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Tariffs are the tip of a conflict spiral: Actions that trigger powerful disturbances, and dislocations in culture and society, politics and economics, currencies and exchange, national security and foreign policy, military action, and even war of “last resort” – to note the most obvious. Forum 1 provides an overall context for the challenges at hand and presents different perspectives on past, present, and alternative futures. Questions that will be considered: Why Trade Wars? What matter most in trade wars and to whom? Who gains? Who loses?
Join us for a fascinating and substantive discussion on the current trade crisis between China and the United States.
OUR PROGRAM
Dr. Nazli Choucri: Chair
Professor of Political Science, MIT
Dr. Min Chen: Speaker on 'Trade Wars – Causes and Consequences'
Professor of Physics, MIT
Dr. Wennie Wu: Speaker on 'War and Peace of World Trade'
Visiting Scientist at MIT, Fall 2017; Director of International Innovative Institute
Dr. Daron Acemoglu: Speaker on ‘Trade Wars and the Political Order' and Chair of Q/A
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, MIT
Dr. John Tirman: Panel Chair
The executive director and a principal research scientist at MIT's Center for International Studies.
Open discussion
Co-sponsorship:
Center for International Studies, International Innovative Institute
Brief Bio of Panelists (In alphabetical order):
Professor Daron Acemoglu: the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics. He authored Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (2006) and Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (2012). The latter, an influential book on the role that institutions play in shaping nations' economic outcomes, prompted wide scholarly and media commentary. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005. Acemoglu is best known for his work on political economy. He has authored hundreds of papers. Acemoglu ranked third, behind Paul Krugman and Greg Mankiw, in the list of "Favorite Living Economists Under Age 60" in a 2011 survey among American economists. In 2015 he was named the most cited economist of the past 10 years.
Professor Min Chen: Professor of Physics at MIT. Professor Chen's research achievements include co-discoverer of the J-particle which established quarks being the most fundamental building blocks (Nobel Prize, 1976) and the carrier of Nuclear forces: the Gluons; developing new meta material, invisible cloaks and testing the most fundamental logic and philosophical question: does "you" plus "not you" equal one (universe)?
Professor Nazli Choucri: Professor of Political Science at MIT working in the area of international relations and political economy. Focusing on international relations, she concentrates on sources and consequences of international conflict and violence. Professor Choucri is the Principal Investigator and Director of a multi-year multi-disciplinary collaborative research project of MIT and Harvard University on Explorations in Cyber International Relations (ECIR). Professor Choucri is the architect and Director of the Global System for Sustainable Development (GSSD), a multi-lingual web-based knowledge networking system focusing on the multi-dimensionality of sustainability. She has just completed her long service as Associate Director of MIT's Technology and Development Program and Head of MIT's Middle East Program. Professor Choucri is a member of the European Academy of Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute (among other professional organizations). She advised numerous international organizations.
Dr. John Tirman: The executive director and a principal research scientist at MIT's Center for International Studies. Tirman is author, or coauthor and editor, of fourteen books on international affairs, including, most recently, Dream Chasers: Immigration and the American Backlash and The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America's Wars. Earlier work includes The Fallacy of Star Wars (1984), the first important critique of strategic defense, and Spoils of War: the Human Cost of America's Arms Trade (1997). In addition, he has published more than 100 articles in periodicals. He has been a trustee of International Alert, Mother Jones magazine, the Institute for War & Peace Reporting, and the Center for Contemporary Art at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Dr. Wennie Wu: Visiting Scientist in MIT's Nuclear Sciences of Physics Department in the fall of 2017; the Organizing Chair and Speaker at the workshop of Cross Cultural Converse on Sciences and Humanities to Sustain Peace on September 30, 2017 at MIT; Director of International Innovative Institute; Director of OVium. Dr. Wu got her PhD from University of California at Berkeley. She achieved subnano structural analysis of large crystals of proteins in the 80s. 30 years later, subnano structural analysis of proteins was achieved with technologies that led to the Nobel Prize in 2017. Dr. Wu developed the Principle of Limitology which is relevant to the limited rationality of the Nobel Prize in Economic Science, 2017. Dr. Wu has led technical projects of big budgets, chaired big conferences, developed big cultural programs and got the reputation of Ms. Missions Impossible.
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In fall of 2017, Professors Min Chen, Nazli Choucri, Jonathan Alan King, Max Eric Tegmark and Dr. Wu presented a workshop of Cross Cultural Converse on Sciences and Humanities to Sustain Peace. This coming series of trade wars is a continuance of that workshop. Please see http://newscienceandhumanity.mit.edu
