Yakima Valley College in Yakima, Washington posted on 18 June 2025 a Q & A with me on transitioning in 1960 from a community college to George Washington University and a career in the U.S. Foreign Service.
It emphasizes the importance of staying in touch with developments in the United States outside Washington, D.C. and the importance of American soft power in international affairs.
Ohio State's East Asian Studies Center and Center for African Studies, in conjunction with Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service Africa-China Initiative and George Washington University's East Asia National Resource Center are hosting on 15 November 2024 an event titled "New Perspectives on China and Africa" from 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time. Participants may attend in person or via Zoom.
Speakers are:
--China-Africa Security Engagement Since COVID-19 by David Shinn
--Built Higher, Dug Deeper: The Effect on Chinese Debt Financing on African Infrastructure Coverage by Jyhong Hwang
--The Evolution of Chinese Soft Power in Africa: Implications for Technology, African Languages and Cultures in Africa and the Diaspora by Phiwokuhle Mnyandu
--China in Africa, Environmental Governance and Civil Society: The Case of the Kua Forest in Burkina Faso by Asma Amina Belem
--China's Relational Power in Africa: Beijing's "New Type of Party-to-Party Relations" by Joshua Eisenman
This is a syllabus for a graduate level course on China-Africa relations during the fall 2024 semester in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.
GW Today published on 30 October 2023 an article titled "GW Alumni Authored Book on China's Engagement in Africa" by Brook Endale.
The article is a summary of comments made by Josh Eisenman and me at a launch of our book titled China's Relations with Africa: A New Era for Strategic Engagement at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.
The book is available on the Columbia University Press website at http://cup.columbia.edu/book/a/9780231210003/. There is a 20 percent discount if you use the CUP20 promotion code.
On Friday, October 20, 2023 from 12:30 to 2:00 pm, the George Washington University Institute for African Studies in partnership with the GWU Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs is hosting a book talk titled "China's Relationship with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement" with David Shinn and Joshua Eisenman. For details and registration, go to the preceding link.
The authors are discussing their new book titled China's Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement published by Columbia University Press.
This is a syllabus for a graduate-level course on China-Africa relations taught at George Washington University during the fall 2022 semester.
