Session 2: Power
1:15 – 2:45 p.m. | Madison Ballroom
With China’s rapid rise as a world power, America’s role on the world stage is quickly evolving. Panelists will offer their views on whether this shifting power dynamic poses a serious security and economic threat to the U.S., what it means for the world order, and how the U.S. should handle international relations going forward.
Presenters
Paul Blustein
Paul Blustein has been writing about economic issues throughout his career, first as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post and later as a book author focusing on international financial crises and major developments in globalization and trade.
Oriana Skylar Mastro
Oriana Skylar Mastro is a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University where her research focuses on Chinese military and security policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, war termination, and coercive diplomacy.
Panelists
Jon Pevehouse
Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs
Tana Johnson
Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science
Jessica Weeks
Professor of Political Science and H. Douglas Weaver Chair in Diplomacy and International Relations