New Wave Realism V

May 12, 2023

8:45AM - 5:45PM

Virtual Event

Add to Calendar 2023-05-12 08:45:00 2023-05-12 17:45:00 New Wave Realism V Registration This is the fifth iteration of the New-Wave Realism conference. The primary aim of this conference is to help foster a community of young realist scholars, who are exploring these new global and national developments by adopting, modifying, restating, and renewing realist theories and concepts. Realism as a theoretical perspective has dominated the study of international relations for centuries. From the sophists and Thucydides, to Machiavelli and Hobbes, E. H. Carr and Hans Morgenthau, to Kenneth Waltz, Robert Jervis, and John Mearsheimer, realist thinkers have offered lucid and timely analysis of what makes the clock tick in international politics. After the Cold War, many non-realists in the field were gleefully proclaiming the death of realism, arguing that it was finished as a useful perspective for understanding world politics. Today, realism is making a comeback. With the rise of China, the return of Russia as a geopolitical player, the ascendance of Trump, populism, autocracy, inequality, economic nationalism, and geoeconomics, and the retreat of democracy and liberalism symptomatic of the decline of the United States and its liberal rule-based international order, the world appears to be moving in directions consistent with traditional realist propositions and expectations. It is a time when the United States, like other major powers, must reevaluate its foreign commitments, rethink its military capabilities, and undertake major reforms to compete on the world stage. This event is free and open to the public. This event is co-sponsored by the Program for the Study of Realist Foreign Policy at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies Speakers Andrew Byers (Director, Charles Koch Foundation) Stephanie Char (Columbia University) Andrew Goodhart (Ohio State University) Moritz Graefrath (Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School; Notre Dame) Yuji Idomoto (University of Southern California) Xinru Ma (International Strategy Forum Fellow at Schmidt Futures) Randall Schweller (Ohio State University) Ayumi Teraoka (University of Texas at Austin) Haoming Xiong (Ohio State University) Chengzhi Yin (Columbia University) Virtual Event OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

2023-05-13 09:30:00 2023-05-13 15:30:00 New Wave Realism V Registration This is the fifth iteration of the New-Wave Realism conference. The primary aim of this conference is to help foster a community of young realist scholars, who are exploring these new global and national developments by adopting, modifying, restating, and renewing realist theories and concepts. Realism as a theoretical perspective has dominated the study of international relations for centuries. From the sophists and Thucydides, to Machiavelli and Hobbes, E. H. Carr and Hans Morgenthau, to Kenneth Waltz, Robert Jervis, and John Mearsheimer, realist thinkers have offered lucid and timely analysis of what makes the clock tick in international politics. After the Cold War, many non-realists in the field were gleefully proclaiming the death of realism, arguing that it was finished as a useful perspective for understanding world politics. Today, realism is making a comeback. With the rise of China, the return of Russia as a geopolitical player, the ascendance of Trump, populism, autocracy, inequality, economic nationalism, and geoeconomics, and the retreat of democracy and liberalism symptomatic of the decline of the United States and its liberal rule-based international order, the world appears to be moving in directions consistent with traditional realist propositions and expectations. It is a time when the United States, like other major powers, must reevaluate its foreign commitments, rethink its military capabilities, and undertake major reforms to compete on the world stage. This event is free and open to the public. This event is co-sponsored by the Program for the Study of Realist Foreign Policy at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies Speakers Andrew Byers (Director, Charles Koch Foundation) Stephanie Char (Columbia University) Andrew Goodhart (Ohio State University) Moritz Graefrath (Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School; Notre Dame) Yuji Idomoto (University of Southern California) Xinru Ma (International Strategy Forum Fellow at Schmidt Futures) Randall Schweller (Ohio State University) Ayumi Teraoka (University of Texas at Austin) Haoming Xiong (Ohio State University) Chengzhi Yin (Columbia University) Virtual Event OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2023-05-12 08:45:00 2023-05-12 17:45:00 New Wave Realism V Registration   This is the fifth iteration of the New-Wave Realism conference. The primary aim of this conference is to help foster a community of young realist scholars, who are exploring these new global and national developments by adopting, modifying, restating, and renewing realist theories and concepts. Realism as a theoretical perspective has dominated the study of international relations for centuries. From the sophists and Thucydides, to Machiavelli and Hobbes, E. H. Carr and Hans Morgenthau, to Kenneth Waltz, Robert Jervis, and John Mearsheimer, realist thinkers have offered lucid and timely analysis of what makes the clock tick in international politics.  After the Cold War, many non-realists in the field were gleefully proclaiming the death of realism, arguing that it was finished as a useful perspective for understanding world politics. Today, realism is making a comeback. With the rise of China, the return of Russia as a geopolitical player, the ascendance of Trump, populism, autocracy, inequality, economic nationalism, and geoeconomics, and the retreat of democracy and liberalism symptomatic of the decline of the United States and its liberal rule-based international order, the world appears to be moving in directions consistent with traditional realist propositions and expectations. It is a time when the United States, like other major powers, must reevaluate its foreign commitments, rethink its military capabilities, and undertake major reforms to compete on the world stage.  This event is free and open to the public. This event is co-sponsored by the Program for the Study of Realist Foreign Policy at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies  Speakers Andrew Byers (Director, Charles Koch Foundation) Stephanie Char (Columbia University) Andrew Goodhart (Ohio State University) Moritz Graefrath (Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School; Notre Dame) Yuji Idomoto (University of Southern California) Xinru Ma (International Strategy Forum Fellow at Schmidt Futures) Randall Schweller (Ohio State University) Ayumi Teraoka (University of Texas at Austin) Haoming Xiong (Ohio State University) Chengzhi Yin (Columbia University) Virtual Event Mershon Center mershoncenter@osu.edu America/New_York public

