Ming Wan
Associate Professor

Email: mwan@mail.gmu.edu
Tel: 703-993-2955

BIO: Ming Wan is an associate professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University. His Ph.D. was from the Government Department, Harvard University, in 1993. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard from the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Pacific Basin Research Center, and has been a visiting research scholar at Tsukuba University. He has published two books: Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations: Defining and Defending National Interests (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001) and Japan Between Asia and the West: Economic Power and Strategic Balance (M.E. Sharpe, 2001). He has also published in journals such as Asian Survey, Orbis, Pacific Affairs and International Studies Quarterly and in edited volumes. His current research interests include political economy of East Asia and Sino-Japanese relations.

COURSES TAUGHT: International political economy, East Asian political economy, Chinese and Japanese foreign policy, East Asian international relations.

CURRENT RESEARCH: Current research interests are Sino-Japanese relations and East Asian political economy.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations: Defining and Defending National Interests (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001) and Japan Between Asia and the West: Economic Power and Strategic Balance (M.E. Sharpe, 2001).