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• Monica Toft: Spheres of Influence and the Changing Global Order

  • When
    6 Nov 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Union Club of Boston, 8 Park St Pl, Boston, MA 02108

  **Registration is closed and the event is sold out for in-person attendance. Please email admin@becboston.org to be added to the waitlist. 

  Professor Monica Duffy Toft 

  Spheres of Influence and the Changing Global Order

  Academic Dean and Professor of International Politics. Her research interests include international security and strategy, ethnic and religious violence, civil wars and the relationship between demography and national security. 

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  This talk presents the basis of a forthcoming book that argues that today’s great power competition unfolds across three interconnected domains—politics, economics, and technology—and that prevailing across all three is essential to securing and sustaining global leadership. While geography once anchored the boundaries of influence, the 21st century’s contest is no longer tethered to territory in the same way. Ideas, innovation, and the control of critical technologies now rival physical space and terms of trade as a decisive factors shaping power. Drawing on historical precedents, contemporary case studies, and a new analytical framework— “open” and “closed” hegemony—Spheres of Power shows how states wishing to maintain their own independence or rise to a position of global leadership must adapt to this transformed landscape, balancing stability, justice, and strategic advantage in an era where the competition for influence extends far beyond borders.

  **Please note that this luncheon will be held at the Union Club of Boston and not at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston due to availability. Capacity is limited to 80 at the Union Club. 
  

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• George Yip: "China's Innovation and Industrial Policy Challenges to the USA"

  • When
    4 Dec 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  George Yip: "China's Innovation and Industrial Policy Challenges to the USA"

  
  

  Emeritus Professor of Marketing and Strategy at Imperial College Business School, London

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  "China’s Innovation and Industrial Policy Challenges to the USA” examines how Chinese companies have moved from imitation to global leadership in innovation in various sectors such as electric vehicles and online retailing, as well as reinventing management. The talk also contrasts China’s state-driven industrial policy with the market-led U.S. model, and addresses the trade war and decoupling between the U.S. and China.

  
  

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• Atul Gawande: “How to Live Longer: Lessons from USAID’s Work on the Reduction of Premature Death”

  • When
    17 Dec 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  Atul Gawande: “How to Live Longer: Lessons from USAID’s Work on the Reduction of Premature Death”

  McArthur Fellow and an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher

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  A discussion with Atul Gawande, former Assistant Administrator for Global Health at the US Agency for International Development from January 2022 to January 2025. Gains in reducing premature mortality – death in childhood and adulthood in early and middle age – have added three decades to the lifespan of the human species. And a subset of lower income countries have demonstrated that systems focused on reducing premature mortality through universal primary care can achieve higher life expectancy than the US at a fraction of the cost.

  
  

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