POMEPS Podcast Featuring CWP Alum Dawn Murphy

China’s Rise in the Global South & Anti-Blackness and Identity in Tunisia (S. 12, Ep. 21)

Dawn Murphy of the US National War College joins Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast to discuss her book, China’s Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing’s Alternative World Order. The book examines China’s behaviour as a rising power in two key Global South regions, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. Murphy compares and analyses thirty years of China’s interactions with these regions across a range of functional areas: political, economic, foreign aid, and military.  (Starts at 00:46).

https://pomeps.org/chinas-rise-in-the-global-south-anti-blackness-and-identity-in-tunisia-s-12-ep-21

https://www.amazon.com/Chinas-Rise-Global-South-Alternative/dp/1503630099

Dr. Dawn Murphy joined the National War College as an Associate Professor of National Security Strategy in 2022. Prior to joining NWC, her academic appointments included Associate Professor of International Security Studies at Air War College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Princeton (Columbia)-Harvard China and the World Program at Princeton University.

Murphy specializes in Chinese foreign policy and domestic politics, US-China relations, and international relations. Her research analyzes China’s interests and behavior as a rising global power towards the existing international order. She examines China’s relations with the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa in her book China’s Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing’s Alternative World Order (Stanford University Press, 2022). It analyzes China’s foreign policy approach towards the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa regionally (e.g., political, economic, military, and foreign aid) and through detailed case studies of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF), the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), the China-Middle East Issues Special Envoy, the China-Africa Issues Special Envoy, China’s Special Envoy for Syria, China’s naval base in Djibouti, and China’s Belt and Road initiative.

Dr. Murphy holds a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and Ph.D. in Political Science from George Washington University.

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