Apply Now: Belt, Road, and Beyond
A CSIS Executive Course

CSIS is now accepting applications for the Spring 2021 Belt and Road Executive Course. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a $1 trillion flagship foreign policy effort of Chinese president Xi Jinping, could reshape global networks of trade, transport, and political ties within and between countries for decades to come. But since its announcement, the BRI has remained shrouded in confusion and controversy, and it now faces major challenges, including the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing insights from leading experts and the Reconnecting Asia Project, the most extensive effort to map and analyze these developments to date, CSIS has developed a Master’s-level introduction to China’s BRI. This private, virtual course explains what the BRI is, what it is not, and how it is impacting commercial and strategic realities on the ground. Download the course brochure here.
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Details
DATE: March 15-19, 2021
LOCATION: Online
TUITION: $3,000
APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 22, 2021
Curriculum
Comprehensive Seminars
- China's "Health Silk Road" and Covid-19 Impacts.
- Debt Sustainability.
- Sino-Russian Cooperation and Competition.
- China’s Domestic Politics and Economic Motivations.
- Ground Realities in Africa, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and the Arctic.
- China's "Digital Silk Road" and New Infrastructure.
Expert Instructors
Seminars will be led by a diverse group of experts with a wide range of experience in academia, the private sector, and government.
Dr. Jon B. Alterman, Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director of the Middle East Program, CSIS
Romina Bandura, Senior Fellow with the Project on Prosperity and Development and Project on U.S. Leadership in Development, CSIS
Michael Bennon, Managing Director, Stanford Global Projects Center, Stanford University
Heather A. Conley, Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic, CSIS
Dr. Alexander Cooley, Claire Tow Professor of Political Science, Barnard College and Director of The Harriman Institute, Columbia University
Kristen Cordell, Visiting Council on Foreign Relations in International Affairs Fellow, CSIS
Judd Devermont, Director, Africa Program, CSIS
Matthew P. Goodman, Senior Vice President, Simon Chair in Political Economy, and Senior Adviser for Asian Economics, CSIS
Murray Hiebert, Senior Associate, Southeast Asia Program, CSIS
Jonathan E. Hillman, Senior Fellow of the Economics Program and Director of the Reconnecting Asia Project, CSIS
Dr. Agatha Kratz, Associate Director, Rhodium Group and Adjunct Fellow, CSIS
Dr. Xue Lei, Research Fellow of the Institute for World Economy, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies
Dr. J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director of the Global Health Policy Center, CSIS
Margaret Myers, Director of the Asia and Latin America Program, Inter-American Dialogue
Jane Nakano, Senior Fellow, Energy Security and Climate Change Program, CSIS
Richard M. Rossow, Senior Adviser and Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies, CSIS
Stephanie Segal, Senior Fellow, Economics Program, CSIS
Erol Yayboke, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow with the Project on Prosperity and Development and Project on U.S. Leadership in Development, CSIS
Dr. Min Ye, Associate Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Dr. Ye Yu, Associate Research Fellow and Assistant Director of the Institute for World Economy, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies
Dr. Wang Yuzhu, Director of the BRI Studies Center, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies
Contact
For more information, please contact Maesea McCalpin, Associate Director of the CSIS Reconnecting Asia project, at mmccalpin@csis.org.