Professor Gregory John Moore | |
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Born | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
Other names | 莫凯歌 (Mo Kaige) |
President of the Association of Chinese Political Studies | |
In office 2020–2022 | |
Head of the School of International Studies,University of Nottingham Ningbo China | |
In office 2015–2020 | |
President | Yang Fujia |
Succeeded by | Grant Dawson (acting) David E. Kiwuwa |
Personal details | |
Children | 3 sons [1] |
Education | |
Education | Concordia College (BA) University of Virginia (MA) University of Denver (PhD) |
Thesis | Human Nature,Collective Society and International Relations in the Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr (1991) Tiananmen,Taiwan and Belgrade:The Construction of Conflict in Sino-American Relations,1989,1995–1996,and 1999 (2004) |
Doctoral advisor | Jack Donnelly,then Suisheng Zhao |
Philosophical work | |
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Main interests |
Gregory J. Moore is an American political scientist specializing in international relations,international security and Chinese politics and foreign policy. He teaches international politics and policy at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville,Virginia. He was previously a Stanton Fellow at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs,CO. Prior to that he was a professor of global studies and politics at Colorado Christian University,and taught political science and international relations at universities in China such as Zhejiang University and University of Nottingham Ningbo for roughly a decade.
Moore was born in Minneapolis,Minnesota.
In 1987,he earned a bachelor's degree in art and a minor in English from Concordia College in Moorhead,Minnesota. During his undergraduate studies,Moore spent a semester as an exchange student at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania,which encouraged his interest in international affairs.
In 1991,he earned a master's degree in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia with a thesis on the thought of Reinhold Niebuhr.
After spending two years in China teaching international trade and then another year studying Chinese full time,Moore pursued a PhD in international studies at the University of Denver. During his doctoral studies,Moore focused on China and East Asia and became the assistant director of the university's Center for China-U.S. Cooperation. In 2004,he earned his doctorate with a doctorate on China-U.S. relations under the supervision of Chinese political scientist Suisheng Zhao and theorists Jack Donnelly and Paul Viotti. He studied Chinese for a year and a half in China during his doctoral studies before graduating with his PhD.
Moore's research interests include international relations theory,constructivism in particular,international security,the North Korean nuclear issue,Sino-American Relations,East Asian studies,and foreign policy analysis of China and the United States. [2] He is the author/editor of three books on international relations and has published many academic journal articles,book chapters and policy essays.
Moore has been affiliated with the following organizations:
Moore is a fluent Chinese speaker, [3] and is married to Chenchen,from Zhejiang,China,and has three sons. In 2011,he got a Chinese driver's license. [4]
In China,Moore's Chinese name is 莫凯歌(Mo Kaige). [5]
According to Moore,as a political scientist,he tries to get a balanced view of politics by reading liberal newspapers such as The New York Times and Washington Post,as well as conservative newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal and The Washington Times .
I got a Chinese driver's license last year and started to really immerse myself in Chinese society (我去年办了中国的驾照,开始真正沉浸在中国的社会里面)
宁波诺丁汉大学国际关系系主任莫凯歌(Gregory Moore)副教授