David Shambaugh

David Shambaugh
Shambaugh speaking in 2015
CitizenshipAmerican
Occupation(s)Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & International Affairs
Academic background
EducationElliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University (BA)

Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University (MA)

University of Michigan (PhD)
Doctoral advisorMichel Oksenberg
Academic work
DisciplineInternational relations, Chinese studies
Sub-disciplineChina's domestic politics; China's foreign relations; China's military and security; and international relations of Asia.
InstitutionsElliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

David Shambaugh (Chinese: 沈大伟; born January 18, 1953) is the Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & International Affairs, and director of the China Policy Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington DC. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Education

Shambaugh is the son of George E. Shambaugh, Jr., a physician. David Shambaugh earned his bachelor's degree from the Elliott School of International Affairs of George Washington University, where he now teaches. He received his Masters of Arts in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and earned his PhD in political science from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Michel Oksenberg.[1]

Career

Shambaugh is the Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & International Affairs, and director of the China Policy Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington D.C. He specializes in China's domestic politics, China's foreign relations, China's military and security, and international relations of Asia.[2] Regarded inside and outside China as an authority on China's foreign policy, military and security issues and Chinese politics, Shambaugh has been cited in the state media.[3] He is a regular media commentator and has acted as an advisor to the United States government and several private foundations and corporations.[4] He was formerly the editor of the China Quarterly, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[5] Shambaugh's book China Goes Global was selected by The Economist as one of the best books of the year.[6] In 2015, researchers at the China Foreign Affairs University named him the second-most influential China expert in the United States, behind David M. Lampton.[3]

Shambaugh is a participant of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy convened by Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations.[7]

Bibliography

  • The Making of a Premier: Zhao Ziyang's Provincial Career (1984)
  • China's Military in Transition (1991)
  • Beautiful Imperialist (1993)
  • Deng Xiaoping: Portrait of a Chinese Statesman (1995)
  • Chinese Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice (1996)
  • The China Reader: The Reform Era (1998)
  • China's Military Faces the Future (1999)
  • Is China Unstable: Assessing the Factors (2000)
  • The Modern Chinese State (2000)
  • Modernizing China's Military (2003)
  • The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures (2005)
  • Power Shift: China & Asia's New Dynamics (2005)
  • China-Europe Relations (2007)
  • China Watching: Perspectives from Europe, Japan, and the United States (2007)
  • American and European Relations with China (2008)
  • China's Communist Party: Atrophy & Adaptation (2008)
  • International Relations of Asia (2008)
  • Charting China's Future: Domestic and International Challenges (2011)
  • China Goes Global: The Partial Power (Oxford University Press, 2013)
  • China's Future (Polity, 2016)
  • "Without America". Correspondence. Quarterly Essay. 69: 101–108. March 2018.
  • China and the World (Oxford University Press, 2020).
  • Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia (Oxford University Press, 2020).
  • China's Leaders: From Mao to Now (Polity, 2021)
  • International Relations of Asia (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

References

  1. ^ "中国问题专家沈大伟见证中国". 中国网. 21 May 2010. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  2. ^ "David Shambaugh". The George Washington University. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Q. And A.: David Shambaugh on the Risks to Chinese Communist Rule". 15 March 2015. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  4. ^ Elliott School of International Affairs, Faculty: David Shambaugh Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Brookings Institution, ‘Experts: David Shambaugh' Archived November 9, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Elliott School of International Affairs Briefing - Kudos ESIA Briefing Archived 2014-02-21 at the Wayback Machine Feb 2014
  7. ^ "The Task Force on U.S.-China Policy". Asia Society. Archived from the original on 8 January 2024. Retrieved 29 January 2024.