{"id":36351,"date":"2019-01-17T16:19:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T21:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=36351"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:24:57","slug":"shifrinson-briefs-congressional-staffers-on-power-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2019\/01\/17\/shifrinson-briefs-congressional-staffers-on-power-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifrinson Briefs Congressional Staffers on Power Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/01\/Shifrinson1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/01\/Shifrinson1-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/joshua-shifrinson\/\">Joshua Shifrinson<\/a><span>,\u00a0Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,\u00a0<\/span>gave a briefing to a bipartisan group of Congressional staff members on January 16, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to about 70 staff members from the Senate and House, Shifrinson discussed\u00a0United States strategy and the return of great power politics. His talk built upon his book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu\/book\/?GCOI=80140107997660&amp;fa=author&amp;person_id=5940\"><em>Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts<\/em><\/a><span>\u00a0(Cornell University Press, 2018) and<\/span> covered how growing U.S. competition with the People&#8217;s Republic of China requires adjusting, where and how the U.S. engages in the world, shifts in defense spending and military plans, and cultivating new forms of diplomatic relationships. \u00a0Shifrinson also met with several members of the House and their staffs one-on-one.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Had an amazing time briefing Congressional staffers on U.S. grand strategy and the return of great power politics. Terrific crowd and A+ questions, with real thoughtful engagement on all sides (real bipartisan consensus)! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BUPardeeSchool?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BUPardeeSchool<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BU_PSI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BU_PSI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MIT_SSP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MIT_SSP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zth7DF4P30\">pic.twitter.com\/zth7DF4P30<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Shifrinson (@shifrinson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shifrinson\/status\/1086002808703410176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/joshua-shifrinson\/\">Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson\u2019s<\/a><span>\u00a0teaching 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.\u00a0 He has special expertise in great power politics since 1945 and U.S. engagement in\u00a0Europe and Asia.\u00a0Shifrinson\u2019s first book,\u00a0<\/span><i>Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts<\/i><span>\u00a0(Cornell University Press, 2018)\u00a0builds on extensive archival research focused on\u00a0U.S. and Soviet foreign policy after 1945\u00a0to explain\u00a0why some rising states challenge and prey upon declining great powers, while others seek to support and cooperate with declining states.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Joshua Shifrinson briefed 70 staff members from the Senate and House on United States strategy and the return of great power politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8414],"tags":[11087,11088,8673,10838,11090,11089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36351"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36362,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36351\/revisions\/36362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}