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Join for the China Research Center's Annual Lecture by Dr. Barry Naughton on January 24th. China’s Great Gamble: Can the Chinese Government Create a Technological Superpower? In its effort to maintain high-speed growth, China has stepped up government steerage and investment in high-tech industry. Increasingly, this has meant gambling on a new wave of untested […]
Join for a special documentary film screening of "Triage, Dr. James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma". TRIAGE follows the powerful odyssey of James Orbinski, a humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize-winning doctor, and former head of Doctors Without Borders, as he returns to Africa to ponder the meaning of his life’s work and the value of helping others. Drawing […]
2019 Theme: The UN Sustainable Development Goals in Education, Research, and Community Engagement The Annual Atlanta Global Studies Symposium fosters collaboration among institutions of higher education, the public and the community, and the k-12 sector in the Atlanta region and beyond through education, research, and outreach about global, regional, and international studies and the UN’s […]
Join the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy for a discussion on proliferation challenges regarding Iran and North Korea, and the distinctive features each case brings to the table. Discussing these issues will be Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Distinguished Professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and former Deputy Secretary at the Department […]
Forty years ago, China was “under urbanized’; less than 20% of the population lived in towns or cites and that percentage had not shifted for many decades. Today the majority of Chinese citizens live and work in urban settlements and China has more than 160 cities with a population of over one million. Market forces […]
Center for European and Transatlantic Studies and the Atlanta Council on International Relations are hosting a major conference on the EU's role in the world in the light of Brexit, non-traditional US foreign policy and the challenges posed by China and Russia. The speakers include former senior US policy makers and leading academics from both […]
In his lecture, Professor Watanabe will cover: Global challenges and regional uncertainties; how Japan and the US can jointly address the issues Strategic importance of the TPP and beyond; TPP as a “security pact” for economic relations across the region Increasing coherence in the Japan-US trade; a case of Japanese auto industry in the USA […]
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