David Shambaugh | |
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 Shambaugh speaking in 2015 | |
| Born | David Leigh Shambaugh |
| Citizenship | American |
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| Title | Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & International Affairs; founding Director of the China Policy Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University (1996—) |
| Board member of | National Bureau of Asian Research’s Board of Advisors; National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (2008—2014); American Hearing Research Foundation (2008—); Editorial Board of The Washington Quarterly and other academic journals |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University (BA in East Asian Studies) Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University (MA in International Affairs) ContentsUniversity of Michigan (PhD in Political Science) |
| Thesis | China's America Watchers' Images of the United States, 1972-1986 (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michel Oksenberg and Allen S. Whiting |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political science,international relations,Chinese studies |
| Sub-discipline | China's domestic politics;Contemporary Chinese history;China's foreign relations;China's military and security;U.S. foreign policy;international relations of Asia |
| Institutions | Elliott School of International Affairs,George Washington University;School of Oriental &African Studies,University of London (1987-1996) |
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David Leigh Shambaugh (born January 18,1953) is an American political scientist,Sinologist and policy advisor. He currently serves as the Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies,Political Science,and International Affairs at George Washington University,where he is also the director of the China Policy Program at GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution (2024—). He was previously a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. [1] [2] [3] Shambaugh served in the Department of State,and on the White House National Security Council staff during the presidency of Jimmy Carter. [4] [5] As an author,Shambaugh has authored 12 and edited 21 books,and over 200 scholarly articles and newspaper op-eds.
