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Dr. Paul Bolt

Professor of Political Science

Department of Political Science

Paul Bolt
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Bio

Dr. Paul Bolt is a Professor of Political Science at the United States Air Force Academy, where he has taught since 1997. He received his B.A. from Hope College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught at Zhejiang University and Baicheng Normal College in the People’s Republic of China, as well as the University of Illinois. In 2009-2010 he served as a Fulbright scholar at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Dr. Bolt teaches courses in Asian politics, defense policy, American government, American grand strategy, and comparative politics. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and chapters relating to Asia and defense policy.

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Illinois, Illinois (1996)

Master of Arts, Political Science, University of Illinois, Illinois (1992)

Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, Hope College, Michigan (1986)

Professional Experience

Professor of Political Science, U.S. Air Force Academy (2002-present)

Fulbright Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University (2009-2010)

Associate Professor of Political Science, U.S. Air Force Academy (1999-2002)

Assistant Professor of Political Science, U.S. Air Force Academy (1997-1999)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois (1996-1997)

Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant, and Instructor: University of Illinois (1990-1996)

Instructor, Baicheng Normal College, Baicheng City, Jilin Province, People's Republic of China (1989-1990)

Instructor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China (1986-1988)

Honors & Awards

United States Air Force, Institute for National Security Studies Maj Gen Robert E. Linhard Award for Outstanding Research (2013)

Fulbright Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, (2009-2010)

United States Air Force, Institute for National Security Studies Maj Gen Robert E. Linhard Award for best research paper (2007)

U.S. Air Force Academy, McDermott Award for Faculty Research Excellence in Social Sciences and Humanities (2006)

Outstanding Academy Educator, Department of Political Science, U.S. Air Force Academy (1998-1999)

Research and Scholarly Interests

Asian politics, defense policy

Publications

China's Strategic Arsenal: Worldview, Doctrine, and Systems (co-edited with James Smith).  Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2021.

China, Russia, and Twenty-First Century Global Geopolitics (co-authored with Sharyl N. Cross). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

“Cyberpower and Cross-Strait Security” (with Benjamin Shearn). In Globalization and Security Relations across the Taiwan Strait: In the Shadow of Power, eds. Monique Chu and Scott Kastner. London: Routledge, 2015, 158-182.

“Sino-Russian Relations in a Changing World Order.” Strategic Studies Quarterly 8, no. 4 (Winter 2014): 48-70.

“Contemporary Sino-Southeast Asian Relations.” China: An International Journal 9, no. 2 (September 2011): 246-265.

“The Contemporary Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership: Challenges and Opportunities for the Twenty-First Century” (with Sharyl Cross). Asian Security 6, no. 3 (Fall 2010): 191-213.

The United States, Russia and China: Confronting Global Terrorism and Security Challenges in the 21st Century (co-edited with Sharyl Cross and Su Changhe). Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2008.

“Chinese, American, and Russian Security Policies: The Response to Terrorism” (with Robin Bowman, Su Changhe, and David Sacko). In The United States, Russia and China: Confronting Global Terrorism and Security Challenges in the 21st Century, eds. Paul J. Bolt, Su Changhe, and Sharyl Cross. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2008, 8-29.

“China’s National Security Strategy” (with Adam K. Gray). Institute for National Security Studies Research Papers, https://www.usafa.edu/df/inss/researchpapersbody.cfm, 2007.

“Looking to the Diaspora: The Overseas Chinese and China’s Economic Development, 1978-1994.” In Chinese Overseas, vol. 4, ed. Liu Hong. Oxford: Routledge, 2006, 76-104.

“In Search of a Community of Interests: The Emerging U.S. Strategy in East Asia” (with Preston Arnold). In The Emerging East Asian Community: Security and Economic Issues, eds. Lee Poh Ping, Tham Siew Yean and George T. Yu. Bangi, Malaysia: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2006, 83-107.
China’s Nuclear Future (co-edited with Albert S. Willner). Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006.

“China’s Nuclear Future in a Changing Environment” (with Albert S. Willner). In China’s Nuclear Future, ed. Paul J. Bolt and Albert S. Willner. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006, 1-12.

American Defense Policy (co-edited with Collins G. Shackelford and Damon Coletta). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

“Information Warfare Across the Taiwan Strait” (with Carl Brenner). Journal of Contemporary China 13, no. 38 (February 2004): 129-150.

“Northeast Asia: Japan, China, and the Two Koreas” (with Thomas Drohan and William Berry). Airman Scholar VIII, no. 1 (Fall 2002): 28-34.

“Taiwan-China Economic Cooperation: Ties that Bind?” In The United States and Cross-Straits Relations: China, Taiwan and the US Entering a New Century, ed. Kenneth Klinkner. Champaign, IL: Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois, 2001, 194-219.

“Economic Ties Across the Taiwan Strait: Buying Time for Compromise.” Issues and Studies 37, no. 2 (March/April 2001): 80-105.

China and Southeast Asia’s Ethnic Chinese: State and Diaspora in Contemporary Asia. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2000.

“Northeast Asian Economic Cooperation: The Role of the United States” (with George T. Yu). In Mongolia and Northeast Asia: Economic Development and Regional Cooperation, eds. Peter Schran and George T. Yu. Champaign, IL: Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois, 1999, 50-69.

“Taiwan-Mainland China Relations in the 1990s: Integration Theory, Competitive Politics, and Prospects for Reunification” (with George T. Yu). In Taiwan on the Move: Conference Proceedings, eds. Lai Jeh-hang and George T. Yu. Chungli, Republic of China: Institute of History, National Central University, 1998, 559-580.

“Chinese Diaspora Entrepreneurship, Development, and the World Capitalist System.” Diaspora 6, no. 2 (Fall 1997): 215-235.

“Looking to the Diaspora: The Overseas Chinese and China's Economic Development, 1978-1994.” Diaspora 5, no. 3 (Winter 1996): 467-496.

“The New Economic Partnership Between China and Singapore.” Asian Affairs 23, no. 3 (Summer 1996): 83-99.