题目(Theme)：What is “Global power” and in what ways does china have it? 中国是“全球大国”吗？ 国际政治经济学视角的讨论
　
Speaker：Shaun Breslin（Professor of Politics and International Studies,University of Warwick, United Kingdom; Director, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR))

主持人（Moderator）: 王 勇 (必赢242net官网教授、国际政治经济研究中心主任）Dr.Wang Yong,Professor School of International Studies, and Director Center for International Political Economy at Peking University

讲座地点(Venue): 国关楼C104 (Seminar Room C104, School of International Studies Building C)

时间(Time): 5月20日（周三） 上午10:00-12:00 May 20, Wednesday 10:00-12:00

主办单位(Organizer)：必赢242net官网国际政治经济研究中心 Center for International Political Economy, Peking University

工作语言（Working Language）：英文 English

Abstract of the Lecture:

While it is not hard to find assertions that China is a “global power”, what it means to be and/or have global power is often left undefined. And this is not just a China problem – defining power in international relations in general and assessing who has it (and how much of it) remains a somewhat challenging task. This lecture aims to unpack the study of China’s global power by focussing specifically on political economy dimensions of power. It does so first by establishing five different understandings or definitions of what it means to be a global power. It then makes a distinction between two different sources of power. The first focus is on ideational power – and here a key distinction is the way that ideational power is partly innate and internally derived, and also partly externally granted. In this respect, how others interpret what China is, what it wants, how it will act, and what it represents has helped propel a (limited) ideational global power shift. The second focus is on the growth of China’s material power – and here a key distinction is made between three different dimensions of economic power – production, markets and finance. While the first two have played a role in increasing China’s global profile, the suggestion here is that it is the latter that has been most significant to date in increasing China’s ability to generate change in/by others – change that they might not otherwise have wanted to make.

Bio. of Speaker:

Shaun Breslin is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He is considered as a leading British academic expert on Chinese Politics and Economy, Globalization, Regionalism, Governance and International Political Economy. [2]

He is the author of China and the Global Political Economy (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007), Mao (Harlow: Longman, 2000, first edition 1998.), and China in the 1980s: Centre-Province Relations in a Reforming Socialist State (Basingstoke: Macmillan and New York: St Martins, 1996). Professor Breslin is also the co-author of four other academic books and numerous publication in his field.

Professor Breslin is an Associate Fellow of the Asia Research Centre based at Murdoch University and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Centre for European Studies, Renmin University. Professor Breslin is the Co-Editor of the Pacific Review. He also sits on the Editorial Committee of the Review of International Studies, the China and World Economy and Fudan Review of International Relations. In 2010, he joined Chatham House as an Associate Fellow in their Asia Programme.