Bureaucracies at War: China’s Decision-Making in Comparative Perspective

Speaker: Tyler Jost, Watson Institute Assistant Professor of China Studies, Assistant Professor of Political Science, International and Public Affairs, Brown University

Moderator: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

When are China’s leaders able to extract quality information from their diplomatic, defense and intelligence bureaucracies during international crises? Tyler Jost studies how China’s leaders deal with the trade-off between institutional designs that offer political security and those that yield quality information. To illustrate this, he uses the historical cases of the 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict and the 1999 India-Pakistan Kargil War.

This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.

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