Making American Policy Toward China -- scholars and policy makers on economics, security, and climate change

Richard Baum

Professor of political science Richard Baum has taught at the University of California at Los Angeles for nearly four decades. The former director of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, Baum is the author or editor of numerous books, including Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping. His latest book, due out in 2009, is China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom. He founded ChinaPol, an email discussion group of scholars, officials, journalists, and other professionals in 1995. It now has 900 members. 

[Rick Baum discussed Election '08 and the Challenge of China.]

Jay Davis

"Military Interactions and Arms Control: Lessons from the Field and the Desk"

A nuclear physicist, Jay Davis is a former National Security Fellow at the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. From 1998 to 2001, he was the founding Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, an agency created to address the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction. For his contributions to national security during his tenure at Defense, he was twice awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Department’s highest civilian award. From the early 1970s to the late 1990s, Dr. Davis was a researcher and engineering manager at Livermore, ultimately serving as associate director of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Directorate.

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Banning Garrett
"The Strategic Basis of U.S.-China Relations and the Challenges of the 21st Century"

Banning Garrett directs the Asia Society’s initiative on U.S.-China cooperation on energy and climate. He previously headed the Atlantic Council’s Asia program. Dr. Garrett has been a U.S. government consultant for more than twenty years and has taught at George Washington University. His analyses have appeared in a wide range of publications, including International Security, The Washington Quarterly, New York Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, and Asian Survey. 

Henry Levine
U.S.-China Economic Relations: Much Noise but Limited Options

Henry Levine is a Senior Director with advisory firm Stonebridge International. He previously had a distinguished career as a Foreign Service Officer, culminating in service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Europe (2002-2003) and for Asia (2003-2005). Prior to this, Mr. Levine completed several assignments in China, including service as Consul General in Shanghai (1999-2002) and Deputy Chief of the U.S. Embassy’s Economic Section (1989-1992). Mr. Levine has testified before Congress on China’s compliance with World Trade Organization requirements and is a frequent speaker before business and academic groups.

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E. Perry Link

Chinese literature Professor Perry Link has returned to Southern California as the Chancellor Chair for Innovation in Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California at Riverside. One of the foremost American teachers of Chinese, Link previously taught at UCLA and at Princeton. He has published several volumes of literary translations as well as studies such as Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China's Predicament and The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System. He was co-translator of The Tiananmen Papers.

[Perry Link discussed Election '08 and the Challenge of China.]

Daniel Lynch

Professor Lynch is currently researching how Chinese political and intellectual elites expect China will, or should, change in the years leading up to about 2030. He is focusing on five interrelated issue-areas: domestic political processes and institutions; comprehensive national power and its implications for the country's role(s) in world politics; Party-state defense of cultural integrity and national identity under conditions of deepening globalization; development and diffusion of potentially transformative new technologies; and prospects for achieving sustainable development.

[Dan Lynch served as a panel chair.]

Daniel A. Mazmanian

Professor Mazmanian is a widely published scholar in the field of policy implementation and, in particular, environmental policy. His research has been focused on the transition to the greening of industry and on sustainable communities. He has received the Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award from the American Political Science Association, and the Thomas R. Dye Service Award from the Policy Studies Organization. He recently completed service on the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development's Task Force on Environmental Governance.

[Dan Mazmanian served as a panel chair.]

Alan D. Romberg
"Cross-Strait Relations: The Road Ahead"

A prolific writer on U.S. relations with Northeast Asia, Alan Romberg is Director of the East Asia Program at The Henry L. Stimson Center, where he has been since 2000. From 1964 to 1985, he was a foreign service officer, focusing on East Asia in a number of positions, including on the National Security Council staff and as Deputy State Department spokesperson. For the next decade, Mr. Romberg was C.V. Starr Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He returned to government service in 1994, serving as Principal Deputy Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, Senior Advisor to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN, and Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy. He is author of Rein In at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and U.S.-PRC Relations.