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Ray and Jim welcome Colonel Rich Butler and Dr. Sheena Greitens to help us understand the readiness of China's military for combat operations, and what that means for global security. They explain the contingencies the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is preparing for, from a cross-strait invasion of Taiwan to a South China Sea confrontation, and what lessons the PLA has learned from Russia's conflict with Ukraine.Colonel Butler and Dr. Greitens also discuss how China uses the PLA and non-traditional forces like the People's Armed Police as coercive tools against its neighbors. They also weigh the sheer weight of China's security forces against its blind spots—political control, corruption and inexperience in combat operations. They also consider China's ongoing political and military corruption purges—and their impact on combat readiness.They explain how China prioritizes the conquest of Taiwan for achieving its “national rejuvenation”, and what role coercion plays in achieving those goals, even while planning for the potential of a protracted conflict against the U.S. and implementing non-traditional security programs across the Indo-Pacific region.Colonel Butler and Dr. Greitens unpack the problems the PLA faces in a cross-strait invasion scenario, and what problems a military blockade of the island might present. They talk through the military and economic challenges Taiwan faces, both in terms of food and energy security.

Ray and Jim welcome Colonel Rich Butler and Dr. Sheena Greitens to help us understand the readiness of China's military for combat operations, and what that means for global security. They explain the contingencies the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is preparing for, from a cross-strait invasion of Taiwan to a South China Sea confrontation, and what lessons the PLA has learned from Russia's conflict with Ukraine.Colonel Butler and Dr. Greitens also discuss how China uses the PLA and non-traditional forces like the People's Armed Police as coercive tools against its neighbors. They also weigh the sheer weight of China's security forces against its blind spots—political control, corruption and inexperience in combat operations. They also consider China's ongoing political and military corruption purges—and their impact on combat readiness.They explain how China prioritizes the conquest of Taiwan for achieving its “national rejuvenation”, and what role coercion plays in achieving those goals, even while planning for the potential of a protracted conflict against the U.S. and implementing non-traditional security programs across the Indo-Pacific region.Colonel Butler and Dr. Greitens unpack the problems the PLA faces in a cross-strait invasion scenario, and what problems a military blockade of the island might present. They talk through the military and economic challenges Taiwan faces, both in terms of food and energy security.

Aaron O'Connell, the director of research at the Clements Center for National Security, moderated a panel with Jim Goldgeier, a visiting scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation; Deborah Pearlstein, co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy; Jeremi Suri, the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at UT Austin; and Sheena Greitens, the founding director of the Asia Policy Program at the University of Texas at Austin. The conversation focused on the classification process, scholarship, the need for more transparency, and why it matters for the writing of history. This was the first of a three panels exploring the topic of classification and democracy.  

On this episode of Horns of Dilemma, Sheena Greitens moderated a panel discussion about the Russo-Ukrainian war and broader challenges to European security. The conversation featured Gen. Vince Brooks, U.S. Army ( Ret.), former Commander, United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command/United States Forces Korea; Susan Colbourn, associate director of the Program in American Grand Strategy, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University; Simon Miles, assistant professor, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University; and Mark Pomar, Senior National Security Fellow, Clements Center for National Security. The group discussed the challenges the Ukrainian military faces, the risks of nuclear escalation, and the longer-term implications of the war for regional and global security.

Sheena Greitens from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT joins AEI's Kori Schake, Georgetown's Rosa Brooks, and host, David Rothkopf, to pull back the curtain on recent developments in Chinese policy and assess where the US-China relationship is headed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sheena Greitens from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT joins AEI's Kori Schake, Georgetown's Rosa Brooks, and host, David Rothkopf, to pull back the curtain on recent developments in Chinese policy and assess where the US-China relationship is headed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's epsidode of Horns of a Dilemma, Sheena Greitens, head of the Asia Policy Program at the University of Texas, Austin, joins author Nury Turkel to discuss Turkel's book, No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs. Turkel, who was born in a re-education camp during China's culturual revolution, uses his own experiences, as well as interviews with survivors of the camps in western China to tell the story of China's campaign against the Uyghur people. The picture that emerges in his conversation with Greitens is urgent, powerful, and chilling.  This event was recorded at the University of Texas, Austin, and was co-sponsored by the Clements Center and the Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center.

