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TXST @ KT Speaker Series
The TXST@KT Speaker series will feature Dr. Ionut Popescu on April 29th at 4:30 p.m. Register for the event online, with a $10 donation to the TXST@KT Scholarship Fund.
The past few years have brought deteriorating diplomatic relations and increasing military and economic tensions between the United States and China. While it’s been a global superpower for more than 60 years with no peer rival for over 30 years, the United States now needs to adapt to a geopolitical shift in order to contain China’s quest for global superpower status.
A scholar of modern American foreign policy and grand strategy, Dr. Ionut Popescu received his PhD in Political Science and International Relations from Duke University and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Clements Center for National Security at UT Austin. He is the author of Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy: How American Presidents Succeed in Foreign Policy. Dr. Popescu currently teaches courses on international security, strategy and conflict, and American foreign policy and national security. He also serves as a Navy Intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve, and deployed with the US Joint Special Operations Command in 2023-2024. His most recent book, No Peer Rival: American Grand Strategy in the Era of Great Power Competition will be available in April of 2025.
Dr. Popescu’s book offers a realistic assessment of several important regional powers’ most likely courses of action and his research identifies China as the biggest threat to America’s unique position in the international system. He will discuss how alterations to America’s military and diplomatic strategies, along with a realistic approach to industrial policy, international trade, energy production, and technological superiority offers the best chance for the US to outcompete Beijing long-term.