Michael D. Swaine

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Michael D. Swaine
NationalityAmerican
Other names史文
Education GWU (BA), Harvard (MA, PhD)
OccupationEast Asia Analyst
Employer Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

Michael Dalzell Swaine (born March 11, 1951) is an expert in China and East Asian security studies. Swaine is a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Prior to joining the Quincy Institute, Swaine was a Senior Associate in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Before joining the Carnegie Endowment as co-director of the China Program in 2001, Swaine worked for 12 years at the RAND Corporation, where he was appointed as the first recipient of the RAND Center for Asia-Pacific Policy Chair in Northeast Asian Security. [1]

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Education

Swaine holds a BA from George Washington University and a MA and PhD in government from Harvard. He studied Mandarin and Japanese at Stanford University's Inter-University Center for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei and Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo. [1]

Career

Swaine is a regular contributor to the China Leadership Monitor, a journal published by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. [2] He has published several books, monographs, and articles related to U.S.-China relations, East Asian international relations, the Chinese military, Taiwan, Japan, and Chinese foreign policy and grand strategy. An article in a leading Chinese foreign affairs journal identified Swaine as one of the four major scholars in the third generation of American "China watchers," along with David M. Lampton, Harry Harding, and Jonathan D. Pollack. [3]

Swaine has conducted several joint research studies with institutions and scholars based in China, Taiwan, and Japan. He coordinates the U.S.-China Crisis Management Program (sponsored in part by the China Foundation for International and Strategic Studies (Chinese :中国国际战略研究基金会; pinyin :Zhōngguó Guójì Zhànlüè Yánjiū Jījīn Huì) which brings together scholars and practitioners from both countries to analyze past crises and discuss how to manage future crises in the relationship. Swaine's 2006 book Managing Sino-American Crises: Case Studies and Analysis (with Zhang Tuosheng and Danielle F. S. Cohen) compiles several of the papers and analyses that arose from a 2004 conference in Beijing. A book review by Steven Goldstein published in The China Quarterly called this program "clearly one of the more ambitious joint Sino-American social science projects that has been undertaken since scholarly contacts were restored in the 1980s." [4]

Swaine coordinated an annual Conference on People's Liberation Army Affairs which was co-sponsored by the Taipei-based Center for Advanced Policy Studies (Chinese :中華民國高等政策研究協會; pinyin :Zhōnghuá Mínguó Gāoděng Zhèngcè Yánjiū Xiéhuì), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the RAND Corporation, and the National Defense University. The 22nd annual Conference on PLA Affairs was held in Taipei, Taiwan, from October 27 to November 1, 2010, with a keynote address by Ma Ying-jeou, president of Taiwan. [5] [6]

Before starting at RAND in 1989, Swaine worked at a private sector firm and studied as a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley's Center for Chinese Studies and as a research associate at Harvard. [1]

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