ALASTAIR IAIN JOHNSTON
Government Department, Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street, Rm 238
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.496.3965
johnston@fas.harvard.edu
1. Positions

Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Government Department
Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Faculty Associate, Olin Institute for Strategic Studies
Faculty Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research

 
2. Research Interests
socialization; the 'measurement' of identity; Chinese foreign policy; East Asian security.
 
3. Courses

Gov 90ia:Sino-US Relations in an Era of Rising Chinese Power
Gov 1760: International Relations of East Asia
Gov 1982: Chinese Foreign Policy 1949-2005
Gov 2140: Identity in History and Politics
Gov 2732: Critical Approaches to Critical International Relations Theory
Gov 2791: Comparative and Foreign and Security Policies
Gov 2880: International Relations Theory and the Study of Chinese Foreign Policy
Gov 2882: Chinese Strategic Thought (Ancient and Modern)

 
4. Misc. Draft Papers, Presentations, and Projects

Legitimacy,Foreign Policy and the Sources of Realpolitik
Harvard Identity Project
Treating Identity as a Variable
The Cox Report
The Taiwan Problem: A Modest Proposal
The Sources of Conflict in the Sino-US Arms Control Relationship
Contextualizing the Concept of a Shashoujian (Assassin's Mace)
SunZi Studies in the United States
Beijing’s Security Behavior in the Asian-Pacific: Is China a Dissatisfied Power?
American Scholarship on China's Participation in International Institutions (in Chinese)
The Effect of International Institutions on State Behavior (in Chinese)
Chinese attitudes toward the United States and Americans
 

 
5. CV
 
6. Some useful links

Chinese Foreign Policy
Taylor Fravel's Chinese foreign policy links
Center for Nonproliferation's China Profile Database
Chinese Military Power web page (Project on Defense Alternatives)
Council on Foreign Relations Chinese Military Task Force report
Institute of World Economics and Politics (Beijing)
Asia-Pacific Institute (Beijing)
School of International Studies (Peking University)
Shanghai Institute of International Studies
School of International Relations and Public Affairs (Fudan University)
Science and Arms Control Program (Qinghua University)
International Relations in China (Nankai University)
China Academy of Engineering Physics
People's Liberation Army Daily
Huanqiushibao(Global Times)
Guofang keji jianxun(National defense technology bulletin)
Jianchuan zhishi (Ship knowledge)
Shijie Zhishi (World Knowledge)
China Strategy Research (Taiwan)
Yuanjing jijinhui jikan (Prospect Quarterly) (Taiwan)
Taiwan Security Research
International Relations studies in China

World politics research
World politics research tools (Paul Hensel's web page)
Correlates of War
Correlates of War 2
Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research
Social Science Automation
National Security Archive
Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy
Advanced Research on the Europeanisation of the Nation State (ARENA)
Research on identity theory(Peter Burke's web page)
 

7. black sabbatical