CIAS Lecture by Prof. Yan Xuetong

Date: 19 April (Friday) 2024, 10.00-11.30 

Venue: Corvinus University, Building C, Lecture Hall V-VI. 

Organizer: Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre for Contemporary Asia Studies  

More about moral realism and counter-globalization:  

International relation theory of moral realism attributes international changes at system level to leadership of major powers. International leadership plays more significant role in shaping global order than political institutions. The current transition from globalization to counter-globalization is resulted from the decline of liberal leadership. At present, populist leadership is prevailing among major powers, thus, there is little chance for the world to witness the emergence of a global leadership, no matter based on a single power or a collective body, for re-globalization in the coming decade. To deepen our understanding about international relations, international relation students need to do more research on leadership in the aspects of both its influence and formation. 

Introducing our guest lecturer: 

YAN Xuetong is a distinguished professor at Tsinghua University and a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Science. He is serving as the Dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University and the Secretary General of the World Peace Forum. He obtained a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992 and was named one of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals by the American journal Foreign Policy in 2008. He is the founder of IR moral realism and the only Chinese political scientist listed in the Most Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier during 2014–2019.