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Bates gill reflects on his time as sipri director
Dr. Bates Gill (/beɪts gɪl/, 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).
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- Bates gill reflects on his time as sipri director
- Bates gill on the us pivot to asia and the rise of china
- Education
- Professional life
- Books
- Professional Affiliations
- Personal life
- References
Dr 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.
Bates gill on the us pivot to asia and the rise of china
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. His thesis investigated the role of weapons transfer in forming the foreign policy of China and was entitled "Fire of the Dragon: Arms Transfers in Chinese Security Policy". He received his B.A from Albion College, Michigan with a double major in Political Science and French. He speaks, reads and writes Chinese, English, and French.
Professional life
Dr Bates Gill has a 30-year international career as an educator, scholar, and policy advisor. An academically-trained and internationally-respected China specialist, he has led a global top-ten think tank and held academic and research positions at world-leading universities and public policy research institutions in the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific.
He is currently a professor affiliated with the Department of Security Studies at Macquarie University and the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at Australian National University. 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. He served as a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and inaugural Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., from 1998 to 2002.
Before his work at Brookings, Dr. Gill's previous assignments included directing the East Asia programmes at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, in Monterey, California. He also held the Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies, at Nanjing University in China. For his work with Johns Hopkins University and his subsequent accomplishments, he was inducted to the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars in 2007. In 2013, he received the Royal Order of the Commander of the Polar Star, the highest chivalric order a foreigner can receive in Sweden. It was bestowed by His Highness the King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf for Gill's service to Sweden.
Books
Dr. Gill is author, co-author or editor of nine books:
He was also the publisher of the SIPRI Yearbook during his tenure as SIPRI Director. http://www.sipriyearbook.org/
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Personal life
Bates Gill has been married to Dr. Sarah Palmer, a virologist, since 1986. In addition to the United States, they have lived and worked for lengthy periods in Australia, China, Switzerland, Sweden, and Taiwan, and visited over 60 countries for professional and personal travel. He plays harmonica and sings for the Batesville Blues Band, a group formed among friends more than 30 years ago in Batesville, Virginia, south of Charlottesville, and which holds annual reunion appearances in locations up and down the U.S. East Coast.