On October 16, the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy at The Bush School of Government & Public Service hosted Sebastian Rosato, Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, for a discussion about the future of US-China relations.
During the event, Rosato discussed how an appreciation of the “security dilemma” is crucial for understanding how US-China relations will continue to develop. Many believe that there is no need for the current security competition between the two countries to intensify or for them to go to war. However, according to Rosato, a more realistic approach to the subject reveals a less optimistic outlook. The US and China will likely compete more and more as time goes on. Rosato argued that the security dilemma is a product of great-power politics and a fact of international life.
Along with teaching at Notre Dame, Rosato is a fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and the Notre Dame International Security Center. He is the author of Europe United: Power Politics and the Making of the European Community (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011), Intentions in Great Power Politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021), and How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023) (with John Mearsheimer).
