CIAS at the Corvinus University of Budapes
What is the impact of AI transformation on the dynamics of great power competition in a shifting global order?
Abstract
The quest of technological dominance has consistently been a central focus in the competition among major powers. Certain international relations scholars believe that the technological competition possesses the definitive capability of influencing an emerging global order. AI currently plays a significant role in the competition between the United States and China from various angles. The lecture focuses on how the United States try to prevent the access of China to the latest cutting-edge technology from the West. AI has significantly contributed to China's foreign policy tools concerning the Global South under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative’s Digital Silk Road project launched in 2015.
Biography
Prof. László Csicsmann has been a Full Professor and head of the Corvinus Centre for Contemporary Asia Studies at the Corvinus Institute of Advanced Studies of the Corvinus University of Budapest since November 2023. He is an External Fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs (HIIA). Previously, he was the Dean of the Kautz Gyula Faculty of Economics and Business at the Széchenyi University in Győr between 2022 and 2023. Before that, he worked at the Corvinus University of Budapest in a variety of capacities between 2002 and 2022, including Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs (2021–2022), Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and International Relations (2013–2021), and Director of the Institute of International Studies (2015–2021). Prof. Csicsmann obtained his PhD from the Corvinus University of Budapest’s Doctoral Program in International Relations. His main research interests include area studies with a special focus on the broader Middle Eastern region, South Asia, theories of International Relations (IR) and development, as well as the formation of regional order(s). His special research focus includes the foreign policy behaviour of regional states, the post-Arab Spring (dis-)order in the Middle East, as well as global dynamics and the Middle East and South Asia.