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SUMMARY:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Series featuring Tyler Jost - Authoritarian Arming: Domestic Threats and the Origins of China’s Military Modernization
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tyler Jost\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, International & Public Affairs and Watson Institute Assistant Professor of China Studies\, Brown University. \n\n\n\nSince 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 explores the role of domestic politics. In order to guard against violent removal from power\, autocrats use distributional and institutional concessions to win favor with coercive organizations\, such as the military. As such\, elevated threats to political survival — such as leader transitions or mass demonstrations —  can lead to increases in defense budgets even in the absence of changes to economic growth or external threat. The project uses original data on China’s defense budgets since the late 1970s to evaluate candidate explanations. The preliminary analysis finds support for explanations emphasizing economic growth and domestic threats\, but limited support that variation in external threats have systematically shaped China’s defense budgets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-politics-and-foreign-policy-series-featuring-tyler-jost-authoritarian-arming-domestic-threats-and-the-origins-of-chinas-military-modernization/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy
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SUMMARY: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
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joseph Torigian\, Assistant Professor\, School of International Service\, American University \n\n\n\nAfter 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 Cultural Revolution. Second\, at the grassroots level\, the party faced the question of how to manage those young individuals who displayed questionable behavior during the Cultural Revolution but who\, at the time\, thought they were just enacting Mao’s wishes. Third\, while “princelings” – the offspring of top party officials – were seen by many old revolutionaries as the most trustworthy inheritors of the revolution\, as a group they suffered a poor reputation in society. Xi Zhongxun was the top figure on the secretariat managing these issues at the same time that his son Xi Jinping was rising the ranks in the 1980s\, but family ties were a double-edged sword for the young Xi Jinping. The situation was further complicated by disputes in Beijing and provincial capitals on how quickly to reform. Twice\, pro-reform leaders close to Xi Zhongxun were pushed out shortly after his son arrived to work in the provinces they led. Ultimately\, the story of the Xi family in this decade is a microcosm of how the party struggled to resolve the succession controversies bestowed by Mao. \n\n\n\nDr. Torigian studies the politics of authoritarian regimes with a specific focus on elite power struggles\, civil-military relations\, and grand strategy. His philosophy as a scholar is to select topics based on the widest gap between the under-utilization of available documents and their theoretical and empirical importance\, extract broader lessons\, and use those lessons to help us to understand two nations of crucial geopolitical importance – Russia and China. His research agenda draws upon comparative politics\, international relations\, security studies\, and history to ask big questions about the long-term political trajectories of these two states. In particular\, he is interested in how leaders in those countries create security against threats from within the elite\, their own people\, and other states. \n\n\n\nPreviously\, Torigian was a Stanton Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations\, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton-Harvard’s China and the World Program\, a Postdoctoral (and Predoctoral) Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)\, a Predoctoral Fellow at George Washington University’s Institute for Security and Conflict Studies\, an IREX scholar affiliated with the Higher School of Economics in Moscow\, a Fulbright Scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai\, and a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations. His research has also been supported by the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation\, MIT’s Center for International Studies\, MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives\, the Critical Language Scholarship program\, and FLAS. I am also a Global Fellow at the History and Public Policy Program at the Wilson Center. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-politics-and-foreign-policy-workshop-featuring-joseph-torigian/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy
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SUMMARY:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Daniel Mattingly - The Party and the Gun: How the Military Shapes Elite Conflict in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daniel Mattingly\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, Yale University \n\n\n\nHow 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\, I trace how leaders’ ties to military officers help them fend off elite challengers\, consolidate power\, and ratchet up mass political control. \n\n\n\nDaniel Mattingly is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He studies authoritarian politics and historical political economy with a focus on China. He is the author of The Art of Political Control in China (Cambridge University Press\, 2020)\, which examines how the Chinese state controls protests and implements ambitious social policies. It was named one of the best books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs and received the best book award from the Democracy and Autocracy Section of the American Political Science Association. His current book project examines the role of the military in China’s domestic and international politics. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a B.A. from Yale University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-politics-and-foreign-policy-workshop-featuring-daniel-mattingly/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy
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SUMMARY:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Fiona Cunningham - China’s Search for Coercive Leverage in the Information Age: Past\, Present\, Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fiona Cunningham\, University of Pennsylvania \n\n\n\nFiona Cunningham is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Faculty Fellow at Perry World House and affiliated with the Center for the Study of Contemporary China and the Christopher H.. Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests lie the intersection of technology and conflict\, with an empirical focus on China. Fiona’s current book project explains how and why China threatens to use space weapons\, cyber attacks and conventional missiles as substitutes for nuclear threats in limited wars. Her research has been published in International Security\, Security Studies\, The Texas National Security Review\, and The Washington Quarterly\, and has been featured in the New York Times and the Economist. Fiona’s work has been supported by the Stanton Foundation\, Smith Richardson Foundation\, and the China Confucius Studies Program. She has held fellowships at the Renmin University of China in Beijing\, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University\, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University\, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Fiona received her Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT in 2018. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney\, both with first class honors. From 2019 to 2021\, she was an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-politics-and-foreign-policy-workshop-featuring-fiona-cunningham/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy
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