詹妮弗·林德 ─ 处于前沿的独裁者:中国创新与全球力量平衡

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詹妮弗·林德 ─ 处于前沿的独裁者:中国创新与全球力量平衡

2021 年 4 月 20 日,星期二

中午 12 点至下午 1 点

本次会议将本着“进行中的”研究研讨会的精神。我们欢迎教师和研究生参与。论文将提前大约一周发出,但会议还将包括一个简短的演讲。

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一份著名的 IR 文献认为,由于其独裁体制,中国将无法创新。这表明中国将无法规避“中等收入陷阱”,也无法在经济或军事上赶上美国。这种观点在理论上基于经济学文献,该文献强调“包容性”制度在促进经济增长和创新方面的重要性。这些制度通常与民主联系在一起,表明创新具有“民主优势”。然而,越来越多的证据表明,中国在全球创新排名中的地位不断上升,反驳了这一观点。如何解释中国日益增长的创新?我用两个论点来解释这个谜题。首先,关于创新中“民主优势”的争论忽视了专制政权的巨大异质性。一些专制政权通过腐败和其他榨取式政策扼杀增长和创新,而另一些则提供公共产品、投资于教育,并奉行其他鼓励经济增长和创新的政策。其次,IR 学者倾向于狭义地定义创新:强调新产品和基于科学的创新,而没有考虑其他也能推动生产力和增长的变体。中国的案例表明:1) 中国政府目前正在推行鼓励创新的包容性政策。此外,2) 中国在学者们忽视的创新类型(以消费者为中心和效率驱动)方面表现最强。

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詹妮弗·林德,是达特茅斯学院政府学副教授,也是哈佛大学赖肖尔日本研究所的教职助理。她还是伦敦查塔姆研究所的助理研究员。林德教授着有《抱歉的国家:国际政治中的道歉》(康奈尔大学出版社)。她在国际安全和国际研究季刊等期刊上撰写了大量学术文章,并在外交事务和国家利益方面为更广泛的读者写作。林德目前正在写一本关于国家成功崛起为大国的条件的书。林德拥有博士学位。麻省理工学院政治学博士,也是加州大学圣地亚哥分校和加州大学伯克利分校的毕业生。

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Jennifer Lind ─ Autocrats at the Cutting Edge: Chinese Innovation and the Global Balance of Power


Tuesday, April 20, 2021


12 p.m. – 1 p.m.


This session will be in the spirit of a “work-in-progress” research workshop. We welcome faculty and graduate student engagement. A paper will be sent out approximately one week ahead of time, but the session will also include a short presentation.


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A prominent IR literature holds that China will be unable to innovate because of its authoritarian institutions. This suggests that China will be unable to evade the “middle income trap” or catch up to the United States economically or militarily. This view is grounded theoretically in an economics literature that emphasizes the importance of “inclusive” institutions in promoting economic growth and innovation. Such institutions are usually associated with democracy, suggesting a “democratic advantage” at innovation. Yet this view is increasingly refuted by evidence that China has been rising in the global innovation ranks. What explains China’s growing innovation? I explain this puzzle with two arguments. First, arguments about a “democratic advantage” in innovation neglect the tremendous heterogeneity of authoritarian regimes. While some authoritarian regimes stifle growth and innovation through corruption and other extractive policies, others provide public goods, invest in education, and pursue other policies that encourage economic growth and innovation. Second, IR scholars tend to define innovation narrowly: emphasizing new product and science-based innovation, while not taking into account other variants that also drive productivity and growth. The case of China shows that 1) the Chinese government is pursuing inclusive policies today that encourage innovation. Furthermore, 2) China performs the strongest in the types of innovation (consumer-focused and efficiency-driven) that scholars neglect. China’s innovation success has profound implications for the global balance of power (suggesting a likely bipolar distribution of power in the future) as well as for the future of international order.


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Jennifer Lind, is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, and a Faculty Associate at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies at Harvard University. She is also a Research Associate at Chatham House in London. Professor Lind is the author of Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics (Cornell University Press). She has authored numerous scholarly articles in journals such as International Security and International Studies Quarterly, and writes for wider audiences in Foreign Affairs and National Interest. Lind is currently working on a book about the conditions under which countries successfully rise to be great powers. Lind holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is also a graduate of the University of California, San Diego and the University of California, Berkeley.


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