China and the World

Meeting Thursday at USC and Friday at Occidental College, an international panel of scholars examines China's evolving relations with Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

USC and Occidental College will partner to offer a two-day conference about China today and their relation to the rest of the world.

The event will span Thursday, September 25-Friday, September 26, 2014. Breakfast is served at 9:00am and panels begin at 9:30am. Lunch will be provided. The last panel ends at 5:00pm.

Thursday, September 25th
USC Davidson Cenference Center
University of Southern California
3415 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0871

9:00am-9:30am
continental breakfast

9:30am-11:00am
Moderator: Stan Rosen, USC
China and the World- Jue Wang, Leiden University
China-USA- Beverley Loke, University of Oxford

11:00am-12:30pm
Moderator: Clayton Dube, USC
China-Europe- Shaun Breslin, University of Warwick
China-Latin America- Carol Wise and Victoria Chonn Ching, USC

12:30-2:00pm
Lunch - USC University Club

2:00pm-3:30pm
Moderator: Saori Katada, USC
China-Northeast Asia- David Kang and Ronan Tse-min Fu, USC
China-Southeast Asia- Sophal Ear, Occidental College

3:30pm-5:00pm
Moderator: Daniel Lynch, USC
China-Indian Subcontinent- Sanjeev Khagram, Occidental College
China and the Former Soviet Space- Carla Freeman, John Hopkins University

Friday, September 26th
The Global Forum
McKinnon Center for Global Affairs at Johnson Hall
Occidental College
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles, CA 90041

9:00am-9:30am
continental breakfast

9:30am-11:00am
Moderator: Ambassador Derek Shearer, Occidental College
China and the World- Jue Wang, Leiden University
China-USA- Beverley Loke, University of Oxford

11:00am-12:30pm
Moderator: Laura Hebert, Occidental College
China-Africa- Deborah Brautigam, John Hopkins University
China-Indian Subcontinent- Sanjeev Khagram, Occidental College

12:30-2:00pm
Lunch- Booth Patio

2:00pm-3:30pm
Moderator: Lan T. Chu, Occidental College
China-Southeast Asia- Sophal Ear, Occidental College
China-Latin America- Carol Wise and Victoria Chonn Ching, USC

3:30pm-5:00pm
Moderator: Larry Caldwell, Occidental College
China and the Former Soviet Space- Carla Freeman, Johns Hopkins University
China-Europe- Shaun Breslin, Warwick University

Speakers include:

Dr. Deborah Braughtigam, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Braughtigam is currently Professor of International Development and Comparative Politics and Director of the International Development Program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She has been writing about China, Africa, state-building, governance, and foreign aid for more than 20 years. Her most recent book is The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa.

Shaun Breslin, The University of Warwick
Shaun Breslin is Professor of Politics and International Studies, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He is considered as a leading British academic expert on Chinese Politics and Economy, Globalization, Regionalism, Governance and International Political Economy. He has both written and co-authored numberous books and publications in his field.

Lan T. Chu, Occidental College
Lan T. Chu is Associate Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs and Affiliated Faculty, Latino/a and Latin American Studies at Occidental College. Chu's research and teaching interests focus on the political role of religious institutions, the political liberalization processes of former and existing communist countries, faith diplomacy, and inter-religious dialogue.

Clayton Dube, University of Southern California
Clayton Dube has headed the USC U.S.-China Institute (USCI) since it was established in 2006 to focus on the multidimensional U.S.-China relationship. Dube came to USC after serving as the assistant director of UCLA’s Asia Institute. During his tenure there, he managed the U.S. Department of Education designated East Asian Studies National Resource Center.

Larry Caldwell, Occidental College
Larry Caldwell is Cecil H. and Louise Gamble Professor Emeritus in Political Science at Occidental College. Caldwell is an expert on Soviet and post-Soviet foreign and military policies, arms control, and U.S. national security policy.

