BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Elizabeth Van Wie Davis is a
professor in the College of Security Studies, Department of Regional
Studies. She focuses on Chinese domestic, foreign, and defense
policies as well as issues of international law.
Her work includes looking at China's role in the international
community and in the Asia Pacific region. This involves looking at
US-China relations, Chinese foreign policy, the security environment
in Northeast Asia, and the development of China's domestic agenda.
The rapid modernization of China has increased its global influence
at an impressive pace. However, this reemerging China faces the
dilemma of how to face the international system, the Asia-Pacific
region and the United States.
Coming to the Asia-Pacific Center from Johns Hopkins
University's, SAIS, Center in Nanjing, China, Dr. Davis was the Fei
Yi-Ming Professor of Politics from 1998 to 2000. As the recipient of
this endowed chair, she was responsible for conducting research in
China. Additionally, she taught graduate classes on US-China
Relations as well as international law and politics. As the Fei
Yi-Ming Professor, she published both her own and other Center
residents' writing.
Previously Dr. Davis held appointments at other universities. As
tenured faculty at Illinois State University, she taught politics
classes in Asian Politics, Chinese Politics, National Security and
International Law, and served as the Global Studies advisor. At the
University of Virginia, Dr. Davis held several positions including
teaching a graduate course on Chinese Foreign Policy as a visiting
assistant professor, and lecturing and researching as a research
associate for the UVA Asian Studies Committee.
Dr. Davis holds both a Ph.D. and M.A. in Foreign Affairs from the
University of Virginia. While engaged in graduate studies, she
conducted research at Beijing University, China, and completed
Chinese language courses at Harvard University. Educated in the
University of Chicago's Great Books program at Shimer College and
Oxford University, she received her B.A. from Shimer College and
completed economics courses at Harvard University and diplomacy
courses at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy.
Dr. Davis's recent book publications include Islam, Oil and
Geopolitics coeditor (forthcoming), Chinese Perspectives on
Sino-American Relations (2000) and China and the Law of the Sea
Convention (1995). Her articles have appeared in numerous journals
around the world, including Asian Affairs, The Journal of East
Asian Politics, World Environment Quarterly, Science & Technology
International, Mediterranean Quarterly, Arab Studies Quarterly,
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, and Journal of Contemporary
Asia.
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PUBLICATIONS
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Books
 ISLAM, OIL
AND GEOPOLITICS
Edited
(Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)
 CHINESE
PERSPECTIVES ON SINO-AMERICAN RELATIONS
Edited (Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2000)
 CHINA AND
THE LAW OF THE SEA CONVENTION: FOLLOW THE SEA
(Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 1995)
Articles &
Book Chapters
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"Uyghur
Muslim Separatism in Xinjiang, China" (2008)
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“Terrorism, Geopolitics and Multinational Security Cooperation
in Central Asia” in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC STUDIES
(2006)
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“China in
the Asia-Pacific” in US & RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE
ASIA-PACIFIC, edited by Boris Reznik & Rouben Azizian
(Vladivostok: Far Eastern National University, 2005) in Russian
and (Honolulu: APCSS, 2006) in English.
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“China,
After 1945” in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WESTERN COLONIALISM SINCE 1450,
edited by Thomas Benjamin (Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2006)
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“Beijing
Spring,” “Domino Theory,” “Permanent Normal Trading Relations,”
“Wen Jiabao,” and “World Trade Organization,” in AN HISTORICAL
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SINO-AMERICAN RELATIONS, edited by Song Yuwu
(New York: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2005)
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"New
Perceptions of the International System After 9/11" in
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND CHINA IN TRANSITION v. IV (Beijing:
Renmin University, July 2002
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"ASEAN
Perspectives Toward the Global Environment" (in Chinese)
WORLD ENVIRONMENT vol. 5 (2002)
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"Security
Institutions & Policy-Making Processes in the Asia Pacific
Region" CURRENTS (Spring 2001)
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"Hu
Yaobang" ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN ASIA (presented the RUSA
award) (2001)
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"China" in
DOMESTIC DETERMINANTS OF SECURITY (2001)
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"EU
Perspectives Toward the Global Environment" (in Chinese)
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL (November 2000)
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"U.S.
