Shifrinson Speaks at Center For A New American Security
Joshua Shifrinson, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spoke as part of a panel at the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Center for a New American Security (CNAS) on United States grand strategy.
The panel was organized as part of the Michael J. Zak Lecture Seriers to celebrate the launch of a new CNAS report entitled, New Voices in Grand Strategy.
Shifrinson also published a chapter in the aforementioned report examining the post-Cold War course, conduct, and prospects of American strategy in Europe and Asia. The paper can be downloaded here.
Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson’s teaching and research interests focus on the intersection of international security and diplomatic history, particularly the rise and fall of great powers and the origins of grand strategy. He has special expertise in great power politics since 1945 and U.S. engagement in Europe and Asia. Shifrinson’s first book, Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts (Cornell University Press, 2018) builds on extensive archival research focused on U.S. and Soviet foreign policy after 1945 to explain why some rising states challenge and prey upon declining great powers, while others seek to support and cooperate with declining states.