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Distinguished Speakers North Country Chapter Event: "Competing Visions of International Order Between China and the West: Past and Present" with Frieder Dengler

When
May 15, 2025

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Location
Hybrid Event - Available via Zoom & The Remington Club

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The North County Chapter of the

San Diego World Affairs Council Presents

A Distinguished Speakers Series Program Featuring

Frieder Dengler, PhD

Thursday, May 15th, 2025

10:00pam - 12:00pm

Location:

The Remington Club Assisted Living Community

2nd Floor

Rancho Bernardo, CA

*This is a hybrid event. Zoom link to be sent to all Zoom registrants via email two days prior to the event. For in-person registrants, specific directions and map will be provided.*

About this Program

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, European rulers began to dispatch embassies to Beijing to establish diplomatic relations with imperial China. European envoys and their Chinese counterparts soon discovered that they each had very different views about the organization and conduct of relations between sovereign rulers. Fast forward to today, competing visions of international order are once again a major issue in China’s strategic competition with the West. How can the history of China’s diplomatic encounters with Europe help us understand today’s challenges in international politics? What are the relevant competing visions of international order currently at play? What are the prospects of conflict and cooperation in this area?

International relations scholar Dr. Frieder G. Dengler will review the history of China’s early diplomatic encounters with Europe and how it may help us to understand pressing challenges in international politics today. Q&A will follow his presentation.

Free to the public also available via Zoom. Pre-registration required.

About Frieder Dengle

Dr. Frieder G. Dengler is an international relations scholar and a teaching assistant at Arizona State University. His research focuses on international order, global history, and international organizations & global governance. He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from American University. He also holds an M.Phil. and M.A. in international affairs from American University, a B.A. in political science from the University of Tübingen in Germany and studied at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in Russia. Previously, Dr. Dengler was a predoctoral fellow in the U.S.-Asia Grand Strategy Program at the University of Southern California and a Peace Scholar dissertation fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. He speaks German, English, and Russian.

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