Hour 3: Marc and Todd Piro from Fox & Friends chat about late nite sports; Ron McCain from the Range is on for 2A Tuesday; and Sheena Greitens responds to former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens denials of child and domestic abuse allegations.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist on various matters being decided on local voters including redistricting, new rules for the County Executive, plus more. Also, Sheena Greitens sends a shot across the bow of ex-husband, Eric Greitens. Follow Antonio for more: https://twitter.com/AntonioFrench

Hosts: Adam Sommer, Rachel Parker, Sean DillerTrue Or False : The Missouri Senate primary just had a snow globe flip moment - Greitens assault/Sheena Greitns - and Trump's statement of “not an endorsement” of Billy LongGreitens on “War Room” - Rachel Really troubling behaviorHas denied assault allegations https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/exclusive-eric-greitens-addresses-ex-wifes-abuse-allegations/Trump's thing for Billy Long https://www.kmbc.com/article/missouri-senate-candidate-billy-long-hopes-trumps-support-will-shake-up-gop-race/39530780#Sean - how does this race impact national picture if it slides into the truly competitive column? 538 polling https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/missouri/Real Clear politics pollinghttps://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/Missouri.htmlYeah…No… : The confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, and specifically this GIF from the national GOP on twitter: https://twitter.com/gop/status/1506282786843410432?s=21Hawley's obsession with porn and sexhttps://theintercept.com/2022/03/23/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-confirmation-child-predators/Ted Cruz searching his own name on twitter after his question about racist babiesMarsha Blackburn Defining a Woman - I personally defer to the Billy Joel song “She's Always A Woman to Me”Cory Booker nice moment cuts throughhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/24/cory-booker-doesnt-let-gop-ugliness-tar-ketanji-brown-jacksons-historic-moment/Amazing the difference of how Justice Barrett was questioned as a Mother but Judge Jackson was questioned as a black womanSilver lining - Manchin signals support for confirmation so should be a go538 - Public opinion is in favor of confirmationhttps://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-broadly-want-the-senate-to-confirm-ketanji-brown-jackson-to-the-supreme-court/Buy or Sell : John Fetterman, Lt. Gov. of Pennsylvania - is the absolute model Heartland POD candidate He is doing well in the race - https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/599666-how-fetterman-is-pulling-away-in-pennsylvaniaAs LT. Gov he has been working on wrongful convictionsSide note: great website https://johnfetterman.com/Joined Big Brothers at age 23, winds up joining Americorp, getting his GED and eventual his Masters in public policy from Harvard, started a GED program, then became mayor of his town for 13 years before, officiated one of the first same sex marriages in the state, and opposed a new highway going through his town on grounds of environmental racismPro legalization of MJ and not at all shy about it “the idea that we have allowed a plant to be illegal in this country is absurd”The Big One - Are we in a cold civil war?We have talked about project blitz - but one thing we have not really touched on is the way it's being used to pass what amount to federal nullification lawsState's rights arguments are flying aroundThe distinction of local control v. states rightsVoting Rights restrictions Anti-trans rights billsGun laws like SAPA in MissouriState laws to contradict federal laws in trade, forien policy, just about any category you can imagine. Attacks on schools that teach based largely on the principles of federalism - even through the white washing of the civil war and the South's war effort based largely on Slavery as the motivator doesn't do justice to the brutality of slavery it DOES cheer on a President that suspended habeas corpus and intended to use federal power to take property and redistribute it https://heartlandpod.com/Twitter: @TheHeartlandPOD

