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Faculty Affiliate Dr. Joshua Eisenman

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Dr. Joshua Eisenman (马佳士) is assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs and senior fellow for China studies at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC. Between 2003-2005 he served as a professional policy analyst on the congressionally-mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He has also worked as fellow at the New America Foundation and assistant director of China studies at the Center for the National Interest (formally The Nixon Center).

Dr. Eisenman's second book, China and Africa: A Century of Engagement (University of Pennsylvania Press) coauthored with former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia David H. Shinn, was named one of the top three books on Africa in 2012 by Foreign Affairs magazine. In 2007, he co-edited China and the Developing World: Beijing's Strategy for the 21st Century (ME Sharpe) with U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar Derek J. Mitchell and Eric Heginbotham. His work on Chinese politics and international relations has appeared in The National Interest, Current History, the International Herald Tribune, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek. Dr. Eisenman has lectured at numerous venues around the world, including the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard University, the Asia Society in Hong Kong, and the Central Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
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Dr. Eisenman holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a BA in East Asian Studies from The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.

See Dr. Eisenman's CV here.
Email:  eisenman@utexas.edu

Selected Recent Publications:
  • Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under the Commune, Cornell University Press, (Under review).
  • China’s Strategy in the Developing World: Objectives, Methods and Implications, London: Routledge, forthcoming 2016. [Coeditor Eric Heginbotham]
  • China and Africa: A Century of Engagement, University of Pennsylvania Press, May 2012. [Coauthor David Shinn] Chinese version: Chinese University of Hong Kong University Press, forthcoming 2016.
  • China and the Developing World: Beijing’s Strategy for the Twenty-First Century, ME Sharpe, 2007. [Coeditors Eric Heginbotham and Derek Mitchell] [Republished by Routledge in 2015]
  • “Beyond Engagement? Rethinking America’s China Policy,” Journal of Contemporary China, 1 Mar 2016.
  • “China-Africa Trade: Causes and Consequences,” in China in Africa: Strategic Motives and Economic Interests, ed. Suisheng Zhao, Routledge, 2015.
  • “China’s Africa Strategy: Objectives, Methods and Implications,” in China’s Strategy in the Developing World, forthcoming 2016. [Coauthor David Shinn]
  • “Editors’ Introduction,” in China’s Strategy in the Developing World, forthcoming 2016. [Coauthored with Eric Heginbotham]
  • “China-Africa Trade: Causes, Consequences, and Perceptions,” in Africa and China: How Africans and their Governments are Shaping Relations with China, ed. Aleksandra Gadzala, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 

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