War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe

Streaming video requires RealPlayer to view.The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.Victoria Tin-bor Hui is Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Notre Dame. She is author of "War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge, 2005), winner of the Mershon Center's Edgar S. Furniss Book Award for an author whose first book makes an exceptional contribution to the study of national and international security. Hui will deliver a lecture based on her book, which demonstrates that from 656-221 B.C., China's government consisted of a system of sovereign territorial states similar to those in early modern Europe. This finding runs counter to the common belief that the roots of liberal democracy are unique to European civilization and alien to non-Western cultures.Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security StudiesEvent webpage, streaming video, photo

Charles Horner, Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context

Dans Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate, Charles Horner aborde le thème devenu incontournable de la politique chinoise d’« émergence paisible ». Si les ouvrages portant un titre similaire s’intéressent généralement aux implications militaires et économiques de l’essor chinois dans les pays occidentaux, Horner analyse en revanche ce que l’émergence de la Chine signifie pour les Chinois. Il étudie ainsi comment « la Chine cherche à rassembler une série d’enseignements tirés de son passé et qu..

Charles Horner, Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context

Dans Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate, Charles Horner aborde le thème devenu incontournable de la politique chinoise d’« émergence paisible ». Si les ouvrages portant un titre similaire s’intéressent généralement aux implications militaires et économiques de l’essor chinois dans les pays occidentaux, Horner analyse en revanche ce que l’émergence de la Chine signifie pour les Chinois. Il étudie ainsi comment « la Chine cherche à rassembler une série d’enseignements tirés de son passé et qu..

Charles Horner, Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate : Memories of Empire in a New Global Context

Tin-Bor Hui Victoria. Charles Horner, Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate : Memories of Empire in a New Global Context. In: Perspectives chinoises, n°112, 2010. pp. 151-153

Toward a Dynamic Theory of International Politics: Insights from Comparing Ancient China and Early Modern Europe

This article examines why international relations theories presume checks and balances but universal domination triumphed in ancient China. I argue that one should not presume the European experience as the norm and treat ancient China as a deviant case. I propose a dynamic theory of international politics that views international competition as processes of strategic interaction and that allows for alternative trajectories and endogenous transformation. Realist theories of international politics tend to focus on structural mechanisms and overlook agential strategies. At the same time, these theories focus on causal mechanisms that check attempts at domination and overlook mechanisms that facilitate domination. It is true that attempts at domination are checked by the mechanisms of balance of power and rising costs of expansion. But domination-seekers may overcome such obstacles by pursuing divide-and-conquer strategies, ruthless tactics, and self-strengthening reforms. From this strategic-interactive perspective, universal domination is no less possible than the balance of power.I would like to express my gratitude to Jack Snyder, Ira Katznelson, Charles Tilly, Thomas Bernstein, Michael Davis, and David Kang for their extensive comments on multiple drafts. I also want to thank Fiona Adamson, Bear Braumoeller, E. Bruce Brooks, Lars-Erik Cederman, Thomas Christensen, Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, Charles Cogan, Timothy Crawford, Julian Franklin, Taylor Fravel, Robert Goodin, Yoav Gortzak, A. Iain Johnston, Edward Kolodziej, Andrew Kydd, Mark Lewis, Daniel Nexon, Richard Rosecrance, Stephen Rosen, Peter Rutland, Mark Sheetz, Erik Voeten, R. Harrison Wagner, R. Bin Wong, and the editor-in-chief and two anonymous reviewers of International Organization for their thoughtful and critical comments. In addition, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University sponsored various phases of this project.

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Historical Memory in (Post)colonial Societies: Comparative Perspective on Resilience and Narrative Justice

The main goal of the research project is to study patterns of deconstruction of imperial myths, as well as their influence on civic culture in postcolonial societies. An analysis of the Russian-Ukrainian war in postcolonial terms allows us to focus on studying resistance and deconstruction of imperial historical myths in former colonies. Comparative perspective is an important aspect of this research project because it allows us to determine what is common and what is peculiar in post-colonial resistance. Putin’s Russia enjoys a “no limits” partnership with Xi Jinping’s China that successfully conquered Xinjiang and Tibet, recolonized Hong Kong, with further plans to “reunite” Taiwan. China’s peripheries provide a spectrum of what could befall Ukraine if Putin’s attempt at recolonization is not beaten back. In Hong Kong, with no army, the people have only a distinctive identity and language to hold on to. In Tibet and Xinjiang where colonization has lasted for decades, collective and historical memory can be openly discussed only among exiles. For Taiwan, the war in Ukraine provides a living model of how to resist an increasingly likely invasion both militarily and culturally. The research involves two parts. The first part is a survey to test the following hypotheses. The second part is a workshop to share collective narratives and memories