Are the US and China Destined for Conflict?

Ryan Hass, Brookings Institution Director – John L. Thornton China Center Senior Fellow – Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies

Hass focuses his research and analysis on enhancing policy development on the pressing political, economic, and security challenges facing the UnitedStates in East Asia.

He is the author of Stronger: Adapting America’s China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence (Yale University Press, 2021), a co-editor of Global China: Assessing China’s Growing Role in the World (Brookings Press, 2021), of the monograph, The future of US policy toward China:  Recommendations for the Biden administration (Brookings, 2020), and a co-author of U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis? (Brookings Press, 2023). He also leads the Democracy in Asia project at the Brookings Institution and is co-chair of the international task force on Taiwanconvened by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Sponsored by the Department of History and the Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences.

Free and open to the public.  Light refreshments will be served.

Crisis and Conflict in Historical Perspective is a co-curricular initiative of the History Department at Washington University in St. Louis serving undergraduates considering careers in policy, as well as the greater WashU and St. Louis communities seeking historically-informed discussions about global events.