China-US Relations
About the Speakers
Dr. Shen Dingli
Dr. Shen Dingli is a Professor and Former Executive Dean at Fudan University’s Institute of International Studies, and Former Director of Fudan’s Center for American Studies. He is also an Honorary Visiting Professor of Washington University in St. Louis. His research and publication cover China-US security relations, regional security and international strategy, arms control and nonproliferation, foreign and defense policy of China and the US etc. He is Vice President of Chinese Association of South Asian Studies, and Shanghai Association of American Studies. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Fudan in 1989 and did post-doc in arms control at Princeton University from 1989-1991. He was an Eisenhower Fellow in 1996, and advised in 2002 the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan for his strategic planning. He is on the Global Council of Asia Society. He has co-edited 17 books and published over 2,500 papers and articles worldwide.
Prof. Walter K Andersen
Walter K Andersen is Professor of South Asia Studies, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining the SAIS, he served as chief of the US State Department’s South Asia Division in the Office of Analysis for the Near East and South Asia. The author published numerous books and articles throughout his career, ‘The Brotherhood in Saffron’, ‘RSS’ and many. Andersen earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. As a part of his field work, he lived in India for four years from late 1960s through early 1970s. There he came in contact with Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP, the student wing of RSS). That association led to an introduction to M. S. Golwalker – the head of RSS. His scholarship has focussed on the RSS and Indian politics. He considers Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph as his mentors.
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