Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften

This lecture is part of this spring term's BCCN Lecture Series: China in the Global Political Economy.

Abstract: 

China’s position within the global political order and its relationship with the liberal international order has evolved drastically in the past decades. From China’s going global, the internationalization of Chinese multinational corporations and ever-growing economic integration – globally and with the West - to the present geopolitical and geoeconomic turn. National security concerns have increasingly shaped the relations between the West and China, pivoting on the intensifying tech rivalry—now a central axis of strategic competition—in particular between the US and China. This leads us to examine the geopolitics behind Sino-Western tech decoupling, the implications for Europe and the contours of a more complex, fragmented form of reglobalization.

Bio: 

Nana de Graaff is a Professor of Global Politics and Networks at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her main research interests are within International Relations, International Political Economy and Elite Studies. De Graaff is Chair of the China in Europe Research Network (CHERN), a Europe-wide network aimed at pooling, exchanging, disseminating and generating research on Chinese socio-economic engagements with Europe. She is leading  ReGlobe at VU Amsterdam and is the principal investigator of a Vidi-financed project on The Geopolitics of Europe-China Tech Decoupling, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

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