Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar, Dai Chaowu will discuss his on-going research which draws extensively on newly declassified archival evidence to examine Nixon's and Kissinger's pragmatic assessments of the changing geopolitical balance of power in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, as well as American policy planners' estimates and perceptions of East-West trade.
Joining Dai on the panel as a commentator will be Wilson Center Fellow Gregg A. Brazinsky.
Dai Chaowu is a Wilson Center public policy scholar, professor of history at East China Normal University (ECNU), and a senior fellow at ECNU’s Center for Cold War International History Studies in Shanghai, China.
Dai has also taught at Nanjing International Studies University and Nanjing University. His main research interests encompass Chinese foreign policy during the Cold War, with a focus on China-U.S. and China-India relations; U.S. diplomatic history; and Cold War international history. Dai has authored and co-authored a number of publications, including: U.S. Intelligence Estimates and America’s China Policy: A Document History; Confrontation and Era of Crisis: Taiwan Strait Crises and China-United States Relations, 1954-1958; and American Diplomatic Thoughts in History. Currently, Dai's research concentrates on the Sino-Indian Border War from 1959-1962 and Sino-US trade relations during the Nixon Administration.
Gregg A. Brazinsky is a Wilson Center fellow, a senior advisor to the Center's North Korea International Documentation Project, and an associate professor of history and international affairs at The George Washington University where he also serves as co-director of the GWU Cold War Group.
Brazinsky is a specialist on U.S.-East Asian relations during the Cold War, focusing on the social and cultural impact of the United States on East Asia. Brazinsky’s first book, Nation Building in South Korea, examines why South Korea was among the few post-colonial nations to achieve economic development and political democracy. It is the first monograph on the subject to use both American and Korean source materials.
Currently, Brazinsky is pursuing research on several other projects. One is a study of the cultural impact of the Korean War in America, Korea and China. Another focuses on Sino-American competition in the Third World during the Cold War.
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