Economic Expansions, Past and Present: How America’s Experience Connects to Modern-Day China

In late 2013, the Chinese leadership launched the ambitious Belt and Road strategy to counter industrial overcapacities and economic downturn. Economic priorities have driven the strategy’s implementation thus far. The Belt and Road, albeit in its early stage, has mobilized Chinese commercial actors into new development drives and helped stabilize the national economy. What can we make of the patterns of Chinese behavior? What kinds of short-term and long-term implications can we draw? This program will seek answers to these questions by going beyond China and back to history. Princeton University professor Atul Kohli will present his research on the political economy of historical British and American empires. Boston University professor emeritus Andrew Bacevich will provide comments on Professor Kohli’s research and on China’s outbound influence.

ORGANIZER(S): African Studies Center at Boston University
EVENT WEBSITE: http://www.bu.edu/africa/calendar/?eid=201191