SUSAN L. SHIRK
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California 92093-0518
PH: (858) 822-4349; FAX: (858) 534-7655
sshirk@ucsd.edu
CURRICULUM VITAEEDUCATION
Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1974 (Political Science)
M.A.
University of California, Berkeley, June 1968 (Asian Studies)
B.A.
Mount Holyoke College, 1967 (Political Science)Princeton University, Critical Languages Program, 1965–66
EMPLOYMENT2007Ho Miu Lam Endowed Chair in China and Pacific Relations, Graduate School ofInternational Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS), University of California, San
Diego
2006–
Director, UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC)
2000–
Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS),
University of California, San Diego
2000–06
Research Director for International Security, Institute on Global Conflict andCooperation, University of California
1997–2000 Deputy Assistant Secretary with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, andMongolia, East Asia and Pacific Bureau, United States Department of State
1992–97
Director, UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
1991–92
Acting Director, UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
1991–
Professor, IRPS, University of California, San Diego
1991–97
Professor, Political Science Department, University of California, San Diego
1987–
Associate Professor, IRPS, University of California, San Diego
1981–
Associate Professor, Political Science Department, University of California, San
Diego
1975–81
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, University of California, San
Diego
1974–75
Assistant Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin
1973–74
Assistant for Educational Planning to the Executive Dean of Undergraduate
Studies, University of Texas at Dallas
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2008-13
Department of Defense, Minerva Grant, The Evolving Relationship Between
Technology and National Security in China: Innovation, Defense
Transformation, and China’s Place in the Global Technology Order2009-10
MacArthur Foundation, The Future of Multilateral Security Cooperation in
Northeast Asia: Exploring Regional Security Architecture and the EconomicsSecurity Nexus.

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1967–68

Arthur Ross Fellow, Center on US-China Relations, Asia Society, New York City
McCormick Tribune Fund, Changing Media, Changing China
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
Carnegie Corporation, Track-Two Diplomacy in Northeast Asia
National Science Foundation, NSF IGERT Program: Public Policy and Nuclear
Threats: Training the Next Generation
U.S. Department of State, Assessing Virtual Diplomacy in Northeast Asia
Smith Richardson Foundation, China and Its Provinces: The Impact of China’s
Opening on Economic Integration
U.S. Institute of Peace and Intel, Virtual Dialogue in Northeast Asia: A Virtual
Research Center
U.S. Department of Energy (Los Alamos), Winter Seminar on Internal Relations:
Security, China, and Russia
MacArthur Foundation, Institutional Fellowships on Peace and Internal
Cooperation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Core Research Program on Building
Regional Environmental Cooperation
Rockefeller Foundation, Comparative Regional Approaches/Nuclear
Nonproliferation
Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission, the Economic Structure of Asia: Competing orComplementary Networks
U.S. Institute for Peace, China’s Maritimes Jurisdictional Disputes
U.S. Department of Energy, Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue
Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The China Circle: Regional
Perspectives on Evolving Relations Among Taiwan, Hong Kong-Macao, andChina
Center for Global Partnership/Japan Foundation, The United States and Japan in
Asia
Henry Luce Foundation, Grant for Collaborative Research with the Tianjin
Academy of Social Sciences
Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People’s Republic of China,
National Academy of Sciences (declined).
University of California, Grant for Research on the Pacific Rim
University of California, Grant for Research on the Pacific Rim
Rockefeller Foundation International Relations Fellowship
Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People’s Republic of China,
National Academy of Sciences
Institute for the Study of World Politics Research Fellowship
SSRC-ACLS Joint Committee on Contemporary China Research Grant
Peace Fellow, The Hoover Institute National Fellows Program
SSRC Foreign Area Fellowship
National Science Foundation Fellowship
National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2007Member, Advisory Committee of the Universities Service Centre for China Studies

