Graham Allison and Samantha Power: The US, China, and Thucydides’s Trap

Name: Graham Allison and Samantha Power: The US, China, and Thucydides’s Trap
Start: 2017-05-24T17:00:00-0400
End: 2017-05-24T18:00:00-0400

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Is China serious about replacing the US as the dominant power in Asia for the foreseeable future? Could Americans accept becoming No. 2? Is war between Washington and Beijing inevitable?

Date: Wed, May 24, 2017 Time: 05:00pm - 06:00pm Location: The First Parish in Cambridge

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, a Belfer Center alumna, discusses her career with Harvard Kennedy School students in a session moderated by Belfer Center Director Graham Allison.

Is China serious about replacing the US as the dominant power in Asia for the foreseeable future? Could Americans accept becoming No. 2? Is war between Washington and Beijing inevitable?

Please join Samantha Power and Graham Allison for an exclusive conversation about these and other timely questions to mark the launch of his new book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

Reception, sales, and signing will follow.

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