Meeting the Challenge of the Profound Change in the World Order Unseen in A Century 

Abstract 

President Xi Jinping’s characterization of “the profound change unseen in a century” captures the essence of the on-going power transition in the international system. This lecture applies IR theory to analyze some basic elements of this unseen change, e.g., the cycles of rise and fall of major powers. Increasingly the question of how to handle the grave geopolitical consequences of power shift has become a matter of peace or war, and thus affects all of us enormously.   

BIO

You Ji 由冀 (BA, Peking, PhD, ANU) is professor in the Department of International Studies, Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University. He is author of four books in English and over 150 academic papers, including 22 SSCI journal articles. You Ji is on the editorial board of seven academic journals including The China Journal, Issue and Studies, and Journal of Contemporary China.