Suisheng (Sam) Zhao

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Institutional Affiliation 

 Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, 1992
• Post-doctoral/middle-career Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1999-2000
• M.A., Political Science, University of California, 1988
• M.A., Sociology, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1986
• M.A., Economics, Peking University, 1981
• B.A., Economics, Peking University, 1976

Regional and Thematic Interests

Asia-Pacific regional security, US-China Relations, and Chinese Foreign Policy, Chinese politics, Chinese nationalism, East Asian international relations and Asian regionalism.

Profile

Suisheng Zhao is a Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver. A Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, he is the founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary China and the author and editor of over two dozen books and hundreds of academic articles. His most recent book is The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2023 and was named one of “Best of Books 2024” by Foreign Affairs magazine. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California-San Diego, an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Missouri, and a BA and M.A. in economics from Peking University.

Authored Books