"China's Changing Challenge to the US and Taiwan" by NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER

NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER
Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University
and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
"China's Changing Challenge to the US and Taiwan"
Location: The Multicultural Center Resource Room, Bryan Center
Duke West Campus
Time: September 26, 2008, 3:30-5:00 pm


Nancy Bernkopf Tucker is Professor of History at Georgetown University
and at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is an
American diplomatic historian who specializes in American-East Asian
relations, particularly United States relations with China, Taiwan
and Hong Kong. In 2007 she received a National Intelligence Medal of
Achievement for distinguished meritorious service as the first
Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analytic
Integrity and Standards and Analytic Ombudsman in the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence. In 1986-87, she served in the
Office of Chinese Affairs in the Department of State and at the U.S.
Embassy in Beijing. Previously she taught at Colgate University and
New York University. She has been a fellow at the Institute for
Advanced Study, the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio Study Center),
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the United
States Institute of Peace, Harvard University, and the Chinese Academy
of Social Sciences as well as a Council on Foreign Relations
International Affairs Fellow and recipient of generous research
support from the Smith Richardson Foundation. She has been a member of
the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Historical
Diplomatic Documentation and the boards of the Institute for the Study
of Diplomacy and the National Committee on US-China Relations and is a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her Ph.D. is from Columbia
University. Her book on the strategic and political history of
US-Taiwan relations since 1969 Strait Talk: US-Taiwan Relations and
the Crisis with China will be published in 2008 and her edited volume
on contemporary problems in US-Taiwan-China relations and Taiwan
affairs Dangerous Straits came out in 2005. She is the author of
Uncertain Friendships: Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States,
1945-1992 -- winner of a 1996 Bernath Book Prize of the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations, Patterns in the Dust:
Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950,
co-edited Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World and edited and annotated
China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations.
Her essays have appeared in more than a dozen edited books and various
journals including Foreign Affairs, Journal of American History,
American Historical Review, Survival, Political Science Quarterly,
Diplomatic History and the Washington Quarterly.