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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Pillsbury is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, and an Honorary Councilor of the Atlantic Council of the United States, where he is sponsored by the Office of Net Assessment, Department of Defense. During the Reagan administration, Dr. Pillsbury was the Assistant Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning; under President Bush he was Special Assistant for Asian Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, reporting to Andrew W. Marshall, Director of Net Assessment. Previously he served on the staff of several U.S. Senate Committees.

In 1975-76, while an analyst at The RAND Corporation, he published articles in Foreign Policy and International Security recommending that the United States establish intelligence and military ties with China. The proposal, publicly commended by Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, and James Schlesinger, later became U.S. policy.

Dr. Pillsbury studied Mandarin Chinese for two years at the Stanford Center in Taipei, Taiwan, under a doctoral dissertation fellowship of the National Science Foundation. He earned a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught graduate courses in Chinese foreign policy at Georgetown University, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, and the Naval Postgraduate School. Dr. Pillsbury is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

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