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Professor Emeritus Steve Chan

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Steve Chan is College Professor of Distinction Emeritus and formerly chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research interests focus on international relations, political economy, foreign policy, decision-making, East Asia, and especially Sino-American relations. His publications include thirty books and over two hundred articles and chapters. His recent books are The Future of Pacific Asia (Routledge, 2026, co-authored with Weixing Hu); Gauging China’s Influence Abroad (Cambridge University Press, 2026); Mobilizing the Past (Stanford University Press, 2025); Punctuated Equilibria and Sino-American Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2025); Fuses, Chains, and Backlashes (Oxford University Press, 2025); Geography and International Conflict (Routledge, 2025; co-authored with Weixing Hu); Taiwan and the Danger of a Sino-American War (Cambridge University Press, 2024); Culture, Economic Growth, and Interstate Power Shifts (Cambridge University Press, 2024); Rumbles of Thunder (Columbia University Press, 2022); Contesting Revisionism (Oxford University Press, 2021; co-authored with Huiyun Feng, Kai He, and Weixing Hu); and Thucydides’ Trap? (University of Michigan Press, 2020).