I received my undergraduate degree from Colby College in 1991. My PhD in Political Science was granted from Yale University in 2000.

My main research interests include international relations, Chinese foreign policy and Asian security.

I recently co-edited (with J.J. Suh and Peter Katzenstein) Rethinking Security in East Asia (Stanford University Press, 2004).

I am also the author of Unifying China, Integrating with the World: The Chinese Approach to Sovereignty During the Reform Era (Stanford University Press, 2005).

Please read the book to learn more about China's emerging relationship with the rest of the world. A brief description of the book is available at: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?isbn=0804750602 .

I have also published articles in the Journal of Contemporary China and Pacific Affairs, and written monographs for the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the East-West Center Washington.

I regularly teach classes on China's foreign relations, Asian security, Chinese nationalism, globalization, and international relations theory.

I have also spent a considerable amount of time in China over the course of the last decade.

Most recently, during the 2004-2005 academic year, I was a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education. I used the fellowship to conduct research while a visiting scholar at Peking University.

In 2005 I was also selected to participate in the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations' Public Intellectuals Program. For an overview of this program see: http://ncuscr.org/PIP/PublicIntellectualsProgram.htm .

I currently serve as the director of the undergraduate studies program for the Government Department, and am a core faculty member of Cornell's new China-Asia Pacific Studies (CAPS) major. For more on CAPS visit: http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/caps/ .

Since 2000 Ithaca has been home for me, my wife Liang Jing, and our two children.

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught in 2006-2007:

Government 606: International Relations Field Seminar

Government/CAPS 282: China and the World

Government/CAPS 482/682: National Unification and International Integration - China Faces the Future

Government 487/687: Asian Security