Events

China’s Role in the World: Is China Exporting Authoritarianism?

Speakers: Elizabeth Economy, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Associate Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin Naima Green-Riley, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University Maria Repnikova, Assistant Professor in Global Communication, Department of Communication, Georgia State University Chair: Alastair Iain Johnston, The Governor James […]

Yuen Yuen Ang – Does Corruption Really Disappear as Countries Grow Richer?

Speaker: Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Discussant: Patrick O. Okigbo, founder of Nextier and M-RCBG senior fellow This webinar is part of M-RCBG's weekly Business & Government Series. Yuen Yuen Ang is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016) and China's Gilded Age: The […]

Nirupama Rao – The Fractured Himalaya

Speaker: Nirupama Rao, Former Foreign Secretary of India and Ambassador to the United States and China Chair: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs Part of the Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute […]

Wendy Leutert – The Reform & Global Expansion of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Speaker: Wendy Leutert, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington. Discussant: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor in Business, Government, and International Economy, Harvard Business School. Hosted by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Presented via Zoom Register at: […]

Michael McElroy – Decarbonizing India’s Economy

Presented via Zoom

Topics: Speaker: Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University; Chair of the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment India, the second most populous country […]

Victor Seow – Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Topics: Speaker: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University Discussants:Megan A. Black, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyConevery Bolton Valencius, Boston CollegeGabriela Soto Laveaga, Harvard UniversityModerator: Shigehisa Kuriyama, […]

Roselyn Hsueh – Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia

Speaker: Roselyn Hsueh, Associate Professor of Political Science, Temple University Hsueh will discuss how her book’s Strategic Value Framework shows that the perceived strategic value orientation of state elites rooted in significant phases of internal and external pressures shape dominant patterns of market governance, which vary by country and sector within country. Specifically, Hsueh’s research […]

Nitasha Kaul – ‘Inbetween’ India and China: Bhutan’s International Relations

CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Topics:  Speaker: Nitasha Kaul, University of WestminsterModerator: Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University The antagonistic relationship between India and China is marked by a high mutual threat perception, frequent hostilities along their […]