The “Sino-US Relations after President Bush” Seminar, organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Macau will be held between 10:30 am and 12:00 noon at the American Corner, University of Macau Library, on 16 July 2008 (Wednesday). The seminar will be conducted by Prof. Robert Sutter, a specialist in Asian and Pacific Affairs and US foreign policy.
Prof. Sutter was specialized in Asian and Pacific Affairs and US foreign policy in a US government career of 33 years involving the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was for many years the Senior Specialist and Director of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division of the Congressional Research Service. He was also the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and the Pacific at the US Government’s National Intelligence Council, and the China Division Director at the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
A Ph.D. graduate in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University, Robert Sutter taught part-time for over thirty years at Georgetown, George Washington, Johns Hopkins Universities, or the University of Virginia. His current full-time position is Visiting Professor of Asian Studies at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He has published 16 books, numerous articles and several hundred government reports dealing with contemporary East Asian and Pacific countries and their relations with the United States. His most recent book is Chinese Foreign Relations: Power and Policy since the Cold War (Rowman and Littlefield 2007).
The Seminar will be conducted in English and open to the public.