Rethinking the Relation Between Economics, Resources, Technology and National and International Security Seminar Series


Joshua Kurlantzick
Visiting Scholar, China Program
Carnegie Endowment



Mr. Kurlantzick is currently a visiting scholar in the Carnegie Endowment’s China Program. He is also a special correspondent for The New Republic and a senior correspondent for The American Prospect.  At Carnegie he is assessing China’s relationship with the developing world, including Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He will also explore how China uses its soft power—culture, investment, academia, foreign aid, public diplomacy— to influence other countries in the developing world. Additionally, Kurlantzick is currently a fellow at the USC School of Public Diplomacy.

Mr. Kurlantzick was previously foreign editor at The New Republic. Earlier, he covered international economics and trade for U.S. News and World Report. He also reported on Southeast Asia for The Economist as a correspondent based in Bangkok, Thailand. Kurlantzick's articles also have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, The American Prospect, Mother Jones, Current History, and The Washington Quarterly.

His areas of expertise include China and Southeast Asia.  He holds a B.A. degree from Haverford College.  Some of his other recent articles include:


China Buys the Soft Sell (The Washington Post, October 15, 2006)
Red Scare (The New Republic (online), October 9, 2006)
Manchurian Candidate (The New Republic (online), October 5, 2006)
Crude Awakening: The coming resource war (The New Republic (online), September 25, 2006)

Mr. Kurlantzick's new book Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World  will be published by Yale University Press in April, 2007.

 



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