SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (Updated June 3, 2015)
1) Energy, Health, Water, and Food Safety Risks and Chinese Foreign Policy
China’s Risk: Oil, Water, Food and Regional Security, (under contract by Columbia University
Press, series on Contemporary Asia and the World, forthcoming 2016).
Review in Book Review Roundtable of Elizabeth C. Economy and Michael Levi, By All Means
Necessary: How China’s Quest for Resources Is Changing the World (Oxford University Press,
2014), Asia Policy, 18(July 2014):161-180.
“Safe Harbor in a Risky World? China’s Approach to Managing Food Safety Risk,” in Robert M.
Hathaway and Michael Wills, Managing New Security Risks in Asia, Washington, D.C:
Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2013.
“Food Security and Food Safety in China’s Foreign Policy,” in Wu Guogang, ed. China’s
Challenges to Human Security: Foreign Relations and Global Implications, forthcoming
London: Routledge, 2012.
“The Amur River Basin: A Region at Risk? Environmental and Political Consequences of
Chemical Spills in the Songhua River,” Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the AmurOkhotsk Consortium: Towards the Sharing of Environmental Data in the Pan Okhotsk Region,
Amur-Okhotsk Consortium, Hokkaido, Japan, March 2012.
“Dilemmas of Securitization and Health Risk Management in the People’s Republic of China:
The Cases of SARS and Avian Flu,” Health Policy and Planning, Vol. 25, Issue 6 November
2010, pp. 454-466.
“Competition and Cooperative Practices in Sino-Japanese Energy and Environmental Relations:
Towards an Energy Security ‘Risk Community’?” Pacific Review Vol. 22, No. 4, September
2009, pp. 399-426.
“Of Milk and Spacemen: The Paradox of Chinese Power in an Era of Risk, The Brown Journal
of World Affairs, Vol. XV, Issue II, Spring/Summer 2009, pp. 211-224.
“Energy in Northeast Asia: Resources for Conflict or Cooperation? An Introduction” East Asia,
Vol. 25, No. 1, Spring 2008 pp. 1-5.
China as a Risk Society, Working Paper No. 12, September 2005, East-West Center Politics,
Governance, and Security Series.
2) Chinese Foreign Policy toward Russia and Central Asia
“Russia and China Go Sailing: Superpower on Display in the Eastern Mediterranean,” Foreign
Affairs, May 27, 2015, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2015-05-26/russia-andchina-go-sailing.
“Post-2014 Afghanistan Policy and the Limitations of China’s Global Role,” Central Asian
Affairs (inaugural issue), Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2014, 133-152.
“There Goes the Neighborhood: Afghanistan’s Challenges to China’s Regional Security Goals,”
Brown Journal of World Affairs, Fall-Winter 2012.
“The Constraints of Partnership: China’s Approach to Afghanistan,” PONARS Eurasia Policy
Memo No. 219, September 2012, http://www.ponarseurasia.org/memo/constraints-partnershipschina%E2%80%99s-approach-afghanistan
“1980 shidai zaoqi Sulian dui Zhongguo zhengce yanxu he bianhua de yali,” [Pressures for
Continuity and Changes in Sino-Soviet Relations in the early 1980s] in eds. Shen Zhihua and
Douglas A. Stiffler, Cuiruo de lianmeng: lengzhan yu ZhongSu guanxi [Fragile Alliance: The
Cold War and Sino-Soviet Relations], Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2010. [This is a
Chinese translation of a chapter from my book Mending Fences.]
“Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership: View from China,” in James Bellacqua, ed. China-Russia
Relations in the Early 21st Century, Louisville: University of Kentucky Press, January 2010.
“The Securitization of Chinese Migration to Russia: Rhetoric and Reality,” In eds. Melissa
Curley and Wong Siu-lun, Migration and Securitisation in East Asia, Routledge Press, 2008.
“Migration and Economic Security: Chinese Labor Migrants in the Russian Far East,” in eds.
Tsuneo Akaha and Anna Vassilieva eds., Crossing National Borders: International Migration
and Human Security Issues in Northeast Asia, Brookings/United Nations University Press, 2005.
3) Great Power Relations in Asia
China’s Interests and Goals in the Arctic, U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute,
forthcoming 2015.
Russia, China, and the U.S. in Central Asia: Competition and Cooperation in the Shadow of the
Georgian Crisis, Paper commissioned by Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College,
February 2009.
The Strategic Consequences of the Iraq War: U.S. Security Interests in Central Asia Reassessed,
U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, May 2004.
Growing U.S. Security Interests in Central Asia, U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies
Institute, October 2002.
Mending Fences with China: The Evolution of Moscow's China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin
(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001).
4) Russia in Asia
“Russia and the CIS in 2015,” Asian Survey, forthcoming January-February 2016.
“Russia and the CIS in 2006, Asian Survey, January-February 2007, pp. 58-67.
“Russia and the CIS in 2005,” Asian Survey, January-February 2006, pp. 69-78.
One Asia Policy or Two? Moscow and the Russian Far East Debate Russia’s Asia Policy, NBR
Analysis, Vol. 13, No. 1, March 2002.
“Russia in Inter-Korean Relations,” in Samuel S. Kim, ed. Inter-Korean Relations, (Palgrave
2004).
5) Policy Blogs
“The ‘Power of Siberia’: No Longer a Pipe Dream,” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo 332,
August 2014, http://www.ponarseurasia.org/memo/%E2%80%9Cpower-siberia%E2%80%9Dno-longer-pipe-dream
“In Visit to Central Asia, Chinese President Shows Off ‘Silk Road Economic Belt,’” PONARS
Eurasia, September 16, 2013 http://www.ponarseurasia.org/articles/category/policy-blogs“Russia: New Player in the South China Sea?” July 27, 2013,
http://russiancouncil.ru/en/blogs/dvfu/?id_4=592
“Russia: New Player in the South China Sea?” July 8, 2013, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No.
260, http://www.ponarseurasia.org/node/6277
“Afghanistan and U.S.-China Relations,” China-US Focus (Hong Kong), August 4, 2011.