Seminar 24. Charles Ziegler: “US reactions to the China-Russia partnership”

On Tuesday, December 22, 2020, the Department of International Relations and the International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism in cooperation with the School of Oriental Studies of National Research University Higher School of Economics held a joint session of the 24th Eurasian Online Seminar and China seminar. Our guest was a renowned US expert on International Relations in Eurasia Professor Charles Ziegler. The topic of his talk is “US reactions to the China-Russia partnership.”

Charles E. Ziegler is Professor and University Scholar at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. He is also Director of Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Professor Ziegler received his Ph.D in Political Science from University of Illinois. He worked as a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Pusan National University in Republic of Korea and a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He was also a National Fellow at Hoover Institution of Stanford University. His major teaching and research interests are International Relations, Foreign Policy, Comparative Politics, Security, Russian Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics, East Asia, Central Asia, and Democratization in Asia. 

Professor Ziegler has authored and edited several books as well as numerous articles in top academic journals. His most recent books include Civil Society and Politics in Central Asia, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015); The History of Russia, revised and expanded edition (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009); The Russian Far East: A Region at Risk (with Judith Thornton) (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002).