Speaker Niklas L.P. Swanström to discuss China’s increasingly prominent place on the global stage. The country’s leaders intend to take its foreign policy and international engagement to new levels with initiatives, such as the Asian Infrastructural investment Bank and the One Belt One Road project, that aim to proactively shape regional political landscape,.

China is increasingly taking a prominent place on the global stage. And the country’s leaders intend to take its foreign policy and international engagement to new levels with initiatives, such as the Asian Infrastructural investment Bank and the One Belt One Road project, that aim to proactively shape regional political landscape.

But there are many questions about the country’s new international role: What are China’s strengths and weaknesses in developing international influence? Can China develop international regimes and institutions with good governance? Can China develop ideas to attract international followers? Niklas L.P. Swanström will attempt to address these questions in a discussion about China’s rise to global power.
ENTRANCE: free to FCCC members, 80 RMB at the door for non-members
REGISTRATION: at www.fccchina.org/events/27052015/

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Niklas L.P. Swanström is the Director at Institute for Security and Development Policy, non-resident Professor at Sichuan Universtiy and a Research Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. His main areas of expertise are conflict prevention, conflict management and regional cooperation; Central Asian security and organized crime, Chinese foreign policy and security in Northeast Asia. Selected books: Sino-Japanese Relations: The need for Conflict Prevention and Management; Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management in Northeast Asia; Transnationell brottslighet: ett säkerhetshot? (Transnational crime: a security threat); Regional Cooperation and Conflict Management: Lessons from the Pacific Rim and Foreign Devils, Dictatorship or Institutional Control: China’s foreign policy towards Southeast Asia.
Dr. Swanström holds a Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University.