IV Panel 3 - CWP Annual Conference - 2024 at Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies March 22, 2024

Panel #3 on “Prospects for the BRI.”
Panel discussion moderated by Rana Mitter, Harvard University
Min Ye, Boston University
Adele Carrai, New York University
Eyck Freymann, Stanford University

'Rethinking China’s International Relations: China and the World Program 20th Annual Conference' The conference was sponsored by the China and the World Program at Columbia University and co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.

Rana Mitter is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of several books, including Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II (2013) which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard, 2020). His writing on contemporary China has appeared recently in Foreign Affairs, the Harvard Business Review, The Spectator, The Critic, and The Guardian. He has commented regularly on China in media and forums around the world, including at the World Economic Forum at Davos. His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics "Meanwhile in Beijing" is available on BBC Sounds. He is co-author, with Sophia Gaston, of the report “Conceptualizing a UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group, 2020). He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History, awarded by the UK Historical Association. He previously taught at Oxford, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Min Ye is a Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. Her research situates in the nexus between domestic and global politics and the intersection of economics and security, with a focus on China, India, and regional relations. Her publications include The Belt, Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China 1998 — 2018 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and The Making of Northeast Asia (with Kent Calder, Stanford University Press, 2010). Among her journal articles, there are “Adapting or Atrophying: China’s Belt and Road after the Covid Pandemic,” (Asia Policy 24.1 2021), “Thucydides’s Trap, Clash of Civilizations or Divided Peace? Great Power Politics from TPP to BRI to FOIP” (JPWS 2, 2020); “Fragmentation and Mobilization: Domestic Politics of China’s Belt and Road Initiative” (JCC 28.119, 2019);

Maria Adele Carrai is an Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at NYU Shanghai. Her research explores the history of international law in East Asia and investigates how China’s rise as a global power shapes norms and redefines the international distribution of power. She co-leads the Research Initiative 'Mapping Global China,' and is the author of Sovereignty in China. A Geneology of a Concept since 1840 (CUP 2019) and co-editor of The China Questions 2 - Critical Insights into US-China Relations (HUP 2022). Before joining NYU Shanghai, she was a recipient of a three-year Marie-Curie fellowship at KU Leuven. She was also a Fellow at the Italian Academy of Columbia University, Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, Max Weber Program of the European University Institute of Florence, and New York University Law School.

Eyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also a non-resident research fellow at the China Maritime Studies Institute at the US Naval War College. A diplomatic historian and China specialist by training, Dr. Freymann has created work spanning the fields of political economy, climate policy, and national security. His first book, One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World, was published by Harvard University Press in 2021. His essays on China and other current affairs topics have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic. As a reporter and columnist for The Wire China, he is also the author of “The Warming War,” a series of investigative reports about the role of climate change in the US-China rivalry. He is currently working on two book projects: one about the geopolitics of climate and the other about the defense of Taiwan.