David Shambaugh

Shambaugh is the youngest son of George E. Shambaugh, Jr., an otolaryngologist and founder of the American Hearing Research Foundation. He grew up in Illinois and attended boarding school in Arizona. His brother [https://www.gradyhealth.org/doctors/george-e-shambaugh/ George E. Shambaugh III] is also a physician at Emory University. Shambaugh earned his BA cum laude in East Asian Studies in 1977 from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University—where he now serves on the faculty. He received his MA in International Affairs in 1980 from Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and his PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1988, where he studied under Michel Oksenberg.{{Cite web |title=David Shambaugh, PhD |url=https://www.american-hearing.org/staff/david-shambaugh-ph-d/ |access-date=2025-02-15 |website=American Hearing Research Foundation |language=en-US}}{{cite web |date=2010-05-21 |title=中国问题专家沈大伟见证中国 |url=http://culture.china.com.cn/renwu/2010-05/21/content_20087803.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305040654/http://culture.china.com.cn/renwu/2010-05/21/content_20087803.htm |archive-date=2016-03-05 |access-date=2020-05-31 |publisher=中国网}}

Shambaugh began his professional career as Program Associate and Acting Director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC (1986-87), before being appointed as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Reader in Chinese Politics at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), where he was on the faculty from 1987-1996. During this time, he also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious journal The China Quarterly (1991-96). In 1996 he left England and returned to the United States, when he was appointed as Professor of Political Science & International Affairs, and Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.{{Cite web |title=David Shambaugh {{!}} The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) |url=https://www.nbr.org/people/david-shambaugh/ |access-date=2025-02-15 |language=en}}

Regarded as an international authority on China, Shambaugh is a frequent media commentator and has acted as an advisor to the United States Government and several private foundations and corporations.Elliott School of International Affairs, [http://elliott.gwu.edu/faculty/shambaugh.cfm Faculty: David Shambaugh] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415221743/http://elliott.gwu.edu/faculty/shambaugh.cfm|date=2012-04-15}} He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and other professional organizations.Brookings Institution, [http://www.brookings.edu/experts/shambaughd.aspx ‘Experts: David Shambaugh'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111109070952/http://www.brookings.edu/experts/shambaughd.aspx|date=November 9, 2011}} His books China Goes Global (2013) and China’s Future (2016) were selected by The Economist as one of the best books of the year (2014, 2016).Elliott School of International Affairs Briefing - Kudos [http://elliott.gwu.edu/briefing/february-2014/kudos ESIA Briefing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221222729/http://elliott.gwu.edu/briefing/february-2014/kudos |date=2014-02-21 }} Feb 2014 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.{{Cite web|url = http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/q-and-a-david-shambaugh-on-the-risks-to-chinese-communist-rule/|title = Q. And A.: David Shambaugh on the Risks to Chinese Communist Rule|date = 15 March 2015|access-date = 11 April 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150416180023/http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/q-and-a-david-shambaugh-on-the-risks-to-chinese-communist-rule/|archive-date = 16 April 2015|url-status = live}} Shambaugh has given testimony before the US Senate and House of Representatives, the UK House of Commons, and the Canadian Parliament.{{Cite web |title=- WHERE ARE U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS HEADED? |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-107shrg72559/html/CHRG-107shrg72559.htm |access-date=2025-02-15 |website=www.govinfo.gov}} He has been a visiting professor or scholar in Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, Denmark, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Shambaugh is a member of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy convened by Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations.{{Cite web |title=The Task Force on U.S.-China Policy |url=https://asiasociety.org/center-us-china-relations/task-force-us-china-policy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240108205426/https://asiasociety.org/center-us-china-relations/task-force-us-china-policy |archive-date=January 8, 2024 |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=Asia Society |date=August 2023 |language=en}} He holds a continuing appointment as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow to the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He was previously twice selected as a Fellow and Distinguished Fellow to the Woodrow Wilson Center for two terms (2002-2003, 2023-2024).{{Cite web |date=2025-02-10 |title=David Shambaugh |url=https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/david-shambaugh |access-date=2025-02-15 |website=www.wilsoncenter.org |language=en}}

