Andrew Scobell, Ph.D. was recently Senior Political Scientist at RAND’s Washington, DC office and Adjunct Professor of Asian Studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Prior to this he was a tenured faculty member at the George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service and Director of the China Certificate Program at Texas A&M University located in College Station, Texas. From 1999 until 2007, he was Associate Research Professor in the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College both located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Dr. Scobell earned a doctorate in political science from Columbia University. He is co-author of China’s Search for Security (Columbia University Press, 2012); author of China’s Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March (Cambridge University Press, 2003), more than a dozen monographs and reports, as well as many journal articles and book chapters. He has also edited or co-edited more than a dozen volumes on various aspects of security in the Asia-Pacific region, including PLA Influence on China’s National Security Policymaking (Stanford University Press, 2015).
In recent years, Dr. Scobell has delivered presentations at Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, the Seoul Defense Dialogue in Korea, the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and the IISS in London. Inside the Beltway, he has briefed senior officials in the White House, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Intelligence Community, and testified on Capitol Hill. Dr. Scobell was born and raised in Hong Kong and regularly makes research trips to the region.
Andrew Scobell, Ph.D. was recently Senior Political Scientist at RAND’s Washington, DC office and Adjunct Professor of Asian Studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Prior to this he was a tenured faculty member at the George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service and Director of the China Certificate Program at Texas A&M University located in College Station, Texas. From 1999 until 2007, he was Associate Research Professor in the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College both located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Dr. Scobell earned a doctorate in political science from Columbia University. He is co-author of China’s Search for Security (Columbia University Press, 2012); author of China’s Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March (Cambridge University Press, 2003), more than a dozen monographs and reports, as well as many journal articles and book chapters. He has also edited or co-edited more than a dozen volumes on various aspects of security in the Asia-Pacific region, including PLA Influence on China’s National Security Policymaking (Stanford University Press, 2015).
In recent years, Dr. Scobell has delivered presentations at Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, the Seoul Defense Dialogue in Korea, the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and the IISS in London. Inside the Beltway, he has briefed senior officials in the White House, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Intelligence Community, and testified on Capitol Hill. Dr. Scobell was born and raised in Hong Kong and regularly makes research trips to the region.