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Osher's Summer Lecture Series explores the changes that must take place to enable China and the United States to conduct themselves in a manner that will ensure mutually beneficial competition and avoid conflict? We'll address these questions by inviting recognized experts and officials from the United States, China, and Canada to examine the conflicts and suggest a way forward.

Professor Jeremy Paltiel is Professor Emeritus of political science at Carleton University in Ottawa. He received his BA in East Asian Studies from the University of Toronto in 1974; diploma in Philosophy from Beijing University in 1976; MA (1979) and his PhD (1984) in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Empire’s New Clothes: Cultural Particularism and Universality in China’s Rise to Global Status (Palgrave, 2007). Recently, he co-edited Canada and Great Power Competition: Canada Among Nations 2021 with David Carment and Laura Macdonald while contributing a chapter on “How Canada Became Hostage to Sino-American Rivalry in the Affair of Meng Wanzhou and the ‘Two Michaels’.” 

Last year he published “Between Two Orders in the Asia Pacific Navigating a Treacherous Reef” in Lowell Dittmer ed. The New Asian Disorder (Hong Kong University Press, 2022). In 2018 he published “Facing China: Canada Between Fear and Hope” (International Journal 73(3)). In 2016 published a co-edited volume with Huhua Cao, Facing China as a New Global Superpower: Domestic and International Dynamics from a Multidisciplinary Angle published by Springer. He also co-edited a special issue of Canadian Foreign Policy on Canada and emerging markets with Laura Macdonald and “China and the Six-Party Talks” (2007), “Mencius and World Order Theories” (2010), “China’s Regionalization Policies: Illiberal internationalism or Neo-Mencian Benevolence?” (2009). 

He has authored numerous other articles on Chinese politics, human rights and the Chinese tradition, civil-military relations in China, East Asian foreign relations and Sino-Canadian relations, and has made frequent media presentations.

This session will be moderated by Ellen Frost, Adjunct Senior Fellow, East West Center.

More details at https://dartgo.org/osher-china. FREE for Dartmouth faculty, staff, and students; register with osher@dartmouth.edu or call (603) 646-0154