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A Roundtable with Dr. Susan Shirk presenting, "Sino-US Relations".
Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and professor of political science. Shirk first traveled to China in 1971 and has been doing research there ever since.
During 1997-2000, Shirk served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mongolia.
She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial "track-two" forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.
Shirk's publications include many articles and books, including How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC's Foreign Trade and Investment Reforms (Brookings); The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China (University of California Press); and Competitive Comrades: Career Incentives and Student Strategies in China (University of California Press). Her latest book, China: Fragile Superpower, was published by Oxford University Press in Spring 2007.
Shirk served as a member of the U.S. Defense Policy Board, the Board of Governors for the East-West Center (Hawaii), the Board of Trustees of the U.S.-Japan Foundation, and the Board of Directors of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and an emeritus member of the Aspen Strategy Group. As Senior Adviser to The Albright Group, Shirk advises private sector clients on China and East Asia.
