David Shambaugh

David Shambaugh    ( academic)
Born	January 18, 1953
Nationality	US
Alma mater	•  Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies •  University of Michigan
Parents	George E. Shambaugh Jr
Member of	Council on Foreign Relations/Members 3
Interests	•  China/Foreign policy •  Michel Oksenberg
CFR, Brookings Institution single Bilderberg US academic, China focus  Director of the China Policy Program Dates unknown Employer Elliott School of International Affairs Attended Bilderberg/2012  Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics In office 1986 - 1996 Employer SOAS  Staff In office 1977 - 1979 Employer National Security Council Appointed by Jimmy Carter

David Shambaugh is the Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & International Affairs, and director of the China Policy Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington DC. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He attended the 2012 Bilderberg meeting, where one of the topics was China's Economic and Political Outlook.

Education

Shambaugh is the son of George E. Shambaugh, Jr., a physician. David Shambaugh earned his bachelor's degree from the Elliott School of International Affairs of George Washington University, where he now teaches. He received his Masters of Arts in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and earned his PhD in political science from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Michel Oksenberg.

Deep state funding

He has received research grants from the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, Hinrich Foundation, German Marshall Fund, British Academy, and U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Career

He was an analyst in the Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research 1976-1977 and theNational Security Council 1977-78.

He was Director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1985-86.

Shambaugh is Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & International Affairs, and director of the China Policy Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington D.C. He specializes in China's domestic politics, China's foreign relations, China's military and security, and international relations of Asia.

Regarded inside and outside China as an authority on China's foreign policy, military and security issues and Chinese politics, Shambaugh has been cited in Chinese media. He is a regular media commentator and has acted as an advisor to the United States government and several private foundations and corporations.

He was formerly the editor of the China Quarterly, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution since 1998.

In 2015, researchers at the China Foreign Affairs University named him the second-most influential China expert in the United States, behind David M. Lampton.

Shambaugh has held a number of consultancies, including with various agencies of the U.S. Government, the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, RAND Corporation, Library of Congress, and numerous private sector corporations.

Shambaugh is a participant of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy convened by Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations.

Works

He has contributed to several book focusing on the "potential for instability" in China from political, economic, and historical perspectives.

In 2014, he wrote the book China Goes Global: The Partial Power, where the blurb says that

Shambaugh offers an enlightening look into the manifestations of China's global presence: its extensive commercial footprint, its growing military power, its increasing cultural influence or "soft power," its diplomatic activity, and its new prominence in global governance institutions. But Shambaugh is no alarmist. In this balanced and well-researched volume, he argues that China's global presence is more broad than deep and that China still lacks the influence befitting a major world power--what he terms a "partial power."

China Goes Global was selected by The Economist as one of the best books of the year.

In his 2016 book China’s Future Shambaugh writes that without political reform, the economic overhauls that China is embarked upon will stall and the overall economy will stagnate – although not collapse..

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2012	31 May 2012	3 June 2012	US Virginia Chantilly	The 58th Bilderberg, in Chantilly, Virginia. Unusually just 4 years after an earlier Bilderberg meeting there.
Munich Security Conference/2011	4 February 2011	6 February 2011	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 47th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2012	3 February 2012	5 February 2012	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 48th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2013	1 February 2013	3 February 2013	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 49th Munich Security Conference

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