Foreign Policy - General: Debate - 'The Beijing Consensus: How China's Authoritarian Model Will Impact the 21st Century' (audio transcript available - click here)
The May Debate - Tuesday 18th May 2010
Dr Stefan Halper, Michael Ancram and Nigel Inkster
Dr. Stefan Halper is a Senior Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University and a Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He directs the Donner Atlantic Studies Programme at the Centre of International Studies and lectures on latter 20th century US foreign policy, China, and contemporary international security issues. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Nixon Center in Washington DC. He has served four American Presidents in the White House and the Department of State. Dr. Halper was Executive Editor and host of Worldwise, a nationally televised programme on foreign and national security affairs from 1996-2000 and This Week From Washington, a national radio programme aired from 1985-2001. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times amongst others. His books include America Alone: The Neo-conservatives and the Global Order (co-authored) published by Cambridge University Press in 2004 and The Silence of the Rational Center: Why US Foreign Policy is Failing (co-authored), published by Basic Books in 2007. His most recent book, The Beijing Consensus: How China’s Authoritarian Model Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century, has just been published by Basic Books.
Nigel Inkster CMG is the Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk at the International Institute of Strategic Studies, where he is responsible for the analysis of international political risk and development of programmes on counter terrorism, international crime, proliferation of CBRN, cross-border conflict and other transnational/global issues. Nigel is also responsible for the IISS Armed Conflict Database. He joined IISS in March 2007. Prior to that, he served in the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from 1975 to 2006. He was posted in Asia, Latin America and Europe and worked extensively on transnational issues. He spent seven years on the Board of SIS, the last two as Assistant Chief and Director for Operations and Intelligence. He is a Chinese speaker and graduated in Oriental Studies from St John’s College, Oxford.
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