Charlie Wang (SFS'22), a technology policy researcher and alumnus, has won the 2024 Rhodes Scholarship — the second Hoya to win the oldest, most competitive international scholarship this year.
The U.S.-China relationship is now defined by “strategic competition.” In Cold Rivals: The New Era of U.S.-China Strategic Competition (2023), a distinguished group of scholars from the United States and China…
Drawing inspiration from the Leninist origins of the People’s Republic of China, in his book Retrofitting Leninism: Participation without Democracy in China (2022) Dimitar Gueorguiev offers a novel explanation for how…
Despite the decreasing importance of ideology and the alternative career options provided by a liberalized employment market, working for the administration remains one of the most coveted career paths for…
How do states coerce citizens into compliance while simultaneously minimizing backlash? In this seminar, University of Toronto professor Lynette H. Ong will discuss her latest book, Outsourcing Repression (2022). Ong examines…
China’s green transition is often perceived as a lesson in authoritarian efficiency. In a mere few years, the state managed to improve air quality, contain dissent, and restructure an economy…
In this seminar, Yue Hou will discuss her paper, co-authored by Xinrui Feng and Mingxing Liu, that presents one of the first studies of the political behavior of female legislators…
For the first few decades of China’s economic reforms, scholars described Chinese capitalists as co-opted by the state, unlikely to pose a political threat and partner to the regime in…
In recent years, the U.S.-China competition has shifted into the realm of values. China is often accused of being an immoral power, out to spread authoritarianism and build an illiberal…
