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SAIS Global Dialogue: Eurasia’s Transformation and its Global Implications

On September 23, Dr. Kent Calder, joint interim Dean Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies | SAIS and Director of Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies led a dialogue on Eurasia’s transformation and its global implications with former SAIS Dean Vali Nasr, American Co-Director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center Adam Webb, Director of The Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe Michael G. Plummer, and SAIS Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs Jess Fanzo.

The panelists discussed the shifting dynamics in Eurasia as a region and its implication for U.S. foreign policy. While Professor Webb emphasized the critical need for Washington to return to the CPTPP to bolster its waning trade profile in the Asia-Pacific region, Professor Fanzo raised climate change and food security as potential revenues for constructive cooperation between the United States and China. The panelists also commented on the Biden administration’s renewed focus on East Asia and how that could potentially weaken the U.S. presence in other regions in the world, undercutting the possibilities of a comprehensive foreign policy agenda.