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On Thursday, January 18, 2001, Kanti Prasad Bajpai, Associate Professor of Disarmament Studies at the Centre for International Politics, Organization and disarmament at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and currently Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institute, spoke on "Nuclear Weapons, Grand Strategy, and Political Ideologies in India." The talk was held in the John Hope Franklin Center Conference Room (#240) at 7:30 pm. The event was cosponsored by the Triangle Institute for Security Studies.
Kanti Bajpai (Ph. D. University of Illinois) is Visiting Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings and Associate Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. He has published numerous works, including "South Asia After the Cold War: International Perspectives," co-editor (Westview Publications, 1993) and "Engaged Democracies: India-U.S. Relations in the 21st Century," and is currently writing two books: one on nuclear weapons and India's security and another on India's grand strategy from 1947-1997.
On Thursday, February 1, 2001, Sidney Rittenberg offered his "Thoughts on US-China Relations over the Next Decade," at 4:30 pm in the Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Duke University.
Mr. Sidney Rittenberg was the only American citizen to be accepted into the Chinese Communist Party, remaining a member until the Cultural Revolution, at which time he was imprisoned for sixteen years. Since then, Mr. Rittenberg has been a professor of history and Asian Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and is currently a Visiting Professor at Pacific Lutheran University. He and his wife Yulin live in Washington State and consult American corporations doing business in China. His most recent book The Man Who Stayed Behind was published in 1993.
On March 2 and 3, 2001, the conference on "Rise of China: Security Implications" was held at the Sheraton, Chapel Hill. To find out more about this conference click on "Conferences and Symposiums" above.
On October 5, 2001, Richard Bush, Chairman of the Board and Managing Director of the American Institute in Taiwan, spoke on "The US-China-Taiwan Triangle." The talk was given in the Sanford Institute for Public Policy.