M. Taylor Fravel
M. TAYLOR FRAVEL is the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science and member of the Security Studies Program at MIT. He studies international relations, with a focus on international security, China and East Asia. His publications have appeared in International Security, Foreign Affairs, The China Quarterly, The Washington Quarterly, Journal of Strategic Studies, Armed Forces & Society, Current History, and Asian Survey as well as in edited volumes. His book, Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes, was published by Princeton University Press in 2008. Taylor is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University, where he received his PhD. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, a Predoctoral Fellow the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, a fellow with the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also has graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Courses
Selected Articles
- "China's Search for Military Power," The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Summer 2008), pp. 125-141.
- "Power Shifts and Escalation: Explaining China's Use of Force in Territorial Disputes," International Security, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Winter 2007/08), pp. 44-83.
- "Securing Borders: China's Doctrine and Force Structure for Frontier Defense," Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 30, No. 4-5, August 2007.
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"Correspondence: Structural Sources of China's Territorial Compromises," International Security, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Fall 2006)
- "Regime
Insecurity and International Cooperation: Explaining China's Compromises
in Territorial Disputes," International Security, Vol.
30, No. 2 (Fall 2005)
- "The Evolution of China's Military Strategy," in David Finkelstein
and James C. Mulvenon, eds., China's Revolution in Doctrinal Affairs, (Alexandria:
Center for Naval Analysis, 2005)
- "China's New Diplomacy," Foreign
Affairs, Vol. 82, No. 6 (November/December
2003) (with Evan S. Medeiros)
- "The Revolution in Research Affairs: Online Sources for the Study of the
PLA," in James C. Mulvenon and Andrew N.D. Yang, eds., Poverty
of Riches: New Challenges and Opportunities in PLA Research, (Santa Monica:
RAND Corp, 2003)
Media Appearances
- Quoted in an article titled "China Focuses on Territorial Issues as It Equates Tibet to U.S. Civil War South," New York Times, November 13, 2009.
- Quoted in an article titled "China on guard against outside influence," The Straits Times (Singapore publication), November 17, 2009.
- Quoted in an article titled "Why India Fears China," Newsweek, Oct 19, 2009.
- Featured in an interview in Rediff News, an Indian publication, October 13, 2009. The article is titled "China has settled all land border disputes except with India and Bhutan."
- Quoted in an article titled
"China and India Dispute Enclave on Edge of Tibet," New York Times, September 4, 2009.
- Quoted in an article titled "ANALYSIS-Booming China-India ties strained by border tension," Reuters, September 18, 2009.
- Quoted in an article titled "Rio Tinto Sales Executive Found Success in China's Changes," Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2009.
- Quoted in an article titled "China adds special riot squad to arsenal," Financial Times, July 19, 2009.
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Research cited in Zhang Quanyi, "Resolving China's Border Disputes," UPIAsia.com, January 8, 2009.
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Quoted in article titled "China Flash of Maritime Muscle May Mean Power Push in Asia Seas," Bloomberg.com, March 24, 2009.
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"A Talk with M. Taylor Fravel: An MIT scholar asks: What would make China use its army?" Interview in the Boston Globe, Sunday, August 10, 2008.
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Quoted in article titled "Bush Burnishes China Card for Obama, McCain," Bloomberg.com, August 4, 2008.
- May 9, 2008, NPR's "Morning Edition," "China's Underground Submarine Base Scrutinized"
- April 20, 2006, New England Cable News, "Good Morning Live," "President Bush meets with Chinese president"