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Phone: 617-324-0222 Curriculum Vitae (PDF) |
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, will be 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.
"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.