Winter 2017-2018
VITA
Sheldon W. Simon
Professor, School of Politics & Global Studies
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona 85287-3902 U.S.A.
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Education:
B.A.University of Minnesota 1958
Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
M.A.Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton Univ., 1960
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Ph.D.University of Minnesota 1964
Dissertation completed under a grant from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
Professional Positions (in chronological order)
19611962Assistant Director, Center for International Relations, University of Minnesota
19651966Lecturer in International Politics, The George Washington University
19661975Assistant Professor through Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky
1967SummerResearch Associate, Institute for SinoSoviet Studies, the George Washington University
1968SummerVisiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii
19691971Consultant to the Research Analysis Corporation Washington, D.C.
19711972Acting Director, Patterson School of Diplomacy, University of Kentucky
19711976Political Science Advisor to the Oceanic Education Foundation, Washington, D.C.
19671971Member of SEADAG for the Asia Society and the U.S.
Agency for International Development
19721973Visiting Research Associate Professor, Institute of International Relations, University of British Columbia
1974SummerResearch Associate, Foreign Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
19751979Chairman, Department of Political Science, Arizona State University
1975Professor, Department of Political Science, Arizona State University
1976SummerVisiting Professor, Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University (Ottawa)
19761981Member of the Editorial Board, Asian Forum
1973SpringVisiting Lecturer throughout Asia for the U.S.
1979Summer Information Agency with additional research
1981Spring funding from the Earhart Foundation, Ann
1982-Summer Arbor, Michigan, and The National Bureau of
Asian Research, Seattle
1984Spring
1988-Spring
1988-Summer
1995-Fall
Spring-Summer 1998
19791980Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia
1980SummerResearch Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford
1985SummerUniversity
19801988Director, Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University
19801982Consultant, Frost & Sullivan, Political Risk Analysts, New York
1981SummerMember of the Seminar for the Study of National Intelligence, Bowdoin College, Maine
19821983Consultant, General Dynamics Corporation, Political Risk in Southeast Asia
1983Member of the Editorial Board, Asian Affairs
19831984Consultant, Center For International Business, Dallas
19851988Consultant, The Orkand Corporation, Silver Spring, Maryland, on Asian security matters
1986WinterProject Director, USIA Seminar on East Asian Securitya traveling seminar through U.S. bases in the Pacific for Asian Officials
1987- 1996Member of the Contemporary Affairs Council of The Asia Society, New York City
1988-1993Visiting Lecturer in Asian security to the Air Force Special Operations School (Florida)
1990- 2000"Asia" author for the Encyclopedia Americana Annual
1990-1994Member of the Editorial Board, Conflict
1991-Spring Gordon Paul Smith Endowed Chair in International Policy Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
1996-Spring Visiting Research Professor, Monterey Institute of International
Studies
1991-1993Vice President, International Studies Association
1991-1992 Visiting professor in International Studies, American Graduate
School of International Managemen
1992-1993Principal Investigator, The Southeast Asia Security Environment Project for the Department of Defence, through the National Bureau of Asian Research
1993-SummerMember U.S. Department of Defense Net Assessment Project--Asia
1993-1996Member, Fulbright Political Science Award Selection Committee
1994-Member, United States Council on Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific--Governing Board, 1997-2003
1995- Member of the editorial board of The Pacific Review
1996- Member of the Advisory Council to The National Bureau of Asian
Research (Seattle)
1994-1996Co-Principal Investigator, U.S. Institute of Peace Grant on “Democracy, Human Rights, and Market Access: Asian Reactions to U.S. Security Policy in the Asia-Pacific”
1995-1998Member of the Executive Committee of APSA International Security Studies Section
1997-Chairman, Southeast Asian Studies Advisory Board, The National Bureau of Asian Research (Seattle)
1998-Summer Member of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars Asia Working Group on the Economic Crisis and its Political
Implications
April 2000- Conference Organizer of “The Many Faces of Asian Security” funded by the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Goldwater Chair at Arizona State University
2000-2001 Principal Investigator, U.S. Institute of Peace and W. Alton Jones Foundation grants on “Evaluating Track II Security Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific”
2001-2003,2006
Smithsonian Institution guest lecturer on Asian international politics
aboard the world cruises of The Crystal Symphony and The Radisson Navigator in East Asia
2001-2003 Principal Investigator, Study of Theater Security Cooperation
In the Asia-Pacific for the U.S. Pacific Command
2003-Member of the editorial board of Asian Security
2004Member of the Johnson Foundation Analysis Group on U.S.-
Southeast Asian Relations
2004Co-Organizer of the NBR-IDSS-ASU Center for the Study of
2005Conflict and Religion Conference: “Religion and Conflict in
South and Southeast Asia: Disrupting Violence, October 2004.
