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David M. Lampton, Ph.D.

George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, Director of the China Studies Program

Based in Washington, D.C.
Rome 612

Background and Education

Served as SAIS dean of faculty from 2004 to 2012; former president of the National Committee on United States-China Relations; past director of China policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and The Nixon Center; former associate professor of political science at Ohio State University; awarded an honorary doctorate from the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; honorary senior fellow with the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; winner of inaugural Scalapino Prize for contributions to American understanding of Asia; honored as a Johns Hopkins University Gilman Scholar; Ph.D., political science, Stanford University
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The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money and Minds (2008); Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989–2000 (2001); The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform, editor (2001); Bureaucracy, Politics and Decision-Making in Post-Mao China, co-editor (1992); China’s Global Presence, co-editor (1988); Policy Implementation in Post-Mao China, editor (1987); A Relationship Restored, co-author (1986); Paths to Power: Elite Mobility in Contemporary China (1986; reprinted in 1989); The Politics of Medicine in China (1977); “Power Constrained: Sources of Mutual Strategic Suspicion in U.S.-China Relations” in The National Bureau of Asian Research’s NBR Analysis (2010); “What If China Fails? We’d Better Hope It Doesn’t” in The Wilson Quarterly (2010)

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