Steve Chan

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Education

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Minnesota, 1976
M.A., Political Science, University of Minnesota, 1973
B.A., Tulane University, 1970

Regional and Thematic Interests

East Asia
Government/Political Systems

Profile

STEVE CHAN 陳思德is College Professor of Distinction Emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was the Director of Farrand Residential Academic Program, Chair of the Political Science Department, and Director of the International Affairs Program at that institution.  He received the Karl W. Deutsch award of the International Studies Association, Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Excellence in Research, and CU Parents Association's Marinus Smith Award for excellence in teaching. He can be contacted at steve.chan@colorado.edu.

Chan’s research interests focus on international relations, political economy, foreign policy, decision-making, and East Asia. While a political scientist specializing in international relations and concentrating mostly on Sino-American relations in his recent research, his approach has been deliberately cross-national and interdisciplinary, relating to anthropology, economics, geography, history, psychology, public administration, and sociology—as a glance at his publications’ titles from his full c.v. will attest.

His publications include twenty-eight books and about two hundred articles and chapters.  His articles have appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Security Studies, and World Politics. In addition to these journals published in the U.S., his articles have appeared in venues in Britain, China, Denmark, Japan, Korea, Norway, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Spain, and Taiwan.

He is also a co-editor, along with Kai He and Rumi Aoyama, for the Cambridge University Press’s Elements Series for Indo-Pacific Security.

Selected Publications

Steve Chan and William R. Thompson, eds., Second Image Revisited: Domestic Politics and the Management of Great Power Relations, in preparation

Steve Chan and Weixing Hu, In Search of a New Grand Bargain: Persistent Continuities and Changing Circumstances in Pacific Asia. Looking for a home

Steve Chan, ed., Gauging China’s Influence Abroad: Theory and Practice, under review at Cambridge University Press

Steve Chan, Punctuated Equilibria and Sino-American Relations: Lulls and Lurches across the Pacific (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Steve Chan, Fuses, Chains, and Backlashes: China, the United States, and the Dynamics of Conflict Contagion and Escalation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Steve Chan, Mobilizing the Past: The Lessons of History and the Danger of War between China and the United States (Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming).

2013 Enduring Rivalries in the Asia Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2012 Looking for Balance: China, the United States and Power Balancing in East Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

2008 China, the U.S. and The Power-Transition Theory: A Critique. London: Routledge.