Michael Swaine: “What, Exactly, Is The Threat From China?”

Crested Butte Public Policy Forum Event: Michael Swaine: “What, Exactly, Is The Threat From China?”

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Michael D. Swaine is one the most prominent American analysts in Chinese security studies and currently serves as the Director, East Asia Program, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

Formerly a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for nearly 20 years and before that a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, Swaine is a specialist in Chinese defense and foreign policy, U.S. –China relations, and East Asian international relations.

He has authored and edited more than a dozen books and monographs and many journal articles and book chapters in these areas, directs security and crisis-related projects with Chinese partners, and advises the U.S. government on Asian security issues. Swaine is a regular contributor to the China Leadership Monitor, a journal published by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. An article in a leading Chinese foreign affairs journal identified Swaine as one of the four major scholars in the third generation of American “China Watchers.”

He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in government from Harvard University.