Victoria Chonn Ching, University of Southern California
Victoria Chonn Ching is currently a Ph.D. student in the Political Science and International Relations program at the University of Southern California. She has also interned at the National Committee on US-China Relations in New York, and co-authored the Peruvian case in a multi-country project that examines the impact of the increasing Chinese presence in Latin America with special attention on the mining industry.

Sophal Ear, Occidental College
Sophal Ear, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Diplomacy & World Affairs at Occidental College. Ear's research and teaching focuses on international political economy, non-traditional security, and international development, including how to rebuild countries after wars. He specializes on Southeast Asia and is a leading authority on Cambodia.

Carla Freeman, Johns Hopkins University
Carla Freeman is Director of the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute at at John Hopkins University, where she is concurrently Associate Director of the China Studies program and an Associate Research Professor. She is a specialist in Chinese international and domestic policy, including environmental and regional policy.

Ronan Tse-Min Fu, University of Southern California
Ronan Tse-min Fu is a Ph.D. student in the Political Science and International Relations (POIR) Program and a Recipient of the Taiwan Fellowship at the University of Southern California. His main research interests are international relations theory, international security affairs of East Asia, and foreign policy decision-making.

Laura Hebert, Occidental College
Laura Hebert is Associate Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College. Hebert's research interests center on gender, human rights, international law, and international organizations, with a geographic emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia and a thematic focus on gender-based violence.

David Kang, University of Southern California
David C. Kang is Professor of International Relations and Business at the University of Southern California, with appointments in both the School of International Relations and the Marshall School of Business. He is also director of the USC Korean Studies Institute. His specific research has covered questions of economic development, security relations in the region, and the historical basis of contemporary relations.

Saori Katada, University of Southern California
Saori N. Katada is Associate Professor of International Relations and Director of the Politic Science and International Relations (POIR) PhD program at the University of Southern California. In addition to co-editing three books and writing numerous articles on international political economy, Katada is the author of the book, Banking on Stability: Japan and the Cross-Pacific Dynamics of International Financial Crisis Management (University of Michigan Press, 2001), which was awarded Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Book Award in 2002.

Sanjeev Khagram, Occidental College
Sanjeev Khagram is the John Parke Young Chair in Global Political Economy, Department of Diplomacy and World Affairs Faculty, and Faculty Director of Oxypreneurship at Occidental College. Khagram is known worldwide for his interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral leadership on globalization, transnationalism, sustainable development, and human security.

Beverley Loke, Oxford University
Beverley Loke is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Relations, based at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. She is attached to the Programme on Power and Region in a Multipolar Order (PRIMO), a global network of institutions investigating the emergence of regional powers and its impact on international politics. Loke's research interests include IR theory, security studies, international ethics and the international relations of the Asia-Pacific.

Daniel Lynch, University of Southern California
Daniel Lynch is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California and is a member of USC’s US-China Institute Executive Committee. Lynch’s current research focus is how Chinese elites are envisioning the future of China’s domestic politics, international relations, economy, environment, and culture.

Stan Rosen, University of Southern California
Stan Rosen teaches political science, specializing in Chinese politics and society; his courses range from Chinese politics and Chinese film to political change in Asia, East Asian societies, comparative politics, and politics and film in comparative perspective. The author or editor of eight books and many articles, he has written on such topics as the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese legal system, public opinion, youth, gender, human rights, Sino-American relations, and film and the media.

Derek Shearer, Occidental College
Ambassador Shearer is Stuart Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College. He also serves as Director of the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs, handling the college’s international relations and directing the expansion of its international affairs programs.

Jue Wang, Leiden University
Jue Wang is currently a lecturer at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS). She is a scholar of international political economy (IPE), with a focus on both China’s domestic economic development and its role in the global political economy.

Carol Wise, University of Southern California
Carol Wise joined the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California in 2002 after spending eight years on the Faculty at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. She specializes in international political economy and development, with an emphasis on Latin America.