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Member, UC- Santa Barbara Department of Political Science External Review
Committee
2007Member, Senior Advisory Committee, UC School of Global Health
2007Member, Advisory Committee, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
2007Member, Advisory Committee, Asia Society
2004–
Chair, External Review, Institute on International Studies, Stanford University
2002
Member, Task Force on U.S. Korea Policy, Center for International Policy,
November
2002–2003 Member and Chair, Economics Sub Group, Task Force on Chinese Military Power,
Council on Foreign Relations
2001–
Editorial Board, the American Asian Review2001 Organizer and Chair, “Cross
Strait Relations After WTO,” 30th Sino-American Conference on Contemporary
China, IRPS, May
2000–
Faculty Coordinator, IRPS Dean’s Roundtable
2000–
Advisory Committee, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Universities Service
Centre1996–
Member and emeritus member, Aspen Strategy Group
1996–97
Editorial Board, Communist and Post-Communist Studies
1995–97
Member, Board of Trustees, U.S.–Japan Foundation
1995–97
Member, Defense Policy Board (advises U.S. Secretary of Defense)
1995–97
Member, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London
1995–
Editorial Board, the China Quarterly
1995–
Editorial Board, Modern China
1995–
Editorial Board, Journal of Contemporary China
1995–97
Member, Board of Directors, Pacific Council on International Policy
1994–97
Member, Board of Governors, East-West Center
1993–
Organizer and Chair, Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue
1993–
Founding member of USCSCAP (United States Committee of the Council for
Security and Cooperation in the Pacific)
1992–
Member, Atlantic Council-NCUSCR committee, “At a Crossroads in American
Policy toward China: Rebuilding a Consensus”
1992–97
Editorial Board, American Political Science Review
1991–
Member, Council on Foreign Relations
1987–88
Member, Committee on International Political Science, American Political Science
Association
1985–86
Chair, Curriculum Planning Committee, IRPS, University of California, San Diego
1982–91
Member of the China Council of the Asia Society
1982–91
Member of Executive Committee, National Committee on U.S.–China Relations
1977–94
Member of Board of Directors, National Committee on U.S.–China Relations
1982–84
Chief Academic Consultant, National Public Radio Course on China and Japan
1980, 1995 Consultant, the World Bank
1978–79
Member of the United Nations Association National Policy Panel to Study U.S.–
China Relations
1978
Consultant, N.B.C. film documentary on education in the People’s Republic ofChina, September
PUBLICATIONSSusan L. Shirk- Page 4 -BOOKSChina: Fragile Superpower. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Ed., Power and Prosperity: Economics and Security Linkages in the Asia-Pacific (with Christopher
Twomey). Transaction Publishers, 1996.
How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC’s Foreign Trade and Investment Reforms.
Brookings Institution, 1994.
The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China. University of California Press, 1993.
Ed., The Challenge of China and Japan: Politics and Development in East Asia. Praeger, 1985.
Competitive Comrades: Career Incentives and Student Strategies in China. University of California
Press, 1982.
SCHOLARLY ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS“Trends in PRC–Taiwan Relations and United States Policy Responses.” In Sources of Conflictand Cooperation in the Taiwan Strait, Zheng Yongnian and Rayomond Ray-kuo Wu, eds.
Singapore: World Scientific, 2006.
“One-Sided Rivalry: China’s Perceptions and Policies Toward India.” In The India–China
Relationship: What the U.S. Needs to Know, Francine Frankel and Harry Harding, eds.
Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2004.
“Congressional Politics and U.S. China Policy 1996–2000.” In The Uncertain Superpower: Domestic
Dimensions of U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War, Bernhard May and Michaela Honicke
Moore, eds. Leske + Budrich, 2003.
“The 16th CCP Congress and Leadership Transition in China” (with Gang Lin). Asia Program
Special Report no. 105, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, September
2002.
“Chinese Nationalism and Policies Toward the United States, Japan, and Taiwan.” The Aspen
Institute Congressional Program on U.S.–China Relations, 2002.
“China’s Perception of India: Brief Comments.” In The Rise of China in Asia: Security Implications,
Carolyn W. Pumphrey, ed. Strategic Studies Institute, 2002.
“The Delayed Institutionalization of Leadership Politics” In The Nature of Chinese Politics, From
Mao to Jiang, Jonathan Unger, ed. M.E. Sharpe, 2002.
“What Kind of Rising Power is China?” The Aspen Institute Congressional Program on U.S.–
China Relations, 2001.
“Will the Institutionalization of Party Leadership Survive the 2002–03 Succession?” The China
Journal 45 (January 2001).