Hosts: Adam Sommer, Rachel Parker, Sean DillerTrue Or False : The Missouri Senate primary just had a snow globe flip moment - Greitens assault/Sheena Greitns - and Trump's statement of “not an endorsement” of Billy LongGreitens on “War Room” - Rachel Really troubling behaviorHas denied assault allegations https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/exclusive-eric-greitens-addresses-ex-wifes-abuse-allegations/Trump's thing for Billy Long https://www.kmbc.com/article/missouri-senate-candidate-billy-long-hopes-trumps-support-will-shake-up-gop-race/39530780#Sean - how does this race impact national picture if it slides into the truly competitive column? 538 polling https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/missouri/Real Clear politics pollinghttps://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/Missouri.htmlYeah…No… : The confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, and specifically this GIF from the national GOP on twitter: https://twitter.com/gop/status/1506282786843410432?s=21Hawley's obsession with porn and sexhttps://theintercept.com/2022/03/23/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-confirmation-child-predators/Ted Cruz searching his own name on twitter after his question about racist babiesMarsha Blackburn Defining a Woman - I personally defer to the Billy Joel song “She's Always A Woman to Me”Cory Booker nice moment cuts throughhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/24/cory-booker-doesnt-let-gop-ugliness-tar-ketanji-brown-jacksons-historic-moment/Amazing the difference of how Justice Barrett was questioned as a Mother but Judge Jackson was questioned as a black womanSilver lining - Manchin signals support for confirmation so should be a go538 - Public opinion is in favor of confirmationhttps://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-broadly-want-the-senate-to-confirm-ketanji-brown-jackson-to-the-supreme-court/Buy or Sell : John Fetterman, Lt. Gov. of Pennsylvania - is the absolute model Heartland POD candidate He is doing well in the race - https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/599666-how-fetterman-is-pulling-away-in-pennsylvaniaAs LT. Gov he has been working on wrongful convictionsSide note: great website https://johnfetterman.com/Joined Big Brothers at age 23, winds up joining Americorp, getting his GED and eventual his Masters in public policy from Harvard, started a GED program, then became mayor of his town for 13 years before, officiated one of the first same sex marriages in the state, and opposed a new highway going through his town on grounds of environmental racismPro legalization of MJ and not at all shy about it “the idea that we have allowed a plant to be illegal in this country is absurd”The Big One - Are we in a cold civil war?We have talked about project blitz - but one thing we have not really touched on is the way it's being used to pass what amount to federal nullification lawsState's rights arguments are flying aroundThe distinction of local control v. states rightsVoting Rights restrictions Anti-trans rights billsGun laws like SAPA in MissouriState laws to contradict federal laws in trade, forien policy, just about any category you can imagine. Attacks on schools that teach based largely on the principles of federalism - even through the white washing of the civil war and the South's war effort based largely on Slavery as the motivator doesn't do justice to the brutality of slavery it DOES cheer on a President that suspended habeas corpus and intended to use federal power to take property and redistribute it https://heartlandpod.com/Twitter: @TheHeartlandPOD"Change The Conversation"

Breitbart reports that GOP political consultant Karl Rove had prior knowledge of the contents of the now-public affidavit filed by Sheena Greitens, the ex-wife of former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens. © 2022 KFTK (Audacy). All rights reserved. |  Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Ousted former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens joins Marc Cox to deny abuse allegations made against him by his second ex-wife Sheena Greitens.   Greitens Family © TNS

Allegations of abuse by Sheena Greitens have put Eric Greitens in a 'bind' says former Missouri State Sen John Lamping.   Eric Greitens Kisses Sheena Greitens afer Wnning Mo Gov race Nov 2016 Photo by Christian GoodenSt. Louis Post-DispatchTNSSipa USA

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is remembered for many things, among them his iconic observation that, "There are known knowns--there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns--that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know." The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine is full of reminders of the importance of understanding what we know, recognizing what we don't know, and being open to the idea that there is likely more we don't yet know. In order to help make sense of it, the Clements Center for National Security, Asia Policy Program, LBJ School of Public Affairs, Strauss Center for International Security and Law, Intelligence Studies Project, and Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin hosted "War in Ukraine: An Expert Panel Discussion" on Wednesday, March 2. The experts included Will Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center (and editor-in-chief of TNSR); Bobby Chesney, director of the Strauss Center; Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin; Sheena Greitens, founding director of the Asia Policy Program; Stephen Slick, director of the Intelligence Studies Project; Alexandra Sukalo, postdoctoral fellow at the Clements Center; and, Zoltán Fehér, predoctoral fellow at the Clements Center, and a former Hungarian diplomat. This discussion is essential listening for a better understanding of the ongoing aggressive war being waged by Russia and its implications for international security.

