- Susan Shirk
Susan Shirk is an expert on
Chinese politics and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State during the Clinton administration. She was in the Bureau ofEast Asia and Pacific Affairs (People's Republic ofChina ,Taiwan ,Hong Kong andMongolia ). She is currently a professor at theGraduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at theUniversity of California, San Diego . She is married toSamuel L. Popkin , another prominentUCSD professor.Background
She received her B.A. in political science from
Mount Holyoke College in 1967, her M.A. in Asian studies at theUniversity of California, Berkeley in 1968, and her Ph.D. in political science from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974.Career
Shirk is the Ho Miu Lam Endowed Chair of China and Pacific Relations in the
Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at theUniversity of California, San Diego and Director of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). She heads the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue, a track II diplomatic initiative.elect books
*"China: Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise", 2007
*"How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the Prc's Foreign Trade and Investment Reform", 1994
*"The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China", 1993
*"The Challenge of China and Japan: Politics and Development in East Asia", 1985External links
* [http://www.ncnk.org/member-directory/dr-susan-shirk Biography] - National Committee on North Korea
* [http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Shirk/shirk-con0.html China and the United States: Conversation with Susan Shirk]
* [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/040904/korea.shtml Susan Shirk to Speak on North Korea] -Mount Holyoke College .
* [http://www.uctv.tv/schedule3.asp?Date=11/17/2006&summary=show&title=&keyword=12060&showID= The Body Politic: North Korea] - interview withUniversity of California
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