Sigur Center for Asian Studies
China Policy Program
China Policy Program Director Professor David Shambaugh meets with State Councillor and Director of the Central Committee Foreign Affairs Office, Dai Bingguo, 2008.
Overview
The China Policy Program was established in 1998 as one of several constituent programs in the Elliott School of International Affairs, and it is affiliated with the Sigur Center for Asian Studies. The founding Director is David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science & International Affairs, who is a leading international authority on contemporary China and Asian affairs. The China Policy Program was created to build upon the Elliott School's longstanding expertise and involvement in U.S.-China relations and contemporary Chinese affairs and to serve primarily as an outreach program to the policy community in Washington, officials and China specialists around the world, the media, and the public.
Specifically, the China Policy Program is involved in the following types of activities:
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Sponsoring occasional public lectures and panel discussions open to the public and GW community.
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Sponsoring private scholarly and policy-related meetings of China specialists and government officials.
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Sponsoring the publication of scholarly books related to Chinese affairs.
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Sponsoring discussion meetings of Washington's leading China experts drawn from academia, think tanks, the U.S. intelligence community, Congressional staff, and executive branch officials.
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Sponsoring "policy dialogues" of a reasonably high-level, with participants from China, Europe, and Asia.
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Receiving and briefing visiting delegations from Asia, Europe, and the United States on issues related to China.
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Hosting in residence individual officials, scholars, and China specialists from around the world.
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Sponsoring media briefings, pegged to current and medium-term events in China and U.S.-China relations.
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Sponsoring tailored briefings for Executive Branch officials, Congressional staff, and Members of Congress related to China and U.S.-China relations.
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Sponsoring tailored briefings for members of the corporate community related to China.
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Convening "study groups" to assist authors in revising book and article manuscripts.
In recent years the China Policy Program has sponsored activities in all of these areas. For further information please contact the Director, Professor David Shambaugh, at 202-994-5887 or shambaug@gwu.edu.
Recent Events
- "Sixth American-European Dialogue on China" (June 2009). The sixth in an ongoing series of Track 1.5 transatlantic dialogues concerning American and European relations with the People's Republic of China. Co-sponsored with the Asia Centre at Sciences Po in Paris, France.
- "Fourth Dialogue on U.S.-China Relations in a Global Context" (May 2009). The fourth in a series of Track 1.5 Sino-American dialogues concerning US-China mutual interests and cooperation in world affairs. Co-sponsored with the China Institute of International Studies. Papers can be found here.
- "Third U.S. Think Tank China Specialists" Delegation to China (May 2009). For the third consecutive year, at the invitation of the invitation of the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs, Professor David Shambaugh lead a delegation of leading Washington and New York-based China experts to Beijing for a week of intensive consultations with a wide range of institutions in the State Council, People's Liberation Army, Communist Party of China (CPC). This year's delegation included former Ambassador to China Stapleton S. Roy (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), Dr. Orville Schell (Asia Society), Dr. Nicholas Lardy (Peterson Institute of International Economics), Dr. Michael Swaine (Carnegie Endowment of International Peace), and Dr. Evan Feigenbaum (Council on Foreign Relations).
- "The Role of China in Transatlantic Relations" (February 2008). A Track 2 conference on the role of China in US-European relations and respective American and European approaches to and relations with China. See the conference report "American and European Relations with China: Advancing Common Agendas."
- "The New Asia International Relations of Asia" (June 2007). A scholarly conference that convened leading international experts from three continents to assess the changing dynamics and structure of international relations across the Asian region. A state-of-the-art textbook was published as a result.
Selected Publications
The China Policy Program supports occasional scholarly and policy-related publications. Recent publications include:
- David Shambaugh and Michael Yahuda (eds), International Relations in Asia (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).
- David Shambaugh and Gudrun Wacker (eds.)) Transatlantic Relations and China: Deepening the Cooperation (Berlin: German Institute of International and Security Affairs, 2008).
- David Shambaugh, Eberhard Sandschneider, and Zhou Hong (eds.), China-Europe Relations: Perceptions, Policies & Prospects (London: Routledge Press, 2007).
- Robert F. Ash, David Shambaugh, and Seiichiro Takagi (eds.), China Watching: Perspectives from Europe, Japan & the United States (London: Routledge Press, 2007).
- David Shambaugh (ed.), Power Shift: China & Asia's New Dynamics, (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2005).
- David Shambaugh, European and American Approaches Toward China: Different Beds, Same Dreams? (Washington, D.C.: George Washington University Sigur Center for Asian Studies Asia Paper No. 15, 2002).
- Ramon Myers, Michel Oksenberg, and David Shambaugh (eds.), Making China Policy: Lessons from the Bush and Clinton Administrations (Lanham, MD: Roman & Littlefield, 2001).
- David Shambaugh (ed.), Is China Unstable? (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000).
- David Shambaugh (ed.), The Modern Chinese State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Upcoming Events
Context Shapes Theory: Distinctive Trajectories of IR Scholarship in Asia
Tuesday, Nov. 24 | 12:30 p.m.
Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor
Taiwan, Asia and the Global Economic Crisis
Wednesday, Dec. 2 | 12:00 p.m.
Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor
Language Tea Time
Thursdays | 4:00 p.m.
The Chung-wen Shih Conference Room, Suite 503
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Contact Us
Phone: 202.994.5886
Fax: 202.994.6096
Email: gsigur@gwu.edu
Address:
Sigur Center for Asian Studies
1957 E Street, N.W., Suite 503
Washington, D.C. 20052