Bates Gill

Bates Gill (/beɪts gɪl/,[2] Chinese: 季北慈, born 1959) is an expert on Chinese foreign policy and a former Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).[3][4]

Not to be confused with Bill Gates

Bates Gill
Born1959
United States[1]
OccupationPolitical analyst, author
Nationality United States
EducationB.A. Political Science, Albion College, Michigan[1]
M.A. Foreign Affairs, Ph.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville[1]

Gill has a long record of research and publication on both international and regional security issues. These include arms control, non-proliferation, peacekeeping and military-technical development—and all mainly with regard to China and the Asia-Pacific region. In recent years his work has broadened to encompass other contemporary security-related trends 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 Chinese foreign and security policy, U.S.-China relations, and the U.S. role in Asia.

Education

Gill received his Ph.D in Foreign Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville in 1991.[1][5] His thesis investigated the relationship between Chinese arms transfers and the country's foreign policy, and was entitled "Fire of the Dragon: Arms Transfers in Chinese Security Policy".[6] He received his B.A from Albion College, Michigan with a double major in Political Science and French.[1] He speaks, reads and writes Chinese, English, and French.[4]

Professional life

He is currently a Professor with the Department of Security Studies at Macquarie University and a Senior Associate Fellow with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London. 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.[7] He served as a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and inaugural Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies[7][8] at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., from 1998 to 2002.

Before his work at Brookings, Gill's previous assignments included directing East Asia programmes at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies,[8] in Monterey, California. He also held the Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics[8]

Selected works

Books

Gill is author, co-author or editor of nine books:

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

He was also the publisher of the SIPRI Yearbook during his tenure as SIPRI Director. SIPRI Yearbook Online: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security

References
  1. Dr Bates Gill is the new CEO for the US Studies Centre Foreign Affairs 28 March 2012
  2. Reconciling Communist Modernity in China NPR 19 April 2006
  3. "Bates Gill new SIPRI Director". Swedish Government Offices; Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
  4. "Biography: Dr. Bates Gill - Site". SIPRI. Archived from the original on 27 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
  5. "Dr. Bates Gill". Strategic Studies Institute. Retrieved 2008-08-17.
  6. "Scientific Commons: Fire of the dragon :--arms transfers in Chinese security policy /--Robert Bates Gill. (1991) [Gill, Bates]". Retrieved 2009-06-14.
  7. "BATES GILL". US-China Economic Review Commission. Archived from the original on 20 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-16.
  8. "Bates Gill Named Director Of New Brookings Center On Northeast Asia Policy Studies". The Brookings Institution. Archived from the original on 2007-11-02. Retrieved 2008-08-18.
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