Former Russia adviser to Trump and author of "There Is Nothing For You Here," Fiona Hill, joins Bianna Golodryga to discuss the implications on America if Trump were to be re-elected. Following one of the largest oil spills in recent history, Mayor of Huntington Beach, California, Kim Carr expresses holding Amplify Energy accountable for the devastation. Then turning to China, national security expert, Sheena Greitens talks about the aggressive incursions near Taiwan to help train their air force, while wearing down Taiwan's defenses. And Ryan Hamptons talks with our Hari Sreenivasan about his new book, “Unsettled.” In it he reflects on his first-hand experience with the deadly cost of the highly addictive drug Oxycontin and his involvement in the case against Purdue Pharma for their part in the opioid crisis.   To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

As the illiberal use of technologies threatens to reshape the balance of power, MIGS is organizing a speaker series on digital authoritarianism. American and Canadian practitioners, researchers, and members of the private sector and civil society shine light on the strategies used by authoritarian states and discuss the pressing need for alliances between Canada, the U.S., and like-minded democratic countries. This third event in the series will focus on digital authoritarianism in China. Speakers: - Paul Mozur, New York Times technology correspondent focused on the intersection of technology and geopolitics in Asia. - Dr. Sheena Greitens, associate professor, LBJ School, and faculty fellow, Clements Center for National Security - Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, Senior Fellow in the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, University of Ottawa - Ainikki Riikonen, Research Assistant for the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Moderator: Kyle Matthews, Executive Director, MIGS This virtual speaker series is part of MIGS' "Canada-U.S. Democracy and Human Rights Collaboration Initiative" funded by the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa.

Speaker: Sheena Greitens, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Sheena Chestnut Greitens is an associate professor at the LBJ School, as well as a faculty fellow with the Clements Center for National Security and a distinguished scholar with the Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Her work focuses on East Asia, American national security, authoritarian politics, and foreign policy. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, an adjunct fellow with the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, an associate in research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, and a member of the Digital Freedom Forum at the Center for a New American Security. She holds a doctorate from Harvard University; an M.Phil from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar; and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Clint Work of the Stimson Center hosts a discussion between Gen. Vincent Brooks, senior fellow at the Clements Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and Sheena Greitens, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, about the Korean Peninsula. This group of experts assesses the security situation on the peninsula and how it affects U.S. security.

How should the US respond to the human rights crisis in Xinjiang? I was a guest on the Lawfare podcast this week, discussing my recent essay outlining how the U.S. can respond and push back on the Chinese government's abuses in the region. For the first fifteen minutes, I interviewed Sheena Greitens, an associate professor at UT Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs, on the origins of the camps and Xi's motivation for the current policy. In the second half, Lawfare editor Jacob Schulz and I discuss what the US government should do from legislative, executive and diplomatic angles.   Google calendar invite to Saturday 5 pm EST zoom phonebanking.  Google calendar invite to Sunday 5 pm EST zoom phonebanking. My email is jorschneider@gmail.com or I'm on twitter here if those links don't work for you. Thanks. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How should the US respond to the human rights crisis in Xinjiang? I was a guest on the Lawfare podcast this week, discussing my recent essay outlining how the U.S. can respond and push back on the Chinese government's abuses in the region. For the first fifteen minutes, I interviewed Sheena Greitens, an associate professor at UT Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs, on the origins of the camps and Xi's motivation for the current policy. In the second half, Lawfare editor Jacob Schulz and I discuss what the US government should do from legislative, executive and diplomatic angles.   Google calendar invite to Saturday 5 pm EST zoom phonebanking.  Google calendar invite to Sunday 5 pm EST zoom phonebanking. My email is jorschneider@gmail.com or I'm on twitter here if those links don't work for you. Thanks.

There is a human rights crisis going on in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. The Chinese government has been rounding up minority groups, most notably the Uighurs, and putting them into forced labor and reeducation camps. The government has gone to great lengths to keep Xinjiang away from international attention, and it has had some success in doing so. Jordan Schneider, the host of the ChinaTalk podcast, wrote an essay on Lawfare last week outlining how the U.S. can respond and push back on the Chinese government's abuses in the region. During a live event for ChinaTalk, Lawfare's Jacob Schulz talked through Xinjiang and potential U.S. responses with Schneider and Sheena Greitens, an associate professor at UT Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs.

