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Professor Shirk is a political scientist whose research focuses on Chinese politics and economics, Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations and U.S. policies toward Asia. From July 1997 to July 2000, she served as deputy assistant secretary for China, Taiwan and Hong Kong in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. From 1991-97 and from 2006-present, she has been the director of the University of California's systemwide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), based at UC San Diego, during which time she founded the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue, a track-two security forum. She is the author of How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC's Foreign Trade, and Investment Reforms and The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China, and editor of Power and Prosperity: Economic and Security Linkages in the Asia Pacific. Previous publications include The Challenge of China and Japan and Competitive Comrades: Career Incentives and Student Strategies in China. Shirk has also written numerous scholarly articles on Chinese politics and foreign policy. She has served on the Defense Policy Board, the board of governors of the East-West Center in Hawaii, the boards of the U.S.-Japan Foundation and the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations, the editorial board of the American Political Science Review, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Susan Shirk