Perspectives on the Global Environment" (published in Chinese)
WORLD ENVIRONMENT QUARTERLY (Spring 2000)
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"Perilous
Seas? European Union Pollution Policies," MEDITERRANEAN
QUARTERLY Spring 1998
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"An Island
Alone: Taiwan and the Asian Arms Race," THE JOURNAL OF EAST
ASIAN POLITICS v. XI, n. 2 (1997)
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"Structuring An Asian Pacific Foreign Policy," JOURNAL OF
CONTEMPORARY ASIA v. 26, n. 3 (1996)
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"Global
Conflicts in Marine Pollution: The Asian Pacific," THE
JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN POLITICS v. X, n. 1 (Winter/Spring
1996)
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"Who Rules
the Waves? The Arms Race on the Pacific Rim," ASIAN AFFAIRS
v. XXVI, Part III (1995)
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"The
Silent Demise of Democracy: The Clinton Administration and the
1994 Yemeni Civil War," ARAB STUDIES QUARTERLY (1994)
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"China
Looks to the Seas: Contemporary Chinese Policy" VCAS
OCCASIONAL PAPERS v. VI (1989)
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"Frozen
Perceptions: The Cold War in Asia" VCAS OCCASIONAL PAPERS
v. IV (1987)
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"The
Problem With Marine Oil Pollution" in AMERICAN MORAL AND
POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN THE THIRD WORLD, edited by Kenneth W
Thompson (Lanham: University Press of America, 1985)
Book Reviews
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“The
Chinese Communist Party in Reform” a review of Brodsgaard and
Zheng’s THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY IN REFORM published in
CHINA REVIEW INTERNATIONAL vol. no. (Fall 2006)
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"US &
China in Southeast Asia" a review of Wayne Bert’s THE UNITED
STATES, CHINA AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN SECURITY: A CHANGING OF THE
GUARD? published in CHINA REVIEW INTERNATIONAL vol. 11
no. 2 (2005), pp. 9-13
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"China’s
Energy, Food & Environment" a review of Smil Valcav’s CHINA’S
PAST, CHINA’S FUTURE published in CHINA INFORMATION Vol.
19, no. 1 (2005), pp. 150-152
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"US-China
Relations" a review of David M. Lampton's SAME BED DIFFERENT
DREAMS: MANAGING US-CHINA RELATIONS, 1989-2000 published in
CHINA INFORMATION vol. 18 no. 1 (2003), pp. 107-108
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"Chinese
Policy-Making" a review of David M. Lampton's THE MAKING OF
FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY IN THE ERA OF REFORM published in
CHINA INFORMATION vol. 16 no. 2 (2002), pp. 130-131
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"China and
Human Rights" a review of Ming Wan's HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINESE
FOREIGN RELATIONS published in CHINA INFORMATION vol. XV
no.2 (2002)
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"The
Post-Cold War Future of Taiwan" a review of Dennis Van Vranken
Hickey's TAIWAN'S SECURITY (Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienners
Publisher, 1997) published in JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA
(Winter 1998)
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"Hong
Kong" a review of two books, Sir Robin McLaren's BRITAIN'S
RECORD IN HONG KONG (London: The Royal Institute of
International Affairs, 1997) and Roger Buckley's HONG KONG: THE
ROAD TO 1997 published in ASIAN AFFAIRS v. XI (Winter
1997)
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"Rule of
Law in China" a review of Pitman B. Potter's FROM LENIST
DISCIPLINE TO SOCIALIST LEGALISM: PENG ZHEN ON LAW AND POLITICAL
AUTHORITY IN THE PRC (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of
Asia-Pacific Studies, 1995) was published in CHINA
INFORMATION, v. XI (Summer 1996)
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