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Bring y our lunch and enjoy some snacks with the SPPGA community as Assista nt Professor Alex Yu-Ting Lin uses the South Chin a Sea disputes as an example to explore how the US and China assess each ot her's broader strategic intentions and what causes escalation. This lunchti me talk offers a critical lens into one of the most consequential relations hips 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 Pub lic 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. Hi s book project\, Contestation from Below\, theorizes how smaller states sha pe when and why rising powers become dissatisfied with their status and see k to revise the international order. An article from the book project recei ved the Patricia Weitsman award from the International Security Studies Sec tion (ISSS)\, International Studies Association (ISA). His other research e xamines how states pursue their revisionist aims within international insti tutions or through information warfare.
He received his PhD in Politi cal Science and International Relations from the University of Southern Cal ifornia.
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