A New Cold War? America, China, and Russia after the Ukraine War

Join us at the Dole Institute to hear Professors Ross and Zhang discuss the future of geopolitics after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Is a long-term alignment between Russia and China now inevitable? Is the U.S.-dominated liberal international order giving away to a U.S.-China bipolar order? Should the U.S. work with allies to contain China in the same way it has been doing with sanctions on Russia? What are Ukraine’s lessons for Taiwan?

Robert S. Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Associate, John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Security Studies, Peking University, a Fulbright Professor at the Chinese Foreign Affairs College, and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of International Strategic Studies, Qinghua University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations.

Jack Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas and Director of KU’s Trade War Lab. Dr. Zhang has been the recipient of various grants and awards, including a Fulbright U.S. Student Grant, the Minerva Research Initiative DECUR Partnership, the Smith Richardson Foundation World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship, and the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Herb York Dissertation Fellowship.

The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics is dedicated to promoting political and civic participation as well as civil discourse in a bipartisan, philosophically balanced manner. It is located on KU’s West Campus and houses the Dole Archive and Special Collections. Through its robust public programming, congressional archive, and museum, the Dole Institute strives to celebrate public service and the legacies of US Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole.

This program is presented in partnership with the KU’s Department of Political Science and the Center for Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES). Robert Ross is the KU Political Science Ketzel Series Speaker in October.