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Technology and the Rise of Great Powers

Technology and the Rise of Great Powers

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Wednesday,
January
29
Virtual Event,
12:00 pm -
01:00 pm
Categories: WACU Program | WACU Programming

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA DEPARTMENTS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND CENTER FOR ASIAN AND PACIFIC STUDIES

Featuring Jeffrey Ding, PhD

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In this talk, focused on his new book, Technology and the Rise of the Great Powers, Jeffrey Ding offers a different explanation of how technological revolutions affect competition among great powers. Rather than focusing on which state was the first to introduce major innovations, he investigates why some states were more successful than others at adapting and embracing general-purpose technologies at scale.

Drawing on historical case studies of past industrial revolutions and statistical analysis, Ding develops a theory that emphasizes institutional adaptations oriented around diffusing technological advances throughout the economy. Applying GPT diffusion theory to analyze US-China competition in AI, Ding’s book derives novel insights into how today’s technological breakthroughs will affect the US-China power balance and the optimal strategies for the US and China to pursue.

Jeffrey Ding, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. His book Technology and the Rise of Great Powers, published with Princeton University Press, investigates how past technological revolutions influenced the rise and fall of great powers, with implications for US–China competition in emerging technologies like AI. Ding’s research has been published in European Journal of International Relations, Foreign Affairs, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, and Security Studies. He received his DPhil in 2021 from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and earned his BA in 2016 at the University of Iowa.

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