Susan L. Shirk- Page 5 -“Asia-Pacific Regional Security: Balance of Power or Concert of Powers?” In Regional Orders:
Building Security in a New World, David A. Lake and Patrick Morgan, eds. Pennsylvania
State University Press, 1997.
“Internationalization and China’s Economic Reforms.” In Internationalization and Domestic
Politics, Robert O. Keohane and Helen V. Milner, eds. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

“Economic Interdependence and Political Détente: The Evolution of Relations Between
the China Mainland and Taiwan” (with Jia Qingguo). In Power and Prosperity:
Economics and Security Linkages in the Asia-Pacific, Susan Shirk and Christopher
Twomey, eds. Transaction Publishers, 1996.
“Beyond Particularism: The Challenges of the Next Stage of China’s Foreign Economic
Reforms.” In Economic Cooperation and Challenges in the Pacific, Joint U.S.–Korea
Academic Studies vol. 5, Korea Economic Institute of America, Washington, D.C., 1995.
“Chinese Views on Asia-Pacific Regional Security Cooperation.” NBR Analysis 5, no. 5, National
Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle, December 1994.
“The Chinese Political System and the Political Strategy of Economic Reform.” In Bureaucracy,
Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao China, David M. Lampton and Kenneth G.
Lieberthal, eds. University of California Press, 1992.
“Chinese Foreign Policy After Tian An Men.” In Beyond the Cold War in the Pacific. IGGC, 1991.
“The Domestic Roots of China’s Post-Tiananmen Foreign Policy.” Harvard International Review
13, 2 (winter 1990–91): 32–34. Reprinted in World Politics 91/92, Suzanne P. Ogden, ed.
Guilford, Conn.: Duskin Publishing Group, 1991, 124–27.
“Playing to the Provinces: Deng Xiaoping’s Political Strategy of Economic Reform.” Studies in
Comparative Communism 23 nos. 3/4 (autumn/winter 1990): 227–58. Revised andrepublished in The Chinese and Their Future, Thomas Robinson, ed. American EnterpriseInstitute, 1993.
“The Acquisition of Foreign Technology in China: The Bargaining Game.” In Technological
Challenge in The Asia-Pacific Economy, Hadi Soesastro and Mari Pangestu, eds. Sydney:
Allen and Unwin, 1990.
“The Politics of Chinese Industrial Reform.” In Remaking the Economic Institutions of Socialism:
China and Eastern Europe, Victor Nee and David Stark, eds. Stanford University Press,
1989.
“The Central Economic Bureaucracy in China.” In Economic Reform in China: Report of theAmerican Economists Study Team to the People’s Republic of China, Janet A. Cady, ed.
National Committee on U.S.–China Relations, 1985.

