The Ebola Crisis and China’s Search for a Role as a Responsible Great Power

Guest lecture with Barry Buzan, Professor of International Relations, LSE as part of the ChinaTalks Series

Moderator: Bertel Heurlin, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen

The talk is partly based on a recent publication “Great Power Management in International Society”
 by Shunji Cui and Barry Buzan in the Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2016, 181–210.

Short bio, Barry Buzan

Barry Buzan is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the LSE (formerly Montague Burton Professor); honorary professor at Copenhagen, Jilin, and China Foreign Affairs Universities; a Senior Fellow at LSE Ideas; and a Fellow of the British Academy. From 1988 to 2002 he was Project Director at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI). From 1995 to 2002 he was research Professor of International Studies at the University of Westminster, and before that Professor of International Studies at the University of Warwick. During 1993 he was visiting professor at the International University of Japan, and in 1997-8 he was Olof Palme Visiting Professor in Sweden.

Buzan has written, co-authored or edited over twenty-five books, written or co-authored nearly one hundred and fifty articles and chapters, and lectured, broadcast or presented papers in over twenty countries. In addition to theory, he has engaged in the public policy debates about security in Europe, South Asia, Southern Africa and East Asia.