China's Impact on the International Order: Supporter or Revisionist?

The Sigur Center for Asian Studies in Washington, D.C. presents a talk about the Rising Powers Initiative, Transnational Asia.

Speaker:
Dr. Lanxin Xiang  Professor of International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

What is "international order"? Historically, Chinese views on existing international order have undergone several stages of transformation. The fundamental question today is whether or not China should continue adhering to an international order to whose rules China has contributed little. The future trend is that China has to be a "selective" participant in that order, and at the same time, it will try to make contributions to the changing rules of the game.

Lanxin Xiang is Professor of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI), Geneva. He was also Director of China Policy Analysis at HEID. He held the Henry A. Kissinger Chair of Foreign Policy and International Affairs at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, in 2003-04. He has also held a Chair of International Affairs at Fudan University in Shanghai, and Zijiang Chair at East China Normal University and a Visiting Chair at Foreign Affairs University, (CFAU), Beijing. He is a Senior Associate at CSIS in Washington, DC, and Contributing Editor at Survival, IISS, London. He is a regular commentator for South China Morning Post, Hong Kong and Global Times, Beijing. A graduate of Fudan University in Shanghai, he has a PhD from the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. His publications include three English books and five in Chinese. Currently he is finishing a book project titled, The Leibniz Paradox: China and The West in the 21st Century.

Please RSVP at go.gwu.edu/LanxinXiangApril10 by Monday, April 9, 2012.