Susan L. Shirk- Page 6 -“The Politics of Economic Reform in China.” In Economic Reform in Post-Mao China, Elizabeth
Perry and Christine Wong, eds., Harvard University Press, 1985.
“The Decline of Virtuocracy in China.” In Class and Social Stratification in Post-Revolution China,
William Watson, ed. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
“The Evolution of Chinese Education: Stratification and Meritocracy in the 1980s.” In China: The
1980s Era, Norton Ginsburg, ed. University of Chicago Press, 1984.
“The Domestic Political Dimensions of China’s Foreign Economic Relations.” In China and theWorld: Chinese Foreign Policy in the Post-Mao Era, Samuel S. Kim, ed. Westview Press,
1984.
“The Problem of Partial Reform” (with James B. Stepanek). The China Business Review 10, 6(November–December 1983).
“Bureaucratic Competition.” The China Business Review 10, 6 (November–December 1983).
“Recent Chinese Labor Policies and the Transformation of Industrial Organization in China.”
The China Quarterly 88 (December 1981).
“`Going Against the Tide: Political Dissent in China.” Survey 24 (winter 1979).
“Dissent in China and the Soviet Union.” Studies in Comparative Communism 12, nos. 2–3(summer–autumn 1979).
“Educational Reform and Political Backlash: Recent Changes in Chinese Educational Policy.”
Comparative Education Review 23, 2 (June 1979).
“Work Experience in Chinese Education.” Comparative Education 14, 1 (March 1978).
“Human Rights: What About China?” Foreign Policy (winter 1977–78).
“The 1963 Temporary Work Regulations for Full-Time Middle and Primary Schools:
Commentary and Translation.” China Quarterly (July–September 1973).
“Has China Changed?” Foreign Policy (spring 1973).
OTHER ARTICLES“The Legacy of Tiananmen for Chinese Politics,” Huffington Post, June 3, 2009.
“The Stimulus China Needs: Reform the economy to boost consumption.” (with Stephen Greenand Zhang Bin) The Wall Street Journal Asia, April 30th 2009.
“China just might surprise the U.S. on climate change” (with Stephan Haggard). The San
Francisco Chronicle, B9, May 28, 2008.

Susan L. Shirk- Page 7 -“After Hu.” The Wall Street Journal-Asia, October 12-14, 2007.
“Bound to China,” Washington Post Book Reviews, August 26, 2007.
“Deciphering the North Korea Deal” (with Stephan Haggard). Washington Post Outlook Section,
February 18, 2007.
“The North Korea Nuclear Deal, Will Our Own Domestic Politics Torpedo It?” (with Stephan
Haggard). San Diego Union Tribune, February 16, 2007.
“China Gets Tough with North Korea.” Yale Global, October 26, 2006.
“Informal Diplomacy Continues in Stalled North Korea Talks.” San Diego Union-Tribune, April
21, 2006.
“Is China Losing its Soft Touch?” United Press International, June 26, 2004.
“Washington Must Change Cross-Strait Policy Says Expert.” Straits Time Interactive, June 22,
2004.
“Under Global Spotlight, China’s New Leaders Have to Reform.” Yale Global, May 12, 2003.
“The Mixed Messages of the Bush–Jiang Meeting.” In China Cross Talk: The American Debate Over
China Policy since Normalization, Scott Kennedy, ed. Roman and Littlefield, 2003.
“U.S.–Taiwan Relations.” In China Cross Talk: The American Debate Over China Policy Since
Normalization, Scott Kennedy, ed. Roman and Littlefield, 2003.
“A New North Korea?” Washington Post, October 22, 2002.
“Opening Up China.” Financial Times, May 14, 2002.
“The New Relationship.” San Diego Union-Tribune, October 25, 2001.
“Korea Policy in Transition: Will Confrontation Win Out Over Negotiation?” San Diego UnionTribune, March 22, 2001.
“Look What China Could Do if It Changed Tactics” (with Michel Oksenberg). International
Herald Tribune, September 11, 2000.
“The Political Logic of China’s Economic Decentralization.” the World Bank, February 1995.
“America Sits Out at Its Own Risk.” Los Angeles Times, November 14, 1993.
“The Party Uses Its Fist and Loses Its Grip.” Los Angeles Times, June 6, 1989.
“An Organized Resistance, Thanks to Mao.” Wall Street Journal, May 25, 1989

Susan L. Shirk- Page 8 -“The Root of All Evil in China.” Los Angeles Times, October 22, 1985.
“Economic Reform in China: Still Moving Toward Market Socialism.” The New York Times,
September 29, 1985.
“Consuming Masses Are Held Captive by ‘China Inc.’.” Wall Street Journal, April 22, 1983.
“The Politics of Education in Post-Mao China.” The China Council of the Asia Society, April
1979.
The Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars. China: Inside the People’s Republic. Bantam Books,
1972 (author of chapter on education).
SELECTION OF ACADEMIC PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS"The 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Protests: Examining the Significance ofthe 1989 Demonstrations in China and Implications for U.S. Policy" CongressionalExecutive Commission on China, hearing held on June 4, 2009.

