EAP presents: Margaret Hermann

Toward Understanding the New Leadership in China: A Conversation

Margaret Hermann, Erik French and Elisabeth IJmker

During the past year, there has been a change in leadership in the People’s Republic of China. What are these new leaders like and what are the implications of their beliefs about politics, their personalities, and their experiences for how they will lead China? Margaret Hermann, Erik French, and Elisabeth IJmker will lead a conversation presenting data on President Xi Jinpingand Premier Li Keqiangbased on their backgrounds and analysis of their interactions with other leaders, the media, and their speeches. We hope you will join us.

Margaret (Peg) Hermann, Cramer Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Moynihan Institute at Syracuse University, does research that on understanding how the personalities of political leaders shape what they do. Erik French, Ph.D. candidate in political science, is studying the effects of coercive diplomacy and the use of reassurance on Chinese policy. Elisabeth IJmker is in Maxwell’s Masters of International Relations Program and a participant in the School’s Transatlantic Dual Degree Program in International Security and Development Policy.

Refreshments will be provided.

Sponsored by the East Asia Program at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs