Ketian Vivian Zhang
@vivianchang36.bsky.social
Associate Professor of International Security @GMU Schar School. Faculty director of IRTF. Coercion, security & IPE, Chinese foreign policy & domestic politics.
So the paperback of my first book is finally coming out this July. It is much more affordable now at $35 (same with the electronic version). You can pre-order it here @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
China's Gambit | International relations and international organisations
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March 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So the paperback of my first book is finally coming out this July. It is much more affordable now at $35 (same with the electronic version). You can pre-order it here @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
If you are at ISA, please stop by our roundtable where wonderful scholars such as Xiaoyu Pu, Tyler Jost, Abe Newman, Dan Drezner, and Gloria Xiong will discuss my book, China's Gambit. Time is this Sunday at 4pm. Location is Stevens Salon A-5, Chicago Hilton.
March 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If you are at ISA, please stop by our roundtable where wonderful scholars such as Xiaoyu Pu, Tyler Jost, Abe Newman, Dan Drezner, and Gloria Xiong will discuss my book, China's Gambit. Time is this Sunday at 4pm. Location is Stevens Salon A-5, Chicago Hilton.
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Our second fellowship cohort webinar series concludes later today with this important, conversation featuring Naima Green-Riley and Rosie Levine, moderated by Amy Gadsden. Please join us on the live zoom at 4 pm or catch the YouTube recording anytime at www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYW_...
We are delighted to publish working papers by the Research, Education, and Academic Freedom team of this year's fellowship cohort: global.upenn.edu/future-of-us.... Please join us for a live webinar featuring these authors TODAY from 4-5 pm ET, registration link at the QR code on the poster below:
February 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Our second fellowship cohort webinar series concludes later today with this important, conversation featuring Naima Green-Riley and Rosie Levine, moderated by Amy Gadsden. Please join us on the live zoom at 4 pm or catch the YouTube recording anytime at www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYW_...
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One week to go before the application deadline of this Friday, February 28! Please circulate this call widely to relevant potential applicants, to help us benefit from as strong and diverse an applicant pool as possible.
We are thrilled to issue the call for applications (global.upenn.edu/future-of-us...) for our third fellowship cohort, made possible by generous support from @carnegiecorp.bsky.social and the Henry Luce Foundation. Applications are due February 28.
February 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
One week to go before the application deadline of this Friday, February 28! Please circulate this call widely to relevant potential applicants, to help us benefit from as strong and diverse an applicant pool as possible.
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We are delighted to publish working papers by the National Security team of this year's fellowship cohort, now available at global.upenn.edu/future-of-us.... Please join us for a live webinar featuring these authors TODAY from 6-7 pm ET, registration link at the QR code on the poster below:
February 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
We are delighted to publish working papers by the National Security team of this year's fellowship cohort, now available at global.upenn.edu/future-of-us.... Please join us for a live webinar featuring these authors TODAY from 6-7 pm ET, registration link at the QR code on the poster below:
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"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office."
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AP statement on Oval Office access | The Associated Press
The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs
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February 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office."
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Happy to share the H-Diplo roundtable review of my first book. I appreciate the stimulating conversations with Zeno Leoni, Isaac B. Kardon, Gloria Xiong, Xiaoyu Pu, and Yong Deng. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 16-24 on Zhang, _China’s Gambit_ | H-Net
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies ForumRoundtable Review 16-24Ketian Zhang. China’s Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion. Cambridge University Press, 2024. ISBN: 978-1009423786.
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February 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Happy to share the H-Diplo roundtable review of my first book. I appreciate the stimulating conversations with Zeno Leoni, Isaac B. Kardon, Gloria Xiong, Xiaoyu Pu, and Yong Deng. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
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Some thinking here w/ @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social based on excellent @wired.com reporting, among others: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
February 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Some thinking here w/ @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social based on excellent @wired.com reporting, among others: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The cognitive dissonance of arriving in Taiwan as an American and seeing human rights celebrated front and center, while my actual home (and Taiwan’s main ally) is doing what it can to scrub human rights and equality from our values.