“US-China Relations: The Domestic Political Challenge,” Workshop on China’s New
Role in a Turbulent World, Stanford University, May 8, 2009.
“The Information Revolution in China,” Weatherhead Center, Columbia University, April 22,
2009.
“The Information Revolution in China,” 49th Annual Edward H. Hume Memorial Lecture,
Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University, April 7, 2009.
“The Political and Economic Situation in North Korea: Implications for U.S. Policy,” Universityof California Center in Washington DC, March 30, 2009,“Shifting Paradigms on Both Sides of the Global Economic Imbalance,” BrookingsCaijing Symposium, January 13, 2009.
”China and the Global Financial Crisis,” Asia Society, New York, December 8, 2008.
“US-China Economic and Political relations,” IR/PS-Tsinghua symposium, Beijing,
November 10, 2008
“China: Fragile Superpower,” Asia in the 21st Century, Nordic Institute of AsianStudies, Copenhagen, September 16, 2008.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego, CA, August 6,
2008.

Susan L. Shirk- Page 9 -“China’s Global Presence,” Institute for Fiduciary Education, Carlsbad, CA, July 14,
2008.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” UCSD Emeriti Association, June 4, 2008.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” San Diego World Affairs Council, June 3, 2008.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” Dallas World Affairs Council, May 22, 2008.
Speaker, “What China Will Show the World during the Olympics and Beyond,” The 25th
Annual Congress-Bundestag Seminar, The Congressional Study Group on
Germany, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 26, 2008.
Seminar “What Does China Want? The Intensions and Desires of a New World Power,”
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, May 7, 2008.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” Center for National Policy, Washington, DC, May 7, 2008.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” Destination China Conference, Rady School ofManagement, University of California, May 5, 2008.
U.S.-China Economic Relations Panel Discussion, Drake University, April 14, 2008.
China: Challenge and Change Conference, The Harvard University Asia Center, April
10, 2008.
“The Foreign Policy Implications of China’s Political Fragility,” The Gaston Sigur
Memorial Lecture at George Washington University, April 8, 2008.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” China’s New Leadership: The Outlook for Politics andPolicy Conference, The Brookings Institute and Stanford University, April 7,
2008.
“Political Reform and the Fragility of Communist Rule in China,” Prospects For Political
Liberalization in China, Aspen Institute, March 26, 2008.
Developments on the Korean Peninsula: The Alliance and Elections, UCSD IR/PS,
March 12, 2008.
Lessons Learned From Former Rogues: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Libya and China
Panel Discussant, U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Rogue States: Engage, Isolate orStrike? Conference, UCLA Burkle Center, March 11, 2008.

Susan L. Shirk- Page 10 -“China: Fragile Superpower,” Princeton University, March 10, 2008.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” Keynote Speaker, Rise of China Conference, Mount Holyoke
College, March 7, 2008.
“How China’s Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise,” Q.E.D. Luncheon, La Jolla,
California, February 12, 2008.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” University of California, Sacramento Center, Sacramento,
California, February 7, 2008.
“China, Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise,”
University of California, Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley, California,
February 6, 2008.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” University of California, San Diego Athena Bio-Science Group,
San Diego, California, January 24, 2008.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois,
December 3, 2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” Council on Foreign Relations, Houston, Texas, November 8, 2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” Asia Society, Houston, Texas, November 8, 2007.
“Changing Media, Changing Politics,” Worldwide University Network, San Diego, California,
October 18, 2007.
“How China’s Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise,” UCSD Near You Alumni,
October 16-17, 2007
“China: Fragile Superpower,” University of Southern California, U.S.-China Institute, October
11, 2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower: How Chinese Leaders Think & What they Fear,” The Wednesday
Club, San Diego, October 10, 07.
“China’s Political Future, American Association for Chinese Studies, Co-Sponsored by
Richmond World Affairs, October 5, 2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” The Women’s Foreign Policy Group, October 4, 2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies,
October 3, 2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” The Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations, September 5, 2007.

