IPEC Annual Symposia

The first annual International Politics and Economics Symposium, FROM DENG TO DOLLARS: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHINA'S RISE was held on Friday, September 21, 2012. Three panels were held in the afternoon and a roundtable discussion in the evening. To see videos of each session, click on the panel numbers below.

Welcome by Ronald Liebowitz, President, Middlebury College
Introduction by Erik Bleich, Middlebury College
Director of International Politics and Economics

Panel One: Deng and the Remaking of China
by Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University
Moderator: Sarah Stroup, Political Science;
Student Chair: Julia Deutsch ’13

Panel Two: What Exactly Is the China Model?
by Yasheng Huang, International Program Professor in Chinese Economy and Business, MIT Sloan School of Management
Moderator: Will Pyle, Economics
Student Chair:  Cara Myers ’13

Panel Three: The China Threat: Fact or Fiction
by Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Moderator: Jessica Teets, Political Science
Student Chair: Kathryn DeSutter ’13

Roundtable Discussion
Ezra Vogel, Yasheng Huang, and Scott Rozelle
Chair: Erik Bleich, Director, International Politics and Economics