February 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
The cognitive dissonance of arriving in Taiwan as an American and seeing human rights celebrated front and center, while my actual home (and Taiwan’s main ally) is doing what it can to scrub human rights and equality from our values.
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⏰ STARTING SOON | 10:00 am PT
What is happening in Syria? Join us this morning to hear @4bassam.bsky.social in conversation with @wazirelkif.bsky.social about the road to, dynamics, and consequences of Syria's transition.
DETAILS & ZOOM: cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/events/syria...
What is happening in Syria? Join us this morning to hear @4bassam.bsky.social in conversation with @wazirelkif.bsky.social about the road to, dynamics, and consequences of Syria's transition.
DETAILS & ZOOM: cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/events/syria...
January 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
⏰ STARTING SOON | 10:00 am PT
What is happening in Syria? Join us this morning to hear @4bassam.bsky.social in conversation with @wazirelkif.bsky.social about the road to, dynamics, and consequences of Syria's transition.
DETAILS & ZOOM: cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/events/syria...
What is happening in Syria? Join us this morning to hear @4bassam.bsky.social in conversation with @wazirelkif.bsky.social about the road to, dynamics, and consequences of Syria's transition.
DETAILS & ZOOM: cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/events/syria...
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As a visiting scholar at the Havens-Wright Center for Social Justice, next week I’ll be giving a virtual lecture critiquing the contradictions at the heart of the “national interest”--free to register! havenswrightcenter.wisc.edu/event/jackson/
What Good is the National Interest? Rethinking the Roots of Peace, Democracy, and War
Astra Taylor, writer & activist
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January 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
As a visiting scholar at the Havens-Wright Center for Social Justice, next week I’ll be giving a virtual lecture critiquing the contradictions at the heart of the “national interest”--free to register! havenswrightcenter.wisc.edu/event/jackson/
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We are thrilled to issue the call for applications (global.upenn.edu/future-of-us...) for our third fellowship cohort, made possible by generous support from @carnegiecorp.bsky.social and the Henry Luce Foundation. Applications are due February 28.
January 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We are thrilled to issue the call for applications (global.upenn.edu/future-of-us...) for our third fellowship cohort, made possible by generous support from @carnegiecorp.bsky.social and the Henry Luce Foundation. Applications are due February 28.
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Some news: A few hours after I filed the draft to this story, CNN laid me off.
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
Trump’s executive order took aim at “environmental justice” — eliminating positions and assessing spending on projects, including those aimed at poor, rural communities.
I talked to former WH environmental justice advisers to the Biden administration on what this means. www.cnn.com/2025/01/26/c...
I talked to former WH environmental justice advisers to the Biden administration on what this means. www.cnn.com/2025/01/26/c...
Trump’s gutting of federal DEI programs will hit rural poor communities | CNN
Just hours after his swearing-in this week, President Donald Trump signed action to end “radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencing.” Communities across the country, including in po...
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January 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Some news: A few hours after I filed the draft to this story, CNN laid me off.
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
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Here is video of the terrific discussion featuring our 2nd fellowship cohort’s Climate & Environment team @michaeldavidson.bsky.social, @joannalewis.bsky.social, @katelogan.bsky.social, presenting their working papers, expertly moderated by @greenlawchina.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNZT...
January 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Here is video of the terrific discussion featuring our 2nd fellowship cohort’s Climate & Environment team @michaeldavidson.bsky.social, @joannalewis.bsky.social, @katelogan.bsky.social, presenting their working papers, expertly moderated by @greenlawchina.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNZT...
15 years ago I arrived in this country for college. A LOT has changed since then.
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
January 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
15 years ago I arrived in this country for college. A LOT has changed since then.
Sharing my new book on China's coercion, which just came out with Cambridge U Press. It argues that China uses coercion to "kill the chicken to scare the monkey" but is also constrained by economic and geo costs. Econ interdependence constrains & enables China: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
December 12, 2023 at 1:53 PM
Sharing my new book on China's coercion, which just came out with Cambridge U Press. It argues that China uses coercion to "kill the chicken to scare the monkey" but is also constrained by economic and geo costs. Econ interdependence constrains & enables China: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...