Seminar 10. Kishore Mahbubani: “Has China Won?”

On Tuesday, 19 May 2020, the International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism and Department of International Relations of the National Research University Higher School of Economics were delighted to host a distinguished Singaporean diplomat and academic Professor Kishore Mahbubani. The topic of his talk is "Has China Won?"

Professor Mahbubani is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute of National University of Singapore (NUS). He was with the Singapore Foreign Service for 33 years (1971-2004), where he served twice as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United Nations and held the position of President of the United Nations Security Council between January 2001 and May 2002. He was Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Ministry from 1993-1998. He was also the Founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy from 2004-2017. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of seven books, including Can Asians Think?, Beyond The Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World, and The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East. His research interests are in the resurgence of Asia, ASEAN, public policies in Singapore, global geo-politics and global governance. His latest book on US-China relations entitled Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy was published in March 2020.