This week, Isabelle and Vivien are joined by two guests. Their first guest is Laura Silver, who is a senior researcher at Pew Research Center. She is an expert in international survey research and writes about international public opinion on a variety of topics, including media usage and partisanship in Europe, Chinese public opinion, and global attitudes toward China. Their second guest is Professor Sheena Chestnut Greitens, who is an associate professor at the LBJ School at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work focuses on East Asia, American national security and authoritarian politics and foreign policy. In the episode, Laura and Sheena discuss Pew Research Center's recently published report about the views of Americans towards China. Please be reminded that the US-Asia Institute is a nonpartisan, non-advocacy organization with no policy agenda. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the US-Asia Institute.Support the show (https://www.usasiainstitute.org/support-usai-ch)

What explains Beijing's extraordinary campaign of repression in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region? In this episode, Jude Blanchette is joined by political scientist Sheena Greitens to discuss her 2019 paper, "Counterterrorism and Preventive Repression: China's Changing Strategy in Xinjiang."

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Sheena Greitens, associate professor at the LBJ School at the University of Texas, moderates a discussion between Tanvi Madan, senior fellow in the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution, and Jim Steinberg, professor of social science, international affairs, and law at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Their conversation revolves around the fraught, contentious, and important relationship between the world’s largest democracy, India, the world’s most powerful democracy, the United States, and the world’s fastest rising economy, China.

Sheena Greitens is an expert on authoritarian regimes, East Asia, and American national security policy. We discuss the history of dictatorial governments, the current situation in China and North Korea, and where the US stands from a national security perspective.

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, we participate in our first ever cross-podcast and listen in on a conversation that took place on the This is Democracy podcast about the U.S.-China relationship. Jeremi Suri, a renowned scholar of democracy and host of This is Democracy, sits down with Sheena Greitens, one of the newest additions to the University of Texas faculty. Professor Greitens is about to become an associate professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and she is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institute. Her research focuses on American national security, East Asia, and authoritarian politics in foreign policy. In particular, she has focused on China’s domestic security policies and their implications for the world. The conversation focuses on China under Xi Jinping’s leadership and takes a look at the regime of domestic surveillance that has developed.

Jeremi talks with Sheena Greitens about US and China relations in regards to how China’s surveillance technologies, open market, and patriotic nationalism influence foreign policy today. Zachary sets the scene with his poem, “A Superpower Scorned”. Sheena Chestnut Greitens will join the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Clements Center for National Security at […]

In a recent Washington Post editorial, western China scholars were taken to task for engaging in self-censorship: When it comes to China, Americans are victims of an insidious kind of censorship that stunts the debate they hear and read about in nearly invisible ways…  The upshot [of fear of visa denials, concern that university administrators will be upset, and worry that Chinese colleagues will be harmed] is that America’s… leading experts on China often remain silent as its regime becomes ever more repressive. (Washington Post, September 23. 2018) Where is the evidence?  Professors Rory Truex and Sheena Greitens, fellows in the National Committee’s Public Intellectuals Program (PIP), conducted a study to assess the extent of repression in the China field. On October 22, Professor Truex presented their findings, and Columbia Law School Professor Benjamin Liebman, also a PIP fellow, served as commentator. Rory Truex is an assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. He studies comparative politics, focusing on Chinese politics and non-democratic regimes. His book, Making Autocracy Work, explores the nature of policymaking and representation in China’s legislative system. His current research looks at the nature of repression and human rights abuses in contemporary China. He recently received the Stanley Kelley, Jr. Award for distinguished teaching.  Benjamin L. Liebman is the Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law and director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School. He is also the director of the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law. His current research focuses on the use of computational tools to study Chinese court judgments, the roles of artificial intelligence and big data in the Chinese legal system, Chinese tort law amd criminal procedure, and the evolution of China’s courts. His recent publications include Regulating the Visible Hand: The Institutional Implications of Chinese State Capitalism (with Curtis J. Milhaupt), Oxford University Press, 2015, and “Leniency in Chinese Criminal Law: Everyday Justice in Henan,” Berkeley Journal of International Law, 2015.

