Speaker: Dr. Tim Niblock and Dr. Yves Tiberghien

Title:  China in Global Governance

Moderator: Xie Lei,  Professor,  Shandong University.

Host:  Institute of Governance and School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University.

Date and place: July 8th - July 13th , Zhensheng Courtyard W206.

Bio of Speaker:

Dr. Tim Niblock is Emeritus Professor of Middle East Politics, University of Exeter, United Kingdom. From 1999 to 2008, he was Professor of Arab Gulf Studies, University of Exeter. He also served as Director of the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies at Exeter (1999-2005). Before that, he was Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Director of the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Durham (1993-99). His research interests include the political economy of Arab and Islamic states, with specific attention on the social and political effects of economic liberalization; and the role of Islam in the role of religion in state-building and state-resisting, with particular reference to the Middle East. His initial research and publications on the Gulf and Asia initially focused on the Gulf and China but more recently has encompassed Gulf relations with Asia as a whole. Two articles on this topic have already been published: “China’s Growing Involvement in the Gulf”, and “China’s Intensifying Relationship with Saudi Arabia” (with Norafidah Ismail), in Shen, S, and Blanchard, J-M, Multidimensional Diplomacy of Contemporary China (New York: Lexington Books, 2010).

Dr. Yves Tiberghien comes from Department of Political Science in UBC. He is Canada Associate Professor, and he also is member of the Managing Committee, Center for Chinese Research (CCR) Faculty Associate, Centre for Japanese Research (CJR) Faculty Associate, Institute of European Studies. (IES) Faculty Associate, Liu Centre for the Study of Global Issues Faculty Associate and Early Career Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS) Research Associate.

His Long-Term Analysis are as following : Global Challenges, the Great Rebalancing of Power, and Global Governance • Domestic Political Positions toward the G20 process and global economic governance • Impact of globalization on domestic politics (policy decisions, structural reforms, democratic governance) • Japanese domestic politics and Japanese political economy • China and global governance, China and globalization (interactions with global political economy) • The East Asian miracle and the East Asian crisis (focus on Korea) • European political economy (EU level, France and Germany)

Content :

The programme investigates challenges that China is faced with in its fast-changing social and political developments. Faced with a changing world, the country has shown vulnerability in responding to environmental risks and adapting to social changes that rapid urbanization has brought with. The programme combines theoretical discussions as well as policy developments. Students have the opportunities to attend excellent lectures while conducting problem-based project activities.