Taiwan’s Struggle to Internationalize Its Higher Education System News In the latest edition of Batten Expert Chats, Syaru Shirley Lin, Compton Visiting Professor at the Miller Center, and Harry Harding, founding dean of the Batten School and professor of public policy, discussed why Taiwan finds it difficult to send scholars abroad, welcome foreign students and faculty, and promote the use of English.
Batten Expert Chats: “Challenges to the Internationalization of Higher Education: The Case of Taiwan” with Harry Harding and Syaru Shirley Lin Event When it comes to higher education, how can countries build stronger international relationships? And what does it mean to do so during a global pandemic? Join the conversation on Zoom.
Are the U.S. and China Headed Toward a New Cold War? News For the latest edition of Batten Expert Chats, Harry Harding mapped the deteriorating relationship between two of the world’s greatest superpowers and offered his predictions for a Cold War “2.0.”
Batten Expert Chats:" Are the U.S. and China Headed Toward a New Cold War?" with Harry Harding Event Harry Harding, professor of public policy and founding dean of the Batten School, will join us for the next edition of Batten’s Expert Chat series. His talk and the Q&A session to follow will cover relations between the U.S. and China. What efforts did the two countries make to build a stable relationship, and why did they fail? What happens next?
U.S.-China relations in a turbulent time: Can rivals cooperate? Event Join the Miller Center and Professor of Public Policy and Batten's founding dean, Harry Harding, for a virtual edition of the Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium on American Diplomacy as we take an in-depth look at U.S.–Chinese relations during a time of global upheaval.
A View from the United States Research Since early June, Hong Kong has been experiencing one of the most serious political crises in its history, arguably the worst since the Maoist-inspired demonstrations against British colonial rule in 1967. The city has been wracked by near-continuous mass protests, some peaceful, some violent.
Batten Professor Harry Harding Sheds Light on Protests in Hong Kong News UVA Today spoke with Batten professor Harry Harding on Friday to learn more about what is happening in Hong Kong and what it means for China and the U.S.
Has U.S. China Policy Failed? Research The United States is immersed in its most intense China policy debate in decades, which will almost certainly get more heated and public in 2016. For a variety of reasons, reviewed here, dissatisfaction with China’s domestic and international evolution has become widespread as has pessimism about the future of U.S.–China relations, leading to a growing debate over three broad ways to revise U.S. policy.
The Halting Advance of Pluralism Research Reprinted in Andrew J. Nathan and Marc F. Plattner (eds.), Will China Democratize? (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), pp. 44-50.
American Visions of the Future of U.S.-China Relations: Competition, Cooperation, and Conflict Research
How the Past Shapes the Present: Five Ways in Which History Affects China’s Contemporary Foreign Relations Research