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The Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program, was founded in 2004 and and seeks to integrate an advanced study of China's foreign relations into internation...
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The Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program, was founded in 2004 and and seeks to integrate an advanced study of China's foreign relations into internation...
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  • Episode 27: C&WP And SIWPS Joint Conference
    The China and the World Annual Conference. Held in 2023 at Columbia University
    2023/03/03
    3:27:16
  • Episode 26: 'China’s Law Of The Sea: The New Rules Of Maritime Order' With Isaac Kardon
    Conflicts over specific rules lie at the heart of the disputes, which are about much more than sovereignty over islands and rocks in the South and East China Seas. Instead, the main contests concern the strategic maritime space associated with those islands. To consolidate control over this vital maritime space, China’s leaders have begun to implement “China’s law of the sea”: building domestic legal institutions, bureaucratic organizations, and a naval and maritime law enforcement apparatus to establish China’s preferred maritime rules on the water and in the diplomatic arena.   Isaac B. Kardon examines China’s laws and policies to defend, exploit, study, administer, surveil, and patrol disputed waters. He also considers other claimants’ reactions to these Chinese practices, because other states must acquiesce for China’s preferences to become international rules. China’s maritime disputes offer unique insights into the nature and scope of China’s challenge to international order. Isaac B. Kardon is a senior fellow for China studies in the Asia Program. He was formerly assistant professor at the U.S. Naval War College, China Maritime Studies Institute, where he researched China’s maritime affairs, and taught naval officers and national security professionals about PRC foreign and security policy. Isaac’s scholarship has centered on China’s development of maritime power, with research on China’s maritime disputes and law of the sea issues, global port development, and PLA overseas basing; China-Pakistan relations are another area of special focus. His writing appears in International Security, Security Studies, Foreign Affairs, the Naval War College Review, and other scholarly and policy publications. Isaac’s book, China’s Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order (Yale, 2023), analyzes the extent to which China is “making the rules” in regional and global orders.  At Carnegie, Isaac will build on the foundation of his research on China in the maritime commons to explore China’s influence on the wider global commons. Subsea, space, and cyber domains, in particular, are important “frontier issues” prioritized by China’s leadership—and key sites to observe China’s influence on vital global rules, norms, and standards. He will also expand “past the pier,” following an existing stream of research on PRC port development to explore the data networks that accompany China’s robust and growing position in global maritime trade and transport networks.
    2023/02/21
    1:44:31
  • Episode 25: "The Geopolitics Of Anticipatory Adaptation To Climate Change: Evidence From China" - With CWP Fellow Eyck Freymann
    The literature on climate security identifies two basic categories of climate risk. The first relates to extreme weather events and other geophysical impacts that directly affect human lives and well-being. The second relates to the cascading institutional and social consequences of geophysical impacts, which can include migration and conflict. I establish the existence of a third kind of climate security problem: anticipatory adaptation to climate change impacts that have not yet taken place, which triggers security dilemmas between great powers and creates new forms of interaction between great powers and small states. I theorize the phenomenon and characterize it empirically with American, Russian, and Chinese scholarly and policy documents and field interviews in Greenland.  Eyck Freymann is a joint Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center's Arctic Initiative and the Columbia–Harvard China & the World Program, where he researches the geopolitics of climate change. He is also a Non-Resident Research Fellow with the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College.  His first book, One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World, was published by the Harvard Asia Center Press in 2020. His writings on U.S.–China relations and other current affairs topics have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic. As a reporter and columnist for The Wire China, he is also the author of “The Warming War,” a series of reports on the breakdown in climate diplomacy and its implications for the planet and the U.S.–China relationship. 
    2023/02/07
    1:22:19
  • Episode 24: 'Overseas Investment As Soft Power? Chinese And US FDI In Africa' - Xiaonan Wang (Current CWP Fellow)
    Abstract: Scholars increasingly interpret overseas investment as a form of economic soft power, swaying local public opinion to favor the investing firm’s home country. Conceptualizing soft power as a function of both influence and affinity, this study examines how citizens react when firms from major foreign powers – and from their prominent rival – invest locally. Using a unique dataset of over 750 geolocated Chinese and US FDI projects in 23 countries in Africa and connecting those projects to survey responses from over 37,000 citizens, we demonstrate that citizens assign greater influence to major powers whose firms invest locally and reduce the influence they extend to the major power’s rival. Importantly, however, the influence that countries derive from their firms’ overseas investments in Africa cannot be likened to greater affinity: proximity to Chinese and US foreign direct investment (FDI) projects decreases rather than increases citizens’ preferences for the respective country’s development approach, even as it increases their perceived influence. The findings suggest that investing powers are viewed more as heavy-handed bosses than supportive partners, and that FDI thus may not provide a straightforward path to soft power.
    2022/12/13
    1:28:19
  • Episode 23: EP23 - 'China’s Alliance Balancing Strategies And The Korean Peninsula' - Chengzhi Yin (Current CWP Fellow)
    Alliance balancing strategies—policies of a great power to divide hostile alliances and maintain its own alliances—are important tools to influence a target’s alignment and tip the balance of power. Among other great powers, China frequently uses alliance balancing strategies to maintain its sphere of influence. When choosing these strategies, China has three options: accommodation, coercion, and “wait and see.” How does China choose among these options? Using archives and government documents, this research shows that two factors—China’s leverage over the target state and its perceived threat from the target-adversary alignment—determine China’s choices. This research evaluates the theory by examining two cases in which China chose its alliance balancing strategies toward North Korea in the 1960s and toward South Korea in the 2010s. Findings of this research further our understanding of alliance dynamics and shed light on the logics of China’s behavior in great power competition
    2022/12/06
    1:24:13

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