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Joshua Shifrinson

Shifrinson Awarded Frank Stanton Foundation Grant

in Faculty News

The two-year project will be the first effort in several decades to rigorously assess the international consequences of political fragmentation in nuclear actors

Tagged: 2021, Grants, International Security, Joshua Shifrinson, Nuclear Security, research grants

Shifrinson Discusses Grand Strategy Under Biden

in Events News

In his lecture, Shifrinson focused on the Biden administration’s efforts to reassert U.S. leadership in international affairs and the difficulties of doing so.

Tagged: 2021, Grand Strategy, International Security, Joshua Shifrinson, President Joe Biden

Pardee Center Launches Rising Powers Initiative

in Centers & Programs

RPI will conduct interdisciplinary and policy-relevant research on five emerging powers with increasing global impact.

Tagged: 2021, ASEAN, China, European Union, germany, India, Jorge Heine, Joshua Shifrinson, Kaija Schidle, Kevin Gallagher, Mahesh Karra, Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future

Shifrinson Discusses Great Power Competition on Wilson Center Panel

in Events News, Videos

Professor Shifrinson discusses current U.S.-China tensions and how their relations can be viewed in the context of great power competition.

Tagged: 2021, Great Powers, Joshua Shifrinson, US-China

Bass Awarded Rangel Graduate Fellowship

in Student News

Briah Bass (Pardee BA ’21) has been selected for perhaps the most prestigious early-career fellowship for aspiring diplomats.

Tagged: 2021, Department of State, fellowship, graduate student, Joshua Shifrinson, student spotlight

Shifrinson Explores the Future of US-NATO Relations

in Research

“American strategists in the years ahead must be prepared to revisit the fundamentals of the U.S. presence in Europe and devolve authority to local actors.”

Tagged: 2021, Asia, Europe, Joshua Shifrinson, Journal Article, NATO, US NATO

Shifrinson Publishes Journal Article on “Neo-Primacy”

in Research

“Neo-primacy… risks transforming the United States into a major challenger to the status quo if not a revisionist power in its own right.”

Tagged: 2020, China, Joshua Shifrinson, US National Security, US-China

Shifrinson Co-Authors Politico Magazine Op-Ed on U.S. Alliances

in In the Media

Biden talks about “friends and allies” as if they’re the same thing. They aren’t.

Tagged: 2020, Allies, diplomacy, Joshua Shifrinson, Politico Magazine

Shifrinson Publishes Book Review in Perspectives on Politics

in Research

Professor Shifrinson and T.V. Paul review each other’s research on historical and future global power shifts.

Tagged: 2020, Great Powers, Joshua Shifrinson, Power Politics, Rising Titans Falling Giants

Shifrinson Writes on U.S.-NATO Relations in Política Exterio

in In the Media

Prof. Shifrinson discusses U.S.’s historically mixed relationship with NATO and what the future may hold.

Tagged: 2020, China, Joshua Shifrinson, NATO, Política Exterio

Shifrinson Appears on Power Problems Podcast

in In the Media

Prof Shifrinson argues that trying to create and implement a Cold War mindset with regards to China is misguided and untethered from strategic reality.

Tagged: 2020, coronavirus, Great Powers, Joshua Shifrinson, Podcast, US-China

Shifrinson Published in International Security

in Research

Professor Shifrinson explores how rising great powers manage and respond to declining peers.

Tagged: 2020, international relations, International Security, Joshua Shifrinson, Rising Titans Falling Giants

Shifrinson Quoted in Vox Article on John Bolton’s Memoir & Foreign Policy Approach

in In the Media

In discussing John Bolton and the accounts in his new memoir, Professor Joshua Shifrinson argues U.S. foreign policy would be worse off if Bolton had his way more in the White House.

Tagged: 2020, Foreign Policy, John Bolton, Joshua Shifrinson, President Trump, Vox

Shifrinson Writes in and Edits Special Issue of International Politics

in Research

Professor Joshua Shifrinson writes on the legacy of NATO enlargement in a newly released edition of International Politics.

Tagged: 2020, international politics journal, Josh Shifrinson, Joshua Shifrinson, NATO

BtH Discusses Global Challenges that will Survive COVID-19

in Beyond the Headlines, Videos

A special online edition of the Beyond the Headlines (BtH) series explores various global issues that have persisted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and will probably survive it.

Tagged: 2020, Adil Najam, BtH, COVID-19, Global Affairs, Jack Weinstein, Janine Ferretti, Joshua Shifrinson, Schmidt. Vivien Schmidt, Shamiran Mako, Vivien Schmidt

Pardee School Faculty Research Seminars go Online

in Events News, Research

The Pardee School Research Seminar Series will continue online for the rest of the semester. The latest research seminar, held online, featured Prof. Joshua Shifrinson.

Tagged: 2020, Joshua Shifrinson, Remote, remote learning, Research Seminar Series, suppression strategies

Shifrinson Talks to Weekendavisen on US, China and COVID-19

in In the Media

Joshua Shifrinson talks to Weekendavisen on COVID-19’s impact on US-Chinese relations. 

Tagged: 2020, COVID-19, Joshua Shifrinson, US-China, Weekendavisen

Shifrinson Writes in JSS on Great Powers Blocking Future Threats

in Research

Prof. Shifrinson just published a new research paper in the Journal of Strategic Studies investigating how great powers block future threats from emerging.

Tagged: 2020, Joshua Shifrinson, Journal of Strategic Studies, US NATO

Shifrinson Writes in The National Interest on the China Threat

in In the Media

Shifrinson writes in The National Interest that, “China is not the threat claimed, and inflators’ prescriptions are a recipe for overstretching and needless risk.”

Tagged: 2020, China, Donald Trump, Joshua Shifrinson, The National Interest

Shifrinson Writes in The National Interest on the China Threat

in In the Media

Shifrinson writes in The National Interest that, “China is not the threat claimed, and inflators’ prescriptions are a recipe for overstretching and needless risk.”

Tagged: 2020, China, Donald Trump, Joshua Shifrinson, The National Interest

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