M. Taylor Fravel
Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy
Virtual Member-only Briefing
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 | 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM ET
With more than 2 million active military soldiers, the People’s Republic of China has the largest army in the world. In addition to these numbers, the technological and strategic capabilities of the People´s Liberation Army have increased significantly in recent years. How does the Chinese leadership use the People´s Liberation Army in its strategic repositioning? Should we expect any aggressive military action from China in the coming years? And how does the U.S. figure into China’s current military strategy? Please join us on Tuesday, April 5th at 6 PM ET when we discuss these and other questions with Professor M. Taylor Fravel, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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SPEAKER:
Professor M. Taylor Fravel
M. Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taylor studies international relations, with a focus on international security, China, and East Asia. His books include Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes, (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949 (Princeton University Press, 2019). His other publications have appeared in International Security, Foreign Affairs, Security Studies, International Studies Review, The China Quarterly, The Washington Quarterly, Journal of Strategic Studies, Armed Forces & Society, Current History, Asian Survey, Asian Security, China Leadership Monitor, and Contemporary Southeast Asia. Taylor is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University, where he received his PhD. He also has graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 2016, he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation. Taylor has been a member of the board of directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and serves as the Principal Investigator for the Maritime Awareness Project.
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