Shifrinson Presents Paper on Europe, Asia, China and U.S. Grand Strategy
Joshua Shifrinson, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, attended a recent workshop on “China, the U.S. and Europe in a New Era” hosted by the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies and Norwegian Defence University College.
The event brought together a group of American, Chinese, and European scholars to discuss the implications of growing great power competition between the United States and the People’s Republic of China for international security.
Shifrinson presented a paper- entitled “Europe, Asia, and China in US Grand Strategy” evaluating how different grand strategic options under discussion today envision the United States’ role in Europe and Asia while assessing the changes such options would carry for current U.S. policy.
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.