Upcoming Forum: China’s Global Future and the Future of the Globe

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will host a public forum titled “China’s Global Future and the Future of the Globe: How the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is Quietly Changing China and Surrounding Countries” on Monday, April 3, from 5:00-6:30 pm at the BU Photonics Center’s 9th Floor Colloquium Room. The forum, convened by Prof. Min Ye as part of her work as a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, will feature an international group of leading experts on China.

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Speakers:

Thomas Eder, Mercator Institute for China Studies, Germany

Thomas Eder’s research focuses on Eurasian geopolitics, EU-China relations & transnational security, and the international legal order. Prior to joining MERICS, he analyzed Sino-Russian relations and Chinese energy security, as well as China’s relations with international courts and tribunals. While he studied for his PhD in international law, he worked as a Research Associate at the Universities of Vienna and Hong Kong and a guest scholar at New York University. He also gained professional experience as a Junior Officer at the Austrian Foreign Ministry.

His book China-Russia Relations in Central Asia: Energy Policy, Beijing’s New Assertiveness and 21st Century Geopolitics (Springer, 2013) is a Neoclassical Realist analysis of Chinese academic discourse on the subject from 1997 to 2012. Eder’s draft second monograph is an interdisciplinary international law/international relations study on China’s evolving relationship with international courts and arbitral tribunals.

Julie Klinger, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University

Julie Michelle Klinger holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She is an Assistant Professor of International Relations and Faculty Fellow at the Global Economic Governance Initiative, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. Her forthcoming book, Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes (Cornell University Press, 2017) examines the historical and contemporary political economy of rare earth mining in western China and beyond. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Irmgard Coninx Stiftung, and the Boston University East Asian Career Development Professorship Award.

Mingjiang Li, Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Mingjiang Li is an Associate Professor at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also the Coordinator of the China Program at RSIS. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston University. His main research interests include China-ASEAN relations, Sino-U.S. relations, Asia-Pacific security, and domestic sources of Chinese foreign policy. He is the author (including editor and co-editor) of 12 books. His recent books are New Dynamics in US-China Relations: Contending for the Asia Pacific (lead editor, Routledge, 2014) and Mao’s China and the Sino-Soviet Split (Routledge, 2012). He has published papers in various peer-reviewed publications including Asian Security, Oxford Bibliographies, Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, Journal of Strategic Studies, Global Governance, Cold War History, Journal of Contemporary China, the Chinese Journal of International Politics, the Chinese Journal of Political Science, China: An International Journal, China Security, Harvard Asia Quarterly, Security Challenges, and the International Spectator. He frequently participates in various track-two events on East Asian regional security.

Weidong Liu, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Weidong Liu is a Professor in Economic Geography, Assistant Director, and Chair of the Center for the Belt and Road Initiative, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a key consultant to China National Development and Reform Commission on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as well as on the Western China Development Strategy. He holds many academic positions, such as board member of the Geographical Society of China (GSC) and chair of the Commission on Economic Geography of GSC, China Ambassador of Regional Studies Association (RSA) and chair of RSA China Division, full member of the IGU Commission on Local Development, general editor on Economic Geography and Regional Development of Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography, managing editor of Area Development and Policy (a RSA journal), and advisory/editorial board member of Progress in Human Geography, Contemporary Social Science, Eurasian Geography and Economics, and Asian Geographer. He is a winner of China National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2011), and National Outstanding Young Expert (2014). His interest of study includes regional development and regional policy, FDI, Multinational Corporation, GPN, automobile industry, new ICTs, and carbon emission and low carbon economy. He has published over 200 papers and book chapters, including 50 SCI/SSCI-indexed papers, and is the editor or co-editor of 12 books, including the Geographical Transformation of China published by Rutledge. In the last three years, he has focused on studies of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), providing supports to NDRC for making planning for the BRI.

Min Ye, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University

Min Ye is the author of Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and The Making of Northeast Asia (with Kent Calder, Stanford University Press, 2010). Her articles, “China’s Outbound Direct Investment: Regulation and Representation,” “Competing Cooperation in Asia Pacific: TPP, RCEP, and the New Silk Road,” and “Conditions and Utility of Diffusion by Diasporas” have appeared in Modern China Studies (2013), Journal of Asian Security (2015), and Journal of East Asian Studies (2016).

Ye was the director of East Asian Studies program from 2010 to 2014 and launched the new major in Asian Studies at Boston University. She also served as a visiting scholar at Fudan University, Zhejiang University, and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in China, as well as Rajiv Gandhi Foundation in India, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the National University of Singapore. In addition, she has consulted Chinese state-owned companies and private companies on outbound investment.

Ye has received grants and fellowships in the U.S and Asia, including a Smith Richardson Foundation grant (2016-2018), East Asia Peace, Prosperity, and Governance fellowship (2013), Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program postdoctoral fellowship (2009-2010), and Millennium Education Scholarship in Japan (2006). In 2014-2016, the National Committee on the U.S-China Relations selects Min Ye as a Public Intellectual Program fellow.

Joseph Fewsmith (Moderator), Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University

Professor Fewsmith is the author of four books:  China Since Tiananmen:  The Politics of Transition (2001), Elite Politics in Contemporary China (2001), The Dilemmas of Reform in China:  Political Conflict and Economic Debate (1994), and Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China:  Merchant Organizations and Politics in Shanghai, 1980-1930 (1985).  He is very active in the China field, traveling to China frequently and presenting papers at professional conferences such as the Association for Asian Studies and the American Political Science Association.  His articles have appeared in such journals as Asian Survey, Comparative Studies in Society and History, the China Journal, the China Quarterly, Current History, The Journal of Contemporary China, Problems of Communism, and Modern China.  He is also a research associate of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University..