Susan L. Shirk- Page 11 -China: Fragile Superpower,” World Affairs Council, Northern California, June 28, 2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” Authors@Google Program, San Francisco, California, June 27,
2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower: How China’s Internal Politics Could Derail It’s Peaceful Rise,”
Politics and Prose, Washington, D.C., June 18, 2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” The Graduate School of International Relations and PacificStudies, University of California, San Diego, May 30, 2007.
“China’s Internal Fragility and International Risks,” Los Angeles World Affairs Council, May
22, 2007.
“How China’s Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise,” Texas A&M, April 25, 2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” Pacific Council, Seattle, Washington, April 24, 2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, California, April 2“China: Fragile Superpower,” University of Texas at Austin, April 20, 2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 16, 2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” World Affairs Council, Washington, D.C., April 12, 2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” Chicago Council on Global Affairs, April 9, 2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” The Carnegie Council, New York, New York, April 5, 2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” Goldman Sachs, New York, New York, April 4, 2007.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” Claremont McKenna College, Los Angeles, California, April 2,
2007.
“China’s Rise,” Pacific Council members’ weekend, January 27, 2007.
“The Echo Chamber of Chinese Nationalism,” International Political Science Association,
Fukuoka, Japan, July 10, 2006.
“The Politics of International Trade,” Symposium to Honor Roger Noll, Stanford University,
April 19, 2006.
“Mass Media and Center-Provincial Relations in China,” Washington University in St. Louis,
April 13, 2006.
“Educating Students for the Pacific Century,” Scripps College Board retreat, March 25, 2006.

Susan L. Shirk- Page 12 -“Dialogue with Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill,” Kroc Center, University of California, San
Diego, January 1, 2006.
“China: Fragile Superpower,” University of California, San Diego Foundation, December 9,2005.
“Track Two Diplomacy in Northeast Asia,” Institute for Foreign Affairs and National Security(Seoul) roundtable, November 22, 2005.
“Chinese Institutions and Economic Policy-Making, Political-Economy Program, Beijing
University, November 18, 2005.
“East Asian Economic Relations,” Beijing Forum, November 17, 2005.
“Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy,” U.S. State Senate Presidents, Beijing, September 20,
2005.
“Anti-Japanese Protest in China,” Knight Journalism Fellows, May 4, 2005.
“U.S.–China Relations,” Stanford Law School, March 9, 2005.
“China Rising: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in China,” Center for Advanced Study in
the Behavioral Sciences, March 4, 2005.
“Track Two Diplomacy in Asia,” Carnegie Corporation, December 16, 2004.
“The Chinese Political System,” Stanford Business School, December 3, 2004.
“U.S. Policies Toward Asia,” Pacific Council members’ weekend, November 13, 2004.
“Leadership Politics in China,” Council on Foreign Relations national conference call,
September 23, 2004.
“Trends in PRC–Taiwan Relations and U.S. Policy Responses,” IR-PS Deans Roundtable, June21, 2004.
“China’s Reform Experience,” Centro De Investigacion para el Desarrollo, Mexico City, June 4,
2004.
“The North Korean Nuclear Crisis,” Mt. Holyoke College, April 15, 2004.
“Chinese Nationalism and Foreign Policy,” Watson Institute, Brown University, March 20, 2003.
“China’s Multilateral Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific, hearing of the U.S.–China Economic andSecurity Commission, IRPS, February 12, 2004.
“The United States Is Marginalizing Itself in Northeast Asia,” UCLA International Institute,
May 16, 2003.

