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Gaye Christoffersen, Ph.D
Resident Professor of International Politics
Based in Nanjing, China
Background and Education
Prior to coming to the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in 2012, served as a visiting professor in the Political Science Department at Johns Hopkins University and worked at educational and research institutions in California, Colorado and Hawaii; as a Fulbright professor, introduced a course on Asia-Pacific international relations to Far Eastern State Technical University in Vladivostok, Russia, and to the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, teaching a class of young diplomats from the Foreign Ministry; taught peace and conflict resolution to Turkish Cypriots involved in bi-communal activities on the Green Line buffer zone; research focuses primarily on transnational, nontraditional security issues such as piracy, energy and other challenges on which East Asian nations cooperate; currently working on a paper, “Institutionalizing Northeast Asia: Explaining Change in the Northeast Asian Energy Regime Complex,” for a project organized by the Energy Resources and Environment Program at SAIS and presented earlier versions at the meeting of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific Study Group on Multilateral Security Governance in Northeast Asia/North Pacific in Seoul, South Korea, in 2011, and at the Washington Asia Forum at American University in 2012; recipient of an East-West Center award, an IREX travel grant and a Social Science Research Council faculty professional development grant; Ph.D., political science, University of Hawaii
Publications
“Human Security Implications of China’s Foreign Energy Relations” in China’s Challenges to Human Security: Foreign Relations and Global Implications (2012); “The Multiple Levels of Sino-Russian Energy Relations” in Eurasia’s Ascent in Energy and Geopolitics: China, Russia and Central Asia (2012); “U.S.-China Energy Relations and Energy Institution Building in the Asia-Pacific” in China and East Asian Regionalism: Economic and Security Cooperation and Institution-Building (2012); “China and Maritime Cooperation: Piracy in the Gulf of Aden” in Comprehensive Security in the Asia-Pacific Region (2010); “Russia’s Breakthrough Into the Asia-Pacific: China’s Role” in International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (2010); “Energy Security Cooperation in Asia and the Role of the United States” in Energy and Security Cooperation in Asia: Challenges and Prospects (2009); “Japan and the East Asian Maritime Security Order: Prospects for Trilateral and Multilateral Cooperation” in Asian Perspective (2009); “Chinese and ASEAN Responses to the U.S. Regional Maritime Security Initiative” in China Turns to Multilateralism: Foreign Policy and Regional Security (2007)
- Topics
- Conflict Resolution and Negotiation
- Energy Issues
- Energy and Security
- Foreign Languages
- Chinese