On Thursday’s St. Louis on the Air , host Don Marsh analyzed the aftermath of Missouri Governor Eric Greitens' 2018 State of the State address. Joining the discussion were St. Louis Public Radio’s statehouse reporter Marshall Griffin, political reporter Jo Mannies and interim political editor Jason Rosenbaum. Hours after Greitens delivered his second State of the State address, he acknowledged his involvement in an extra-marital affair before he launched his campaign for governor in the fall of 2015. Greitens and his wife, Sheena Greitens, issued joint statements through their lawyer after St. Louis television station KMOV-TV (Channel 4) reported on the matter , denying any allegations of blackmail. “It’s as if the State of the State address didn’t happen last night,” Griffin said. “Everything that constitutes the business of government right now is focused on this story that broke last night.” The House convened for five minutes Thursday morning to adjourn the meeting until next week,

Dr. Greitens discusses the situation with North Korea. She talks about the prospects for containing the country's nuclear capabilities short and long term.

In March 2011, China’s spending on internal security surpassed the budget for external defense for the first time. This was widely interpreted as evidence that China’s internal security apparatus – long seen as a highly repressive pillar of Communist Party rule – was tightening its control. In an upcoming piece for the China Quarterly, political scientist, China expert, and National Committee Public Intellectuals Program fellow Sheena Greitens challenges this understanding by contextualizing China’s security spending historically, and evaluating it against the magnitude of the threats it must address. Looking at a period of two decades, Dr. Greitens argues that China’s domestic security spending is more limited than most policy analysis suggests, and actually implies a weaker coercive capacity than is usually presumed. On April 26, Dr. Greitens joined National Committee President Stephen Orlins for a discussion of her current research, China’s domestic security budget, and its connection to developments in internal security under Xi Jinping. Sheena Greitens is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for East Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, and an associate in research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.  Dr. Greitens holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University; an M.Phil from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar; and a B.A. from Stanford University. Her research focuses on East Asia, security studies, and the politics of democracy and dictatorship. Her first book, Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence, was published in 2016 by Cambridge University Press.

North Korea is a hard place for most Americans to understand. Kim Jung-un and his inner circle keep a tight grip on information, and what the North Korean government does share with outsiders can be hard to decipher. What is clear though, is that the current state of relations between Washington DC and the regime in Pyongyang is growing colder every day, and North Korea's pursuit of long-range nuclear weapons makes resolving this conflict an urgent matter in US foreign policy today. How did the standoff between the US and North Korea begin, and who is to blame for the conflict? How has the Kim family, now in its third generation of leadership, managed to stay in power this long, and what are the prospects of removing them from power? And how has our policy toward North Korea been shaped by its geographic proximity to China and Russia? In this episode of The Road to Now, we get the answer to these questions and more in our interview with North Korea expert, Dr. Sheena Greitens. Sheena Greitens is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri.  She is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center for East Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.  For more on this episode and our podcast, please visit our website: www.TheRoadToNow.com  

In March 2011, China’s spending on internal security surpassed the budget for external defense for the first time. This was widely interpreted as evidence that China’s internal security apparatus – long seen as a highly repressive pillar of Communist Party rule – was tightening its control. In an upcoming piece for the China Quarterly, political scientist, China expert, and National Committee Public Intellectuals Program fellow Sheena Greitens challenges this understanding by contextualizing China’s security spending historically, and evaluating it against the magnitude of the threats it must address. Looking at a period of two decades, Dr. Greitens argues that China’s domestic security spending is more limited than most policy analysis suggests, and actually implies a weaker coercive capacity than is usually presumed. On April 26, Dr. Greitens joined National Committee President Stephen Orlins for a discussion of her current research, China’s domestic security budget, and its connection to developments in internal security under Xi Jinping. Sheena Greitens is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for East Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, and an associate in research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.  Dr. Greitens holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University; an M.Phil from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar; and a B.A. from Stanford University. Her research focuses on East Asia, security studies, and the politics of democracy and dictatorship. Her first book, Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence, was published in 2016 by Cambridge University Press.

Dr. Kim and Sheena Greitens are co-directors of the MU Institute for Korean Studies which opens officially February 9. He discusses the plans for the institution, its goals and work, and he summarizes some of the political scene in South Korea and the plight of refugees from North Korea.