Bring your lunch and enjoy some snacks with the SPPGA community as Assistant Professor Alex Yu-Ting Lin uses the South China Sea disputes as an example to explore how the US and China assess each other’s broader strategic intentions and what causes escalation. This lunchtime talk offers a critical lens into one of the most consequential relationships shaping the 21st century.
This event is co-sponsored by the Public Humanities Hub.
About the Speaker:
Alex Yu-Ting Lin is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. He is also a nonresidential affiliated faculty at the University of Notre Dame’s International Security Center.
Alex studies the causes and strategies of revisionism, with a focus on US-China relations and Asian security. His book project, Contestation from Below, theorizes how smaller states shape when and why rising powers become dissatisfied with their status and seek to revise the international order. An article from the book project received the Patricia Weitsman award from the International Security Studies Section (ISSS), International Studies Association (ISA). His other research examines how states pursue their revisionist aims within international institutions or through information warfare.
He received his PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Southern California.