Susan L. Shirk- Page 13 -“Recent Trends in Chinese Foreign Policy,” Director’s Colloquium, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, October 24, 2002.
“China’s Policies Toward its Asian Neighbors,” International Relations, University of Southern
California, October 16, 2002.
“China’s Relations with Central Asia Since September 11,” The Silk Road in the 21st Century,
Security and Insecurity in Central Asia and the Caucasus: A Regional Challenge with
Global Implications, Yale University, September 20, 2002.
Organizer and presenter (“The Succession Game”), The 16th CCP Congress and LeadershipTransition in China, sponsored by Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson Center, and IGCC,
Washington D.C., September 17, 2002.
“Commercialization of the Chinese Media,” Fortune Magazine Brainstorm 2002, Aspen,
Colorado, July 29–30, 2002.
“Recent Trends in Chinese Foreign Policy,” Muir College Faculty Luncheon, May 15, 2002.
“Chinese Nationalism and Policies Toward the United States, Japan, and Taiwan, the Aspen
Institute congressional conference on “U.S.–China Relations,” Beijing, China, March 28–
April 6, 2002.
Asia/Pacific Research Center, Corporate Affiliates Annual Asia Briefing, Stanford University,
March 22, 2002.
“The Future of U.S. China Relations,” Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown
University, March 20, 2002.
“China’s Foreign Policies,” Global Issues in the German-American Partnership: Changing
Relations with Russian and China conference sponsored by IGCC, Federal German
Information Agency, German-American Research Group, Consortium for Atlantic
Studies, and IRPS, La Jolla, CA, March 14–16, 2002.
“Chinese Nationalism and Recent Policies Toward Japan, Taiwan, and the U.S.,” International
Symposium of the Japanese Association for Asian Studies, December 8–9, 2001 in
Okinawa, Japan.
“Anti-Terrorism and U.S-East Asia Relations,” U.S. Embassy, Tokyo, December 11, 2001.
“China’s Domestic Reforms and International Role,” luncheon speaker, Wednesday Club, San
Diego, October 31, 2001
“How China Did It,” China in the New World Order: Implications for India, Confederation ofIndian Industry, Bangalore, India, July 20, 2001.

Susan L. Shirk- Page 14 -“Whither Deterrence?” A Futures Project of the Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, June 14–15, 2001.
“Chinese Nationalism and Recent Policies Toward Japan, Taiwan, and the United States,” theSouthern Center for International Studies and the Ditchley Foundation conference“China’s External Relations,” Atlanta, Georgia, June 7–10, 2001.
“What Kind of Rising Power is China?” Julius Margolis Lecture at UC Irvine Center for Global
Peace and Conflict Studies, May 8, 2001.
“China’s Asia Policies, “Pugwash Workshop on East Asian Security, Seoul, Korea, April 3–6,
2001.
“What Kind of Rising Power is China?” The Aspen Institute Congressional Conference on U.S.China Relations, April 2001.
“Asia Policy in the Bush Administration,” The Canadian Center for Foreign Policy
Development, March 20, 2001.
“Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in China,” IGCC and Institute of Governmental Affairs,
UC Davis, March 14, 2001.
“Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in China,” University of Oklahoma, March 9, 2001.
“What Kind of Rising Power is China,” Claremont McKenna College, Keck Center forInternational and Strategic Studies, March 5, 2001.
The Rise of China: Security Implications”, Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Duke Programin Asian Security Studies, and the U.S. Army War College, Chapel Hill, N.C., March 2–3,
2001.
“Chinese Policies Toward India After the May 1998 Nuclear Tests,” Triangle Institute for
Security Studies and U.S. Army War College, “The Rise of China: Security Implication,”
Chapel Hill, N.C., March 2, 2001.
“U.S.–China Relations Under the Bush Administration,” San Diego World Affairs Council,
February 6, 2001.
“U.S.-China Relations Under the Bush Administration,” East-West Center, Honolulu, January
17, 2001.
“The Taiwan Issue in U.S.–China Relations,” World Affairs Council of Northern California and
Women in International Security, October 12, 2000.
“The Cultural Revolution and its Aftermath,” The Evolution of Contemporary China Studies: A
Symposium in Honor of Michel Oksenberg, Stanford University, October 7, 2000.
“U.S. Policy and PRC–Taiwan Relations,” IRPS Dean’s Roundtable, September 22, 2000.

