SSU Forum / Book Launch Event “UpstartーHow China Became a Great Power”

This book talk event features authors who research focuses on Chinese military and security policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, war termination, and coercive diplomacy. Using granular data and authoritative Chinese sources, Oriana Skylar Mastro demonstrates that China was able to climb to great power status through a careful mix of strategic emulation, exploitation, and entrepreneurship on the international stage, and tells a more realistic account of China’s rise in a way that blends together those with an interest in business strategy and international relations includes accessible explanations of the Chinese military modernization and its challenge to the United States, based on the authors’ extensive military experience in strategy and plans.

Speaker: Oriana Skylar MASTRO
Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies/Courtesy Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

Discussant: MASUO T. Chisako
Professor, The Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University/Adjunct Fellows, The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)/Research Committee, The Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS)

Moderator: SAHASHI Ryo 
Associate Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI) / Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo

*This workshop was organized by subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.