About this Event
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a valid government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00pm on Oct. 16 for campus access.
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Speakers:
Aaron Glasserman, Distinguished Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Erica Downs, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
Richard Nephew, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
Discussant and Moderator:
Thomas J. Christensen, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations; Director, China and the World Program, Columbia Universtiy
This panel will discuss the implications of the ongoing Iran war for China’s relationship with the Gulf countries. The speakers bring a mix of expertise in energy, economics, domestic politics, and international relations.
Speakers' Bios:
Aaron Glasserman is a scholar of China and a Distinguished Fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. His research examines Chinese politics, history, and society and what they mean for the rest of the world, particularly the Middle East as well as the United States. A frequent commentator on Chinese affairs and U.S.-China relations, Dr. Glasserman writes for policy and public audiences as well as scholarly ones: his work has appeared in The China Quarterly, The Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, The International Journal of Asian Studies, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, as well as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, ChinaFile, China Brief, and publications by the National Bureau of Asian Research. He has held research positions at Harvard University, Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania and received a PhD in History from Columbia University in 2021 and a BA in Near Eastern Studies (summa cum laude) with certificates in Chinese and Arabic from Princeton University in 2013. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has also held non-resident and professional fellowships at the Wilson Center, the Center for a New American Security, the Institute for Global Affairs at Eurasia Group, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
Erica Downs is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, focusing on Chinese energy markets and geopolitics. She previously worked as a senior research scientist in the CNA Corporation’s China program, a senior analyst at Eurasia Group, a fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution, an energy analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, and a lecturer at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing, China.
Richard Nephew is a senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy. He is also the Bernstein Adjunct Fellow at the Washington Institute on Near East Policy. He has served in the U.S. government on multiple occasions, most recently as the U.S. Coordinator on Global Anti-Corruption and, before that, the Deputy Special Envoy for Iran. He is the author of The Art of Sanctions (2018).
Thomas J. Christensen is James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations and Director of the China and the World Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and the Pritzker Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. He was previously William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics at Princeton University. From 2006-2008 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs with responsibility for relations with China, Taiwan, and Mongolia. His research and teaching focus on China’s foreign relations, the international relations of East Asia, and international security. He has also taught at Cornell University and MIT. He received his B.A. from Haverford College, M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He was presented with a Distinguished Public Service Award by the United States Department of State.
This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and cosponsored by the China and the World Program.
Event venue & nearby stays
Weatherhead East Asian Institute (located at the School of International and Public Affairs), 420 West 118th Street, New York, United States
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