CRC's 2nd Annual Event: Dr. Susan Shirk presents on U.S.-China Relations, Nov.16th, 7:00 p.m.

Download Flyer

Susan ShirkSpeaker: Dr. Susan Shirk, Professor, Ho Miu Lam Endowed Chair in China & Pacific Relations; Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies’ University of California, San Diego

Topic: "U.S.-China Relations: The Domestic Political Challenge"

Location: The Carter Center, The Chapel; Free and open to the public

Date and Time: Monday, Nov. 16th, 2009, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Contact: Dr. Penelope Prime
prime_pb@mercer.edu

Co-sponsors: The Confucian Institute of Atlanta; the National Association of Chinese Americans; and the Georgia Institute of Technology Center for International Business Education and Research

About the Speaker:

Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and professor of political science. Shirk first traveled to China in 1971 and has been doing research there ever since.

During 1997-2000, Shirk served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for China, Taiwan,Hong Kong and Mongolia.

She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.

Shirk’s publications include many articles and books, including How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC’s Foreign Trade and Investment Reforms (Brookings); The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China (University of California Press); and Competitive Comrades: Career Incentives and Student Strategies in China (University of California Press). Her latest book, China: Fragile Superpower, was published by Oxford University Press in Spring 2007.