The Obama administration seeks to develop constructive cooperation with China and, by late 2011, had developed an integrated regional strategy in Asia to bring this about. Prof Kenneth Lieberthal from Brookings Institution and University of Michigan analyzes the sustainability and the likely effectiveness of this strategy and discusses his vision about the future relationship of China and the US.
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The Obama administration seeks to develop constructive cooperation with China and, by late 2011, had developed an integrated regional strategy in Asia to bring this about. But there are serious questions about the sustainability of this strategy and its likely effectiveness. Ultimately, domestic developments in both China and the US will play a large role in their future relationship.
About the speaker
Prof Kenneth Lieberthal is Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and in Global Economy and Development and also is Director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, and served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asia on the National Security Council from August 1998 to October 2000.
Prof Lieberthal has written and edited eighteen books and monographs, including: Bending History: Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy (with Martin Indyk and Michael O’Hanlon) (Brookings Press 2012); Managing the China Challenge: How to Achieve Corporate Success in the People’s Republic of China (Brookings Press, 2011; and Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform (W.W. Norton, second revised edition 2004) -- Chinese translation published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Press in January 2010.
Prof Lieberthal serves or has served as a consultant for the US Departments of State, Defense, and Commerce, the World Bank, the Kettering Foundation, the Aspen Institute, the United Nations Association and corporations in the private sector. He is Senior Advisor to the Cowen Group and Senior Director of the Albright-Stonebridge Group. He serves as a member of the Boards of Directors/Advisors of, among others, the National Committee on US China Relations, the National Bureau of Asian Research, Tsinghua University’s Center for China in the World Economy, and as an Honorary Senior Fellow of the Institute of American Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He serves on six editorial boards.
Free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come first-served basis.
