Professor of International Politics, University of Manchester, UK; Co-Director, British Inter-university China Centre, Oxford University
For the past two decades I have been exploring the interface between theory and practice in international politics: in particular how studies of Chinese foreign policy need to be better theorised, on the one hand, and how East Asian thought can add to political and international relations theory, on the other. In a way, this academic two-step started by chance when I moved to Thailand just as poli...
Associate Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the South Asia Studies Program, Wellesley College
I was born and raised in central Pennsylvania. As a teenager, I lived in South India, where my interest in Southern Asia began. After College, I worked for three years to assist Tibetan refugees in India, Afghan refugees in Pakistan, and internally displaced people in Sri Lanka. I have strong interests in Buddhist arts, Islamic social thought, soccer, and squash.EducationB.A. (1985) Philosophy, Ha...
Lecturer in War and Security Studies and Director of South Asia Project, Department of Politics and International Studies, The University of Hull, UK
My research has primarily focused on strategic and nuclear weapons politics in South Asia, although my intellectual life did not begin in this area. During my postgraduate studies and at the beginning of my academic career I delved into ethnicity and nationalism studies. I was particularly interested in ethnic identity formation and its dynamics within the ‘nation-state'. At the Internationa...
Senior Correspondent and Associate Editor at The Washington Post
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor. He was The Washington Post’s national editor and has served as an assistant managing editor. He was bureau chief in Baghdad for the first two years of the Iraq war. He also has been a correspondent in Cairo and Southeast Asia. He is the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a best-selling acco...
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, Northern Illinois University
My teaching and scholarship have focused primarily on American relations with South and Southeast Asia. My first book was about John Hay, secretary of state when the United States annexed the Philippines. While many American historians had explored the annexation, few had examined American colonial rule. Therefore I decided to research the attitudes and ideas of one important gro...
University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, MSU, UMBC
ExpertiseU.S. foreign relations, especially U.S.-China relations
South Asia Correspondent, The Washington Post
About the speaker: Pamela Constable, a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2010, serves as a South Asia correspondent for the Washington Post. She has been covering South Asia since 1999, and spent four years as the Post’s bureau chief for the region, stationed in New Delhi and Kabul. Earlier, she spent nine years as the Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globe, and...
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
I have been teaching at the George Washington University since 1993, and am currently professor of political science and international affairs. I served as director of graduate studies in the political science department from 2004-2006, and as director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Asian Studies Program from 1998-2001. My research and teaching focus on political dynamics in China a...
Professor, Departments of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University
I am a Professor of International Relations and Political Science as well as Director of the East Asia Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Boston University. I am the author of four books: China Since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Elite Politics in Contemporary China (M.E. Sharpe, 2001), The Dilemmas of Reform in China: Political Conflict and Economic D...
Professor of Political Science and Founding Director, Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania
My interest in India has been life-long, sparked by an assignment in college to write a review of Jawaharlal Nehru's autobiography Toward Freedom. Related readings opened up an entirely different world than the one I knew as a young American. This was at a time during the Cold War when the U.S. government, bent on winning the "hearts and minds" of the populations emerging from colonial rule made a...
For the past two decades I have been exploring the interface between theory and practice in international politics: in particular how studies of Chinese foreign policy need to be better theorised, on the one hand, and how East Asian thought can add to political and international relations theory, on the other. In a way, this academic two-step started by chance when I moved to Thailand just as poli...
I was born and raised in central Pennsylvania. As a teenager, I lived in South India, where my interest in Southern Asia began. After College, I worked for three years to assist Tibetan refugees in India, Afghan refugees in Pakistan, and internally displaced people in Sri Lanka. I have strong interests in Buddhist arts, Islamic social thought, soccer, and squash.EducationB.A. (1985) Philosophy, Ha...
My research has primarily focused on strategic and nuclear weapons politics in South Asia, although my intellectual life did not begin in this area. During my postgraduate studies and at the beginning of my academic career I delved into ethnicity and nationalism studies. I was particularly interested in ethnic identity formation and its dynamics within the ‘nation-state'. At the Internationa...
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor. He was The Washington Post’s national editor and has served as an assistant managing editor. He was bureau chief in Baghdad for the first two years of the Iraq war. He also has been a correspondent in Cairo and Southeast Asia. He is the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a best-selling acco...
My teaching and scholarship have focused primarily on American relations with South and Southeast Asia. My first book was about John Hay, secretary of state when the United States annexed the Philippines. While many American historians had explored the annexation, few had examined American colonial rule. Therefore I decided to research the attitudes and ideas of one important gro...
I am a Professor of International Relations and Political Science as well as Director of the East Asia Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Boston University. I am the author of four books: China Since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Elite Politics in Contemporary China (M.E. Sharpe, 2001), The Dilemmas of Reform in China: Political Conflict and Economic D...
My interest in India has been life-long, sparked by an assignment in college to write a review of Jawaharlal Nehru's autobiography Toward Freedom. Related readings opened up an entirely different world than the one I knew as a young American. This was at a time during the Cold War when the U.S. government, bent on winning the "hearts and minds" of the populations emerging from colonial rule made a...