Prof. John Rennie Short of UMBC holds talk with DAV K44 students majored in International Politics and Diplomatic Studies

On November 8th, 2019 afternoon, in the Khanh Tiet room, the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV) held a seminar on the topic "Crises of the United States". Speaking at the seminar was Prof. John Rennie Short from the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The seminar was attended by more than 50 students of Class 44 of the Faculty of International Politics and Diplomatic Studies.

Throughout the seminar, Prof. John Rennie Short shared the theory and practice of the three types of crises facing the U.S. Financial crisis is understood as an imbalance between government spending and tax revenue (fiscal crisis). Supply-demand crisis, in which supply does not meet demand of the economy, occurs due to the wrong government policy (rationality crisis). A crisis of legitimacy is the loss of trust in the government by the public (legitimation crisis).

Prof. Short also gave practical examples of each of these crises, such as data on public debt in the US, the deterioration of infrastructure, the separation between the elite and the rest of the society as well as data on the income decline of the middle class in the States over the past 30 years. He also shared his personal views on the difficulties in deciding US policy for "hot spots" in the world over the past time.

The seminar is also a place for students to raise their questions about the factors that shape the U.S’s domestic and foreign policy under President Donald Trump as well as the impacts of those policies on the world and specifically on Southeast Asia and Vietnam. The students asked many interesting questions for Prof. John Rennie Short and excited with the detailed answers from him.

Dr. Nguyen Thi Thuy Hang of the Faculty of International Politics and Diplomatic Studies hosted the seminar.