{"id":5779,"date":"2024-02-02T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cfir.gr\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:18:02","slug":"recentering-pacific-asia-regional-chinaand-world-order-by-brantly-womack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfir.gr\/el\/recentering-pacific-asia-regional-chinaand-world-order-by-brantly-womack\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRecentering Pacific Asia: Regional Chinaand World Order\u201d by Brantly Womack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 2, 2024, the Council for International Relations\u2013Greece and I.D.I.S. organized a lecture by <strong>Professor Brantly Womack<\/strong>, Professor Emeritus of Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, on the topic <strong>\u201cRecentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order.\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The panel of speakers included: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Athanasios Platias<\/strong>, Professor of Strategy, University of Piraeus, President of CfIR-GR; <br><strong>Konstantinos Tsimonis<\/strong>, Assistant Professor at King\u2019s College London and Pantheon University, Head of the Chinese Program of the I.D.I.S.; <br><strong>Vasilis Trigas<\/strong>, Visiting Assistant Professor, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conversation was moderated by Professor <strong>Konstantina Botsiou<\/strong>, Dean at the University of Piraeus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pacific Rim of Asia\u2013Pacific Asia\u2013is now the world\u2019s largest and most cohesive economic region, and China has returned to its center. China\u2019s global outlook is shaped by its regional experience, first as a pre-modern Asian center, then displaced by Western-oriented modernization, and now returning as a central producer and market in a globalized region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Developments since 2008 have been so rapid that future directions are uncertain, but China\u2019s presence, population, and production guarantee it a key role. As a global competitor, China has awakened American anxieties and the US-China rivalry has become a major concern for the rest of the world. However, rather than facing a power transition between hegemons, the United States and China are primary nodes in a multi-layered, interconnected global matrix that neither can control. Pacific Asia is now the key venue for working out a new world order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"873\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cfir.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/21-873x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfir.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/21-873x1024.jpg 873w, https:\/\/cfir.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/21-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/cfir.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/21-768x901.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cfir.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/21-860x1009.jpg 860w, https:\/\/cfir.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/21.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 873px) 100vw, 873px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 2, 2024, the Council for International Relations\u2013Greece and I.D.I.S. organized a lecture by Professor Brantly Womack, Professor Emeritus of Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, on the topic \u201cRecentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order.\u201d The panel of speakers included: Athanasios Platias, Professor of Strategy, University of Piraeus, President of CfIR-GR; Konstantinos Tsimonis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[28],"class_list":{"0":"post-5779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lectures-seminars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfir.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfir.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfir.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfir.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfir.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfir.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5782,"href":"https:\/\/cfir.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions\/5782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfir.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfir.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfir.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfir.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5779"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfir.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=5779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}