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Andrew Kennedy

Associate Professor and Head, Department of Policy and Governance

Qualifications

Ph.D. (Political Science) Harvard University; M.A. (Law and Diplomacy) Fletcher School, Tufts University; B.S. (Psychology) Duke University

Contact details
  • “China’s Bid for High-Tech Primacy,” National Security College, The Australian National University, April 2023.
  • “The Future of US-China Technology Competition: Part I,” National Security College, The Australian National University, February 2023.
  • “China’s Rise as a Technology Power,” National Security College, The Australian National University, May 2022.
  • “China’s Rise as a Techno-Power,” Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, June 2021.
  • “China and the Innovation Imperative,” International Conference on China and the World, Australian Centre on China in the World, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, December 2019.
  • “The Conflicted Superpower,” Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, March 2018.
  • “Superpower in Search of a Strategy: U.S. Collaboration with China and India in the Globalisation of Innovation,” Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, February 2017.
  • “Chasing the Frontier: The Challenge of Late Innovation in China and India,” Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, October 2016.
  • “Chasing the Frontier: The Challenge of Late Innovation in China and India,” Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, September 2016.
  • With Darren J. Lim. “The Innovation Imperative: Technology and Great Power Rivalry in the 21st Century,” Workshop on China: Wealth and Power, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Canberra, Australia, April 2016.
  • “Superpower without a Strategy: Explaining U.S. policy toward Chinese and Indian knowledge workers and students,” Workshop on Unpacking the –Economic-Security Nexus in Asia: New Concepts, questions and research approaches, ANU Research School of Asia and the Pacific, Canberra, Australia, October 2015.
  • “Inventing with the Enemy? Explaining U.S. Policy Toward Chinese and Indian Human Capital,” American Political Science Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, September 2015.
  • “Thinking about Interdependence and Power: China, India, and the Globalization of R&D,” Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, November 2013.
  • “Powerhouses or Pretenders? Assessing the Rise of China and India in Information Technology,” China for Public Servants (a course organized by the Australian Centre on China in the World for the Australian Government), Canberra, Australia, August 2013.
  • “The ‘Fragile Relationship’ in the Asian Century: Reasons for Optimism and Pessimism Regarding US-China Relations,” South Asia Diplomatic Training Program, Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, June 2013.
  • “To Rise or Not to Rise? The Search for Technology and Power in China and India,” given at Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania; Department of International Relations, Boston University; The Fletcher School, Tufts University; China and the World Program/South Asia Institute, Harvard University; China and the World Program, Princeton University; Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia; February 2013.
  • “China and the Free Rider Problem: Exploring the Case of Energy Security,” Centre for Asian Studies, Griffith University, November 2012.
  • “Techno-nationalism and Techno-globalism in the Rise of China and India,” Centre for the Study of Science and Society, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, February 2012.
  • “Techno-nationalism and Techno-globalism in the Rise of China and India,” Centre for Policy Studies, New Delhi, February 2012.
  • “Red Dragon, Green Energy: Techno-nationalism in China’s Approach to Renewable Energy,” Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Canberra, Australia, September 2011.
  • “China’s Search for Energy Security,” China for Public Servants (a course organized by the Australian Centre on China in the World for the Australian Government), Canberra, Australia, August 2011.
  • “Energy Security: Contemporary Challenges and the Case of China,” National Security College, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, August 2011.
  • “China’s Petroleum Predicament,” Rising China: Global Challenges and Opportunities, a conference organized by The Australian National University, July 2011.
    - “China’s New Energy Security Debate,” Foundation Seminar, The Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, May 2010.
  • “气候变化的国际合作:七个障碍” (“International Cooperation on Climate Change: Seven Obstacles”), Australian Center for China in the World and China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, Beijing Meeting, April 2010.
  • “Engaging China Anew: Energy Insecurities, Climate Change, and Sino-American Relations,” China and the World Workshop, Harvard University, April 2009.
  • “China’s New Energy Security Debate,” Director’s Seminar, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, April 2009.
  • “Energy Security and Sino-American Relations,” School of Public Policy and Management, Qinghua University, March 2009.
  • “India’s Nuclear Odyssey: Diplomatic Disenchantment, Leaky Umbrellas, and the Bomb,” ISA Annual Convention, New York, February 2009.
  • “China’s Rise in an Era of Climate Change: Beijing’s Two-level Predicament,” China and the World Program, Princeton University, December 2008.
  • “Idiosyncratic Audacity: Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, and China’s Adventure in Korea,” American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Boston, August 2008.
  • “The Origins of Audacity: National Efficacy Beliefs, International Structures, and the Curious Rises of China and India,” ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco, March 2008.
  • “An Impatient Ascent: How National Efficacy Beliefs Explain the Maoist Approach to China’s Rising Power,” China and the World Program, Princeton University, October 2007.
  • “National Efficacy Beliefs and Risk-Taking in Foreign Policy,” Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, October 2006.
  • “How Dire a Strait? The Taiwan Question in US-China Relations,” China Awareness Organization, Amherst College, April 2006.
  • “China’s Perceptions of US Intentions toward Taiwan,” Yale China Workshop, December 2005.
  • “毛泽东军事思想与核武器问题” (“Mao Zedong’s Military Thought and the Problem of Nuclear Weapons”), Institute for International Studies, Qinghua University, Beijing, June 2005.
  • “National Efficacy Beliefs and Foreign Policy: An Analytical Framework,” Harvard Political Psychology and Behavior Workshop, April 2005.
  • “What Next? The 2004 Presidential Election and the Future of US Foreign Policy in Asia,” Committee on Sino-European Relations, Beijing University, October 2004.
  • “Explaining US Hegemony in the Taiwan Strait: Entangled Ally or Post-Cold War Imperialist?,” ISA Annual Convention, Montreal, March 2004. (Paper accepted but not delivered due to travel conditions.)
  • “Integrating Allies: Explaining the American Commitment to Taiwan,” New England Association of Asian Studies Conference, Harvard University, October 2003.
  • “China’s Reaction to the War in Kosovo: Threat Perceptions and Emergent Strategies,” US Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, August 1999.

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