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• [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/2772505 The Making of a Premier: Zhao Ziyang's Provincial Career] (1984)
• [https://archive.org/details/chinasmilitaryin0000unse China's Military in Transition] (1991)
• [https://archive.org/details/beautifulimperia0000sham Beautiful Imperialist] (1993)
• [https://archive.org/details/bwb_P8-CCH-902 Deng Xiaoping: Portrait of a Chinese Statesman] (1995)
• [https://archive.org/details/chineseforeignpo0000unse Chinese Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice] (1996)
• [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/161755/the-china-reader-by-edited-by-orville-schell-and-david-shambaugh/ The China Reader: The Reform Era] (1998)
• [https://www.routledge.com/Chinas-Military-Faces-the-Future/Lilley-Shambaugh/p/book/9780765605061 China's Military Faces the Future] (1999)
• [https://archive.org/details/ischinaunstablea0000unse Is China Unstable: Assessing the Factors] (2000)
• [https://archive.org/details/modernchinesesta0000unse The Modern Chinese State] (2000)
• [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pncdf Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects] (2003)
• [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvcwnvs2 The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures] (2005)
• [https://archive.org/details/powershiftchinaa0000unse Power Shift: China & Asia's New Dynamics] (2005)
• [https://archive.org/details/chinaeuroperelat0000unse China-Europe Relations] (2007)
• [https://www.loc.gov/item/2006017820/ China Watching: Perspectives from Europe, Japan, and the United States] (2007)
• [https://www.swp-berlin.org/publications/products/research_papers/2008_RP03_shambaugh_wkr_ks.pdf American and European Relations with China] (2008)
• [https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520260078/chinas-communist-party China's Communist Party: Atrophy & Adaptation] (2008)
• [https://ia804605.us.archive.org/7/items/introduction-to-international-relations-theories-and-approaches-by-robert-jackso/International%20Relations%20of%20Asia%20%28Asia%20in%20World%20Politics%29%20by%20David%20Shambaugh%20And%20Michael%20Yahuda_%28urdukutabkhanapk.blogspot%29.pdf International Relations of Asia] (2008, 2014, 2022)
• [https://www.routledge.com/Charting-Chinas-Future-Domestic-and-International-Challenges/Shambaugh/p/book/9780415619554 Charting China's Future: Domestic and International Challenges] (2011)
• [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/china-goes-global-9780199860142 China Goes Global: The Partial Power] (Oxford University Press, 2013)
• [https://www.wiley.com/en-us/China%27s+Future-p-9781509507146 China's Future] (Polity, 2016)
• [https://academic.oup.com/book/32164 China and the World] (2020).
• [https://academic.oup.com/book/33531 Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia] (2020).
• [https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=chinas-leaders-from-mao-to-now--9781509546510 China's Leaders: From Mao to Now] (2021, 2023)
• [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/breaking-the-engagement-9780197792421 Breaking the Engagement: How China Won & Lost America] (2025)

• "Containment or Engagement of China? Calculating Beijing's Responses." International Security 21, no. 2 (1996): 180-209. {{doi|10.2307/2539074}}
• [https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/6/article/447689/pdf "China's Military Views the World: Ambivalent Security"] International Security 24, no. 3 (1999): 52-79.
• "China's International Relations Think Tanks: Evolving Structure and Process." The China Quarterly 171 (2002): 575-596. {{doi|10.1017/S0009443902000360}}
• "China And the Korean Peninsula: Playing for the Long Term" Washington Quarterly (2003). {{doi|10.1162/01636600360569685}}
• "China Engages Asia: Reshaping the Regional Order" International Security 29, no. 3 (2004): 64-99. {{JSTOR|4137556}}
• "Coping with a Conflicted China" The Washington Quarterly 34, no. 1 (2011): 7-27. {{doi|10.1080/0163660X.2011.537974}}
• "China's Soft-Power Push: The Search for Respect." Foreign Affairs 94, no. 4 (2015): 99-107. {{JSTOR|24483821}}
• [https://china.usc.edu/sites/default/files/Shambaugh%20-%20The%20Coming%20Chinese%20Crack-up.pdf "The Coming Chinese Crack-Up"] Wall Street Journal 6 (2015): 382.
• "China’s Propaganda System: Institutions, Processes and Efficacy." The China Journal, No. 57 (January 2007). {{JSTOR|20066240}}
• [https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A166351069/AONE "China’s ‘Quiet Diplomacy’: The International Department of the Chinese Communist Party,"] China: An International Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2007).
• "Training China’s Political Elite: The Party School System," The China Quarterly (December 2008). {{doi|10.1017/S0305741008001148}}
• "China’s Moment," TIME, September 28, 2009.
• "US-China Rivalry in Southeast Asia: Power Shift or Competitive Coexistence?." International Security 42, no. 4 (2018): 85-127. {{doi|10.1162/isec_a_00314}}
• [https://chinabooksreview.com/2025/02/06/hu-yaobang/ "What If Hu Yaobang Had Lived?"] China Books Review, February 6, 2025.
• "The Evolution of American China Studies: Coming Full Circle?" Journal of Contemporary China, Volume 33, Issue 146 (March 2024). {{doi|10.1080/10670564.2023.2237918}}
• "Becoming a Ganbu: China’s Cadre Training School System," Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 32, Issue 142 (July 2023). {{doi|10.1080/10670564.2022.2109008}}
• "Jiang Zemin: China’s Underappreciated Leader," Foreign Affairs, November 30, 2022.
• "The Chinese Communist Party at 100," The Montreal Review, July 2021.
• [https://viet-studies.net/kinhte/SEAsiaCrucible_FA.pdf "The Southeast Asian Crucible,"] Foreign Affairs, December 17, 2020.
• "China’s External Propaganda Work: Missions, Messengers, Mediums," [https://www.ccpwatch.org/single-post/2018/10/18/Party-Watch-Annual-Report-2018 Party Watch Annual Report 2018]

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• [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/08/china-challenge/ The China Challenge] May 8, 2014 issue New York Review of Books including Shambaugh 2013 book

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