the Xi Family in the 1980s: The “Three Types of People,” “Princelings,” and Center-Provincial Relations in Hebei and Fujian
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, CambridgeSpeaker: Joseph Torigian, Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University After the Cultural Revolution, a three-fold succession crisis loomed for the People’s Republic of China. First, at the very top, old party cadres dominated and were reluctant to relinquish their positions – especially after spending so much time with no power whatsoever during the
Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Daniel Mattingly – The Party and the Gun: How the Military Shapes Elite Conflict in China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., CambridgeSpeaker: Daniel Mattingly, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University How do authoritarian leaders such as Xi Jinping consolidate political power? In this book, I examine how control over the military has been crucial for elite and mass power struggles in Chinese politics. Drawing on new quantitative data on officers in the PLA, and extensive qualitative evidence,