May 13, 2023

9:30AM - 3:30PM

Virtual Event

Add to Calendar 2023-05-13 09:30:00 2023-05-13 15:30:00 New Wave Realism V Registration   This is the fifth iteration of the New-Wave Realism conference. The primary aim of this conference is to help foster a community of young realist scholars, who are exploring these new global and national developments by adopting, modifying, restating, and renewing realist theories and concepts. Realism as a theoretical perspective has dominated the study of international relations for centuries. From the sophists and Thucydides, to Machiavelli and Hobbes, E. H. Carr and Hans Morgenthau, to Kenneth Waltz, Robert Jervis, and John Mearsheimer, realist thinkers have offered lucid and timely analysis of what makes the clock tick in international politics.  After the Cold War, many non-realists in the field were gleefully proclaiming the death of realism, arguing that it was finished as a useful perspective for understanding world politics. Today, realism is making a comeback. With the rise of China, the return of Russia as a geopolitical player, the ascendance of Trump, populism, autocracy, inequality, economic nationalism, and geoeconomics, and the retreat of democracy and liberalism symptomatic of the decline of the United States and its liberal rule-based international order, the world appears to be moving in directions consistent with traditional realist propositions and expectations. It is a time when the United States, like other major powers, must reevaluate its foreign commitments, rethink its military capabilities, and undertake major reforms to compete on the world stage.  This event is free and open to the public. This event is co-sponsored by the Program for the Study of Realist Foreign Policy at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies  Speakers Andrew Byers (Director, Charles Koch Foundation) Stephanie Char (Columbia University) Andrew Goodhart (Ohio State University) Moritz Graefrath (Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School; Notre Dame) Yuji Idomoto (University of Southern California) Xinru Ma (International Strategy Forum Fellow at Schmidt Futures) Randall Schweller (Ohio State University) Ayumi Teraoka (University of Texas at Austin) Haoming Xiong (Ohio State University) Chengzhi Yin (Columbia University) Virtual Event Mershon Center mershoncenter@osu.edu America/New_York public

Registration

This is the fifth iteration of the New-Wave Realism conference. The primary aim of this conference is to help foster a community of young realist scholars, who are exploring these new global and national developments by adopting, modifying, restating, and renewing realist theories and concepts. Realism as a theoretical perspective has dominated the study of international relations for centuries. From the sophists and Thucydides, to Machiavelli and Hobbes, E. H. Carr and Hans Morgenthau, to Kenneth Waltz, Robert Jervis, and John Mearsheimer, realist thinkers have offered lucid and timely analysis of what makes the clock tick in international politics. After the Cold War, many non-realists in the field were gleefully proclaiming the death of realism, arguing that it was finished as a useful perspective for understanding world politics. Today, realism is making a comeback. With the rise of China, the return of Russia as a geopolitical player, the ascendance of Trump, populism, autocracy, inequality, economic nationalism, and geoeconomics, and the retreat of democracy and liberalism symptomatic of the decline of the United States and its liberal rule-based international order, the world appears to be moving in directions consistent with traditional realist propositions and expectations. It is a time when the United States, like other major powers, must reevaluate its foreign commitments, rethink its military capabilities, and undertake major reforms to compete on the world stage.

This event is free and open to the public.

This event is co-sponsored by the Program for the Study of Realist Foreign Policy at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies

Speakers

Andrew Byers (Director, Charles Koch Foundation)
Stephanie Char (Columbia University)
Andrew Goodhart (Ohio State University)
Moritz Graefrath (Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School; Notre Dame)
Yuji Idomoto (University of Southern California)
Xinru Ma (International Strategy Forum Fellow at Schmidt Futures)
Randall Schweller (Ohio State University)
Ayumi Teraoka (University of Texas at Austin)
Haoming Xiong (Ohio State University)
Chengzhi Yin (Columbia University)

8:45a - 9:00a
Randall Schweller: Opening Remarks

9:00a- 10:15a
Xinru Ma (Beijing Foreign Studies University), "Is Anti-China Nationalism Rising? Maritime Disputes, Social Media Coverage, and State Responses in Vietnam and the Philippines."

10:15a - 11:30a
Moritz Graefrath (Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School; Notre Dame), “The Consequences of Retrenchment and Collapse: Great Power Responses to Power Vacuums.”

11:30a - 12:30p
Lunch

12:30p - 1:45p
Andrew Goodhart (Ohio State University), "Realignment, Reactionaries, and Relatability: Explaining Conservative Views of Russia.”

1:45p - 3:00p
Ayumi Teraoka (University of Texas at Austin), “Third-Party Coercion and Grey-Zone Conflicts: Assessing the East China Sea, 2008-2014.”

3:00p - 3:15p
Coffee Break

3:15p - 4:30p
Yuji Idomoto (University of Southern California), “How Much Does China’s Rise Matter? A Cross-Regional Analysis of Threat Level.”

9:00a- 10:15a
Stephanie Char (Columbia University), "Effectiveness of Countercriticism Coercion among Third-Party States."

10:15a - 10:30a
Coffee Break

10:30a - 11:45a
Christopher Dictus (University of Virginia), "A Spy in the Fold: Reducing Uncertainty Through Intelligence."

11:45a - 12:45p
Lunch

12:45p - 2:00p
Haoming Xiong (Ohio State University), “The Struggle for Connectivity: Networks and Disruptive Strategy in Great-Power Competition.”

2:00p - 3:15p
Chengzhi Yin (Columbia University), "China’s Wedge Strategies: Detaching Vietnam from the Soviet Union, 1975-1979"

3:15p - 3:30p
Randall Schweller: Closing Remarks

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