Bates Gill

Not to be confused with Bill Gates.

Bates Gill
Born
United States[1]
NationalityAmerican
Other names季北慈
EducationAlbion College (BA), University of Virginia (PhD)
Occupation(s)International relations scholar, China specialist
EmployerAsia Society
SpouseSarah Palmer[2]

Bates Gill (/beɪts gɪl/,[3] Chinese: 季北慈) is an American international relations scholar specialized in Chinese foreign policy and politics, currently serving as executive director of Asia Society's Center for China Analysis. He formerly was Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).[4][5][2]

Gill's research has focused on arms control, non-proliferation, peacekeeping and military-technical development related to China and the Asia-Pacific region. His work has also encompassed other contemporary security-related issues including multilateral security organizations, the impact of domestic politics and development on the foreign policies of states, and the nexus of public health and security. Currently, his work focuses on the role of the Chinese Communist Party in the deliberation and implementation of Chinese foreign and security policy, and China's engagement with the Global South.

Education

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Gill holds a PhD in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia (1991).[1][6] His dissertation was titled "Fire of the Dragon: Arms Transfers in Chinese Security Policy," which investigated the relationship between Chinese arms transfers and the country's foreign policy.[7] He received a BA in political science and French from Albion College.[1]

He speaks, reads, and writes Chinese, English, and French.[2]

Career

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He is currently executive director of the Center for China Analysis with the Asia Society Policy Institute[8] and a Senior Associate Fellow with the Royal United Services Institute. Before his current role, he was Professor and chair in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University. He was previously the chief executive officer of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney (2012–2015). Prior to this, he was Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)(2007–2012). Before being named SIPRI Director in 2007, Gill held the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. from 2002.[9] He served as a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and inaugural Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies[9][10] at the Brookings Institution from 1998 to 2002.

He also held the Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China (1992–93) and the Sir Howard Kippenberger Chair in Strategic Studies at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand (2016). In 2013, he received the Royal Order of the Commander of the Polar Star, the highest award bestowed upon foreigners by the Swedish monarch, for his services to Sweden.

Publications

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Books

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  • Daring to Struggle: China's Global Ambitions under Xi Jinping (Oxford University Press, 2022)[11]
  • China Matters: Getting it Right for Australia (Black Inc./La Trobe University Press, 2017), co-authored with Linda Jakobson[12]
  • Governing the Bomb: Civilian Control and Democratic Accountability of Nuclear Weapons (Oxford University Press, 2010), co-edited with Hans Born and Heiner Hänggi[13]
  • Asia's New Multilateralism: Cooperation, Competition, and the Search for Community (Columbia University Press, 2009), co-edited with Michael J. Green[14]
  • Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy (Brookings Institution Press, 2007, revised edition in 2010, published in Japanese in 2014)[15]
  • China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know Now about the Emerging Superpower (PublicAffairs, 2006), co-authored with C. Fred Bergsten, Nicholas R. Lardy, and Derek J. Mitchell[16]
  • Weathering the Storm: Taiwan, Its Neighbors and the Asian Financial Crisis (Brookings Institution Press, 2000), co-edited with Peter C. Y. Chow[17]
  • China’s Arms Acquisitions from Abroad: A Quest for ‘Superb and Secret Weapons (Oxford University Press, 1995), co-authored with Taeho Kim[18]
  • Arms, Transparency and Security in Southeast Asia (Oxford University Press, 1997), co-edited with J. N. Mak[19]
  • Chinese Arms Transfers (Praeger Publishers, 1992)

Articles

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Dr Bates Gill is the new CEO for the US Studies Centre". University of Sydney. 28 March 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "Biography: Dr. Bates Gill - Site". SIPRI. Archived from the original on 27 June 2009. Retrieved 12 June 2009.
  3. ^ Reconciling Communist Modernity in China NPR 19 April 2006
  4. ^ Flannery, Russell. "Bates Gill Named To China Post At Asia Society Amid Rise In Great Power Competition". Forbes. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Bates Gill new SIPRI Director". Swedish Government Offices; Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2008.
  6. ^ "Dr. Bates Gill". Strategic Studies Institute. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2008.
  7. ^ "Scientific Commons: Fire of the dragon :--arms transfers in Chinese security policy /--Robert Bates Gill. (1991) [Gill, Bates]". Archived from the original on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2009.
  8. ^ Asia Society Announces Appointment of Bates Gill as the Executive Director of the Center for China Analysis." Asia Society. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  9. ^ a b "Bates Gill". US-China Economic Review Commission. Archived from the original on 20 September 2008. Retrieved 16 August 2008.
  10. ^ "Bates Gill Named Director Of New Brookings Center On Northeast Asia Policy Studies". The Brookings Institution. Archived from the original on 2 November 2007. Retrieved 18 August 2008.
  11. ^ Gill, Bates (2022). Daring to struggle: China's global ambitions under Xi Jinping. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-754564-5.
  12. ^ China Matters by Linda Jakobson, Bates Gill. 6 July 2016.
  13. ^ "Governing the Bomb: Civilian Control and Democratic Accountability of Nuclear Weapons". ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  14. ^ Green, Michael J.; Gill, Bates, eds. (25 February 2009). Asia's New Multilateralism: Cooperation, Competition, and the Search for Community. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-51341-8.
  15. ^ Gill, Bates (2010). Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 978-0-8157-0453-9. JSTOR 10.7864/j.ctt6wpdct.
  16. ^ Bergsten, C. Fred; Gill, Bates; Lardy, Nicholas R.; Mitchell, Derek J. (17 April 2006). China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know Now About the Emerging Superpower. Peterson Institute for International Economics. ISBN 978-1-58648-464-4.
  17. ^ Chow, Peter C. Y.; Gill, Bates, eds. (2000). Weathering the storm: Taiwan, its neighbors, and the Asian financial crisis. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 978-0-8157-1399-9.
  18. ^ China's Arms Acquisitions from Abroad: A Quest for 'Superb and Secret Weapons'. Oxford University Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-19-829195-4.
  19. ^ Arms, Transparency and Security in South-East Asia. Oxford University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-19-829285-2.
  20. ^ "Opinion | US-China ties: Blinken must seize chance to halt downward spiral". South China Morning Post. 4 February 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
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