Susan L. Shirk- Page 15 -Commentator, U.S.–China Conference on Non-Proliferation and Arms Control, Monterey
Institute of International Studies and China Institute of International Studies, Beijing,
September 14–15, 2000.
“The Politics of Economic Reform in China,” guest lecture at the Center for East Asian Studies,
University of Chicago, May 21, 1993.
“The Human Rights Issue and U.S. Policy toward China,” paper presented at a joint IGCC–
Council on Foreign Relations conference on “Reconceptualizing U.S. Policy toward East
Asia”, March 11–12, 1993.
“The United States and the Evolving Security System in Asia,” paper presented at UC Berkeley
conference on Foreign Policy Challenges Confronting the Next President, October 23,
1992.

“The Collapse of Communism: Is China Next?” Program on Global Security, UC Santa
Cruz, May 18, 1992.
Participant, “Asia Society U.S.–Japan Policy Dialogue on China,” Tokyo, April 2–3, 1992.
“How the Chinese Communist Political System Works,” Harvard University, Department ofGovernment Program in Political Economy, March 20, 1992.
“U.S. Security Policies in the Asia-Pacific Region,” IGCC briefing to Congressional staffs,
Washington D.C., March 13, 1992.
“Institutional Approaches to Understanding Communism: Lessons for China from the Soviet
Union”, guest speaker, MIT Center for International Studies, March 3, 1992.

“Institutional Approaches to Understanding Communist Regimes”, MIT’s Project XXI,
Washington, D.C., November 4, 1991.
“Implications of the Changes in the Soviet Union for the Future of China”, guest speaker,
Global Peace and Security Program, UC Santa Barbara, October 30, 1991.
“Playing to the Provinces: Deng Xiaopeng’s Political Strategy of Economic Reform,” paper
presented at panel on “Institutional Approaches to Communist Reform” (panelorganizer and chair), Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association,
September 2, 1990.
Panel organizer and presenter, “Re-Examining our Understanding of Chinese Politics: New
Research Questions Raised by Beijing, Spring 1989.” Annual Meeting, Association for
Asian Studies, April 6, 1990.
“Technology Imports in China: The Bargaining Game,” Harvard Department of Government,
February 8, 1990.

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Science, January 19, 1990.
Commentator, Four Anniversaries China Conference, sponsored by Harvard University,
University of Michigan, and UC Berkeley, Annapolis, Maryland, September 11–14,
1989.
Commentator, Conference on Recent Economic and Political Reforms in China, UCLA, June 5,
1989.

“The Evolution of Enterprise Finance,” Annual Meeting, Association for Asian Studies,
March 17, 1989.
Commentator, Conference on Education in Contemporary and Traditional China, UCLA,
February 11, 1989.
Participant, Conference on Democratization in the Republic of China, Sponsored by National
Chengchi University and Harvard University, Taipei, January 9–11, 1989.
“Prospects for Reform in China, “Jackson School of International Studies, University ofWashington, November 7, 1988.
“The Chinese Political System and the Political Strategy of Economic Reform,” Conference on
The Structure of Authority and Bureaucratic Behavior in China, Sponsored by the ACLSSSRC Joint Committee on Chinese Studies, Tucson, Ariz., June 19–23. 1988.
Panel Organizer and Chair, “Key Issues in Political Administration in China: Personnel
Management and Public Finance,” Annual Meeting, Association for Asian Studies,
March 26, 1988.