Professorship 2016

"US-CHINA RELATIONSHIPS IN THE 21st CENTURY"


Susan Shirk

Susan Shirk is an expert on the China-US relationship. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1974) and Master in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Researcher, professor emeritus and chair of the 21st Century China Program at the School of Policy and Global Strategy University of California, San Diego. She founded and still leads the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue Forum, (an unofficial forum for discussions of security issues).

Some of her publications are:

  • Changing Media, Changing China. Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • China: Fragile Superpower. Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • Power and Prosperity: Economics and Security Linkages in the Asia-Pacific (with Christopher Twomey). Transaction Publishers, 1996.
  • How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC’s Foreign Trade and Investment Reforms. Brookings Institution, 1994.

Her main research lines are:

  • US Policy to China.
  • Economics and Security in Asia-Pacific.
  • Reforms in China on trade and foreign investment.


"US-CHINA RELATIONSHIPS IN THE 21st CENTURY"
First conference
November 28th
"The Failure of Political Institutionalization in China" "
Second conference
November 30th
"Can the Chinese Political System Sustain a Peaceful Rise?"
Third conference
December 2nd
"US Policy Toward China:
How Well is it Working?"
Commentators:
Eugenio Anguiano Roch (CIDE)
Jorge Eduardo Navarrete (UNAM)
Commentators:
Carlos Heredia (CIDE)
José Luis León-Manriquez (UAM)
Commentators:
Ulises Granados Quiroz (ITAM)
Enrique Dussel Peters
(UNAM, Cechimex)