Elliott School Book Launch Series

China & the World is the most comprehensive and up-to-date scholarly assessment of China’s relations and roles in the world. Edited by Professor David Shambaugh and including chapters by fifteen other leading international experts on China, this volume covers China’s contemporary relations with all regions of the world, with other major powers, and across multiple arenas of China’s international interactions. It also explores the sources of China’s grand strategy, how its historical experiences shape present policies, and the impact of various domestic factors on China’s external behavior.

The event was co-sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies.

From Elliott School Professor of Practice Robert Sutter comes the second edition of his book, The United States and Asia: Regional Dynamics and Twenty-First-Century Relations. Now fully revised and updated, this book describes how the United States has tried to maintain its leading position as a power in Asia despite China's rising influence. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and will be followed by a Q&A moderated by NBR President Roy Kamphausen.

Elliott School Associate Professor of History and International Affairs Nemata Blyden discusses this relationship between African Americans and Africa by mapping overlapping diasporas from the era of slavery to the present day in her new book African Americans & Africa: A New History.

In partnership with the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES), this Elliott School Book Launch Series event explored French post-migratory postcolonial minorities’ influence on French national identity and contemporary cultural production. From hip-hop and institutional memory to laïcité and literature, editors Kathryn Kleppinger and Laura Reeck presented an enlightening portrait of the past and present state of post-migratory postcolonial culture and society in France. To learn more, check out the editors' conversation with Liverpool University Press or, better yet, Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France in its entirety.

A packed house greeted Elliott School Professor of Practice Robert G. Sutter when he commemorated his latest book, Foreign Relations of the PRC, with an event entitled: Xi Jinping's Foreign Policy Vision—Powerful Image versus Restricted Reality. Co-sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, and kicked off by Sigur Center Associate Director and Elliott School Research Professor Deepa Ollapally, this event offered timely analysis on critical questions concerning China's foreign policy during Xi Jinping's second term. For more, check out the web video of the event.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES), the launch of Elliott School Professor Ilana Feldman's new book, Live Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics, brought together a diverse audience eager to learn more about Palestinian refugees' engagement with humanitarian assistance. Engaging moderation by Elliott School University Professor Michael Barnett and a dynamic book talk from Professor Feldman ensured a successful discourse on the book and issues beyond.

It was standing room only when Assistant Dean and Professorial Lecturer Tobias Greiff launched his new book: Violent Places: Everyday Politics in Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina. Co-sponsored by the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES), this event featured opening remarks from University of Baltimore Assistant Professor Sarah Federman, an illuminating book talk from Dr. Greiff, and a spirited Q&A.

The path breaking Mr. X and the Pacific began many decades ago when Adjunct Professor Paul Heer was a GW PhD candidate in the 1990s. Heer chose to bring the book home for its launch and colleagues, media, staff, and students turned out to both support the publication and better understand George Kennan's influence on American East Asia policy.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, this launch featured a book talk from author, Elliott School Professor Emeritus, and distinguished scholar of Soviet and post-Soviet government and politics Peter Reddaway; insightful commentary from Russia experts Robert Orttung and Donald Jensen; and a lively Q&A, courtesy of our distinguished attendees. For more, check out GWToday's coverage of the event.