FIU explores the ascendance of China


The School of International and Public Affairs presents “Will China Rise Peacefully?” with University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer.  The lecture is part of the prestigious Ruth K. and Shepard Broad Distinguished Lecture Series.

The event is scheduled for 2 p.m., Thursday, March 25,  in the International Pavilion of the MARC Building at FIU’s Modesto A. Maidique Campus.

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. Professor Mearsheimer has written extensively about security issues and international politics more generally. He has published four books: Conventional Deterrence (1983), which won the Edgar S. Furniss, Jr., Book Award; Liddell Hart and the Weight of History (1988); The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), which won the Joseph Lepgold Book Prize; and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (with Stephen M. Walt, 2007), which made The New York Times best seller list and has been translated into 17 different languages.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For information, call 305-348-7266. For information about the Ruth K. and Shepard Broad Distinguished Lecture Series, please click here.