RCAST Security Seminar #15 on China-Middle East relations in the Historical Institutional Contexts

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RCAST is pleased to announce a seminar by Prof. Lisa Blaydes, a leading political scientist whose main field of research has been the Middle East, on the re-arising connectivity between China and the Muslim West. Based on her fresh-from-the-oven article, she explores historical and institutional conditions for the patterns of growth and stagnation of cities along the “Silk Roads.” Implications to the present-day Chinese advance to the Middle East are also to be discussed. Prof. Hiroki Takeuchi, an erudite scholar specialized in Chinese politics responds to her propositions.

RCAST Security Seminar #15: "China-Middle East Ties in Historical Contexts: Cultural and Institutional Roots of Connectivity"

Speaker: Lisa Blaydes, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/lisa-blaydes

Discussant: Hiroki Takeuchi, Associate Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Sun & Star Program on Japan and East Asia in the Tower Center, at Southern Methodist University
https://www.smu.edu/TowerCenter/People/Administration/TakeuchiHiroki

Moderator: Satoshi Ikeuchi, Professor of Religion and Global Security, RCAST, the University of Tokyo

Speaker's Bio: 
Lisa Blaydes is a Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. She is the author of State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein (Princeton University Press, 2018) and Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak’s Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Her articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Middle East Journal, and World Politics. She holds degrees in Political Science (PhD) from the University of California, Los Angeles and International Relations (BA, MA) from Johns Hopkins University.

This seminar is co-organized by Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) of the University of Tokyo (Komaba II) and the Institute for Advanced Global Studies (IAGS) of the University of Tokyo (Komaba I). 

Categories: Open to RCAST and The University of Tokyo Staff, Faculty & Students and Invitees

RSVP: Please drop a line to office@me.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp