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Quansheng Zhao

Professor
School of International Service

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    Director, Center for Asian Studies
  • Dr. Quansheng Zhao is Professor of international relations and Director of Center for Asian Studies at American University; serving as Director of the Division of Comparative and Regional Studies for three terms (1999-2008). Zhao received his B.A. from Beijing University, M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. After a one-year postdoctoral research at Harvard University, he served for many years as Research Associate at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.

    A specialist in international relations and comparative politics focusing on East Asia, Dr. Zhao is the author of Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, winner of the Best Academic Book Award by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Korea), and Japanese Policymaking (Oxford University Press/Praeger, selected as "Outstanding Academic Book" by Choice). His most recent edited book is Managing the China Challenge: Perspectives from the Globe. His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. He has also testified on China’s economic development at the U. S. Congress, and served as a consultant for the United Nations.

  • Degrees

    PhD, University of California, Berkeley; MA, University of California, Berkeley; BA, Beijing University
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Teaching

  • Fall 2012

    • SIS-419 Adv Topics in Int'l Relations: U.S.-China Relations
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    • SIS-419 Adv Topics in Int'l Relations: East Asia in Transition
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Research Interests

Dr. Zhao's research and teaching interests are in comparative politics and international relations, including foreign policymaking, political development, process of democratization, international relations theory, national security, and international political economy. His primary geographical focus is on China, Japan, and other parts of the Asia-Pacific area.

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

  • The Outstanding Academic Book selected by Choice in 1994 for Japanese Policymaking
  • Who's Who in the World
  • Who's Who in America
  • Who's Who among Asian Americans
  • Directory of American Scholars
  • 1000 Great Americans
  • Outstanding People of the 20th Century
  • 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century
  • International Who's Who of Contemporary Achievement
  • International Directory of Distinguished Leadership  

Selected Publications

      
  • "China's Foreign Policy Think-Tanks and Various Channels of Policy Input." With the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, January 2010.
  • "Managing the Challenges of Complex Interdependence: China and the United States in the Era of Globalization," in Asian Politics and Policy, with Guoli Liu, January/March 2010.
  • "China's Japan Policy: Beijing's View of the U.S.-Japan Alliance" in Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy: Diplomacy, Globalization, and the Next World Power, eds., Yufan Hao, C. X. George Wei, and Lowell Dittmer, The University Press of Kentucky (2009).
  • Managing the China Challenge: Global Perspectives, co-editor with Guoli Liu, Routledge, 2008.
  • "Managing the Challenge: Power Shift in U.S.-China Relations," Managing the China Challenge: Perspectives from the Globe, eds., Quansheng Zhao and Guoli Liu. Routledge, 2008.
  • "China Rising: Theoretical Understanding and Global Response," in Managing the China Challenge: Perspectives from the Globe, editor with Guoli Liu, Routledge, 2008.
  • "Co-Management as a New Security Framework: China-Japan-U.S. and the Cases of North Korea and Taiwan&amp," in Sino-Japanese Relations: The Need for Conflict Prevention and Management, eds. Niklas Swanstr and Ryosei Kokubun. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
  • Globalization and East Asia, co-editor with Tai Wan-chin, Shiying Chubanshe, 2007.
  • Future Trends in East Asian International Relations, editor, Frank Cass, 2002.
  • Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy: The Micro-Macro Linkage Approach, Oxford University Press, 1996 (Award of Best Academic Book by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Korea).
  • Japanese Policymaking: The Politics Behind Politics, Oxford University Press/Praeger, 1993 (selected by Choice in 1994 as Outstanding Academic Book).   
  • Politics of Divided Nations: China, Korea, Germany and Vietnam, co-editor with Robert Sutter, University of Maryland Law School, 1991.

AU Expert

Area of Expertise: Politics and foreign policy of China and Japan; international relations; fluent in Chinese and Japanese

Additional Information: Quansheng Zhao is the author of Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy (Oxford, 1996) and Japanese Policymaking (Oxford/Praeger, 1993) and editor of Future Trends in East Asian International Relations (Frank Cass, 2002). He has testified before Congress and is a consultant for the United Nations.
 

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