地点：浙大紫金港校区蒙民伟楼357 (Mengminwei Building 357)
时间：2016年3月28日（周一）10:00-11:30 (Monday, 28 March)
主讲人: Dr. Ivan Willis Rasmussen, a visiting assistant professor at Hamilton College and a research fellow in the Belfer Center's International Security Program, USA
承办：浙江大学公共管理学院政治学系
主讲人简介：Dr. Ivan Willis Rasmussen is a visiting assistant professor at Hamilton College and a research fellow in the Belfer Center's International Security Program, and he received his Ph.D. from Tufts University's Fletcher School. Dr. Rasmussen focuses on Chinese (PRC) external relations, international negotiations, and U.S. foreign policy. Formerly a lecturer at Boston College and People's University (PRC), Dr. Rasmussen received an M.A. from the Fletcher School in 2009 and an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University in 2006. He was a Rosenthal Fellow for the U.S. Department of State, coordinated an international civic engagement program based in Zhuhai, China (PRC) sponsored by the Gates Foundation and Duke University, and has conducted research for the RAND Corporation. Dr. Rasmussen has received fellowships to support his research from a diversity of sources including Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, Tufts University, the Tobin Project, Harvard University's Program on Negotiation, and the Boren Fellowship. Mr. Rasmussen has sought, throughout his work, to bridge academia and the policy world with salient, inter-disciplinary analysis of international relations with a focus on East Asia.
讲座提要：China has been one of the pioneers of using limited alignments in its diplomacy towards Southeast Asia and beyond. However, most of the prevailing literature tends to focus on evaluating bilateral relations rather than assessing why and how Beijing deploys its partnership strategy as well as the opportunities and challenges of this alignment type in the minds of Chinese policymakers. This presentation aims to fill this gap by exploring the dynamics of Chinese strategic partnerships in Southeast Asia from the hosting of the 2008 Beijing Olympics up to 2014. Using a mixture of government documents and textual analysis in English and Chinese, this paper argues that the precise trajectory of Chinese strategic partnerships in Southeast Asia is determined not merely by material interests as is traditionally argued, but also the symbolism of image maintenance at the regional level and, to a lesser and varying degree, the domestic political context in China. After explaining how "strategic partnerships" fit into the spectrum of Chinese foreign relations (which range from "friendly partnership of cooperation" to "all weather strategic partnership of cooperation"), the paper delves into the various factors determining a strategic partnership and then applies it to the cases of Chinese partnerships with individual countries in Southeast Asia and ASEAN as a bloc.