2005-- Member of the editorial board of Asian Policy
2005 Co-Organizer of the NBR-IDSS Conference on “Contending
Perspectives on the Rise of China in Southeast Asia,”
Singapore, August 2005
2006-- Member of the Academic Associates of the U.S. National
Intelligence Council
2007-- Inducted into Alumni of Notable Achievement, College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Minnesota
2008-2009Visiting Asia-Pacific Mentorship Professor, U.S. Naval
War College, Newport, Rhode Island
September 2009 Visiting Lecturer on Asian Regionalism for the Taiwan
Ministry of Economics
2010-Member of the editorial board of International Studies Perspectives
April 2010 Visiting lecturer on Asian International Politics for the US Embassy
In Indonesia
2012 Project Director, U.S. National Intelligence Council:
“Conflict and Diplomacy in the South China Sea”
($30,000 grant)
2012 External Assessor, Asian International Politics,
University of Malaya
Books and Book Chapters
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"The New York City Hospitals Controversy," in R. Frost, Ed., Cases in State and Local Government (Englewood Cliffs: PrenticeHall, 1961).
The Broken Triangle: Peking, Djakarta and the PKI (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1969), 210 pages.
"Soviet Policy in South AsiaSome Projections," in Norton Dodge, ed., The Soviets in Asia (Machanicsville, Maryland: The Cremona Foundation, 1972).
"Cambodia in the Vortex: The Actors' Perceptions, Goals, and Settlement Prospects,:" in R.S. Milne and Mark Zacher, eds., Stability and Conflict in Southeast Asia (New York: Doubleday, Anchor, 1974), pp. 149180.
War and Politics in Cambodia: A Communications Analysis (Durham: Duke University Press, 1974), 178 pages.
"East Asia," in James Rosenau et al, eds., World Politics (New York: The Free Press, 1976), pp. 528551.
Asian Neutralism and U.S. Policy (Washington: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1975.) 111 pages
"The Khmer Resistance: External Relations," in Joseph Zasloff and MacAlister Brown, eds., Communism in Indochina: New Perspectives (Lexington, Mass., D.C. Heath, 1975), pp. 197214.
"China and Southeast Asia: Security in Transition," in Sheldon W. Simon, ed., The Military and Security in the Third World: Domestic and International Impacts (Boulder: The Westview Press, 1978), pp. 263286.
"Indochina's Security Situation" in Ibid., pp. 287314.
"The Presidency and Defense Policy: Questions for the Future," in Sam Sarkesian, ed., Defense Policy and the Presidency: Carter's First Years (Boulder: the Westview Press, 1979), pp. 319329.
"Southeast Asia in Soviet Perspective," in W. Raymond Duncan, ed., Soviet Policy in the Third World (New York: Pergamon Press, 1980), pp. 239261.
"U.S. Security Interests in Southeast Asia," in William T. Tow and William R. Feeney, eds., U.S. Foreign Policy and AsianPacific Security: A Transregional Approach (Boulder: The Westview Press, 1982), pp. 115134.
"Vietnam" in Edward Kolodziej and Robert Harkavy, eds., Security Policies of Developing Countries (Lexington: Mass: D.C. Heath, 1982), pp. 139156.
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"Soviet Policy Toward Southeast Asia," (with Donald Zagoria) in Zagoria, ed., Soviet Policy in East Asia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), pp. 153174.
"Towards a U.S. Security Policy in Southeast Asia: A Maritime Emphasis," in Ramon Myers, ed., Conflict or Peace: An American Foreign Policy for Asia The 1980s and Beyond (Stanford: The Hoover Institution Press, 1982), pp. 6073.
The ASEAN States and Regional Security (Stanford: The Hoover Institution Press, 1982). 161 pages
"Vietnam: Regional Dominance Arising From the Failure of Great Power Balances," in Raju Thomas, ed, The Great Power Triangle and Asian Security (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1983), pp. 8396.
"Explaining U.S. Security Interests in Southeast Asia," in T.B. Millar, ed., Security in Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific (University of Queensland Press, 1983).
"Southeast Asia in the Sino Soviet Tangle," in James Hsiung, ed., Beyond China's Independent Foreign Policy (New York: Praeger, 1985), pp. 8094.
"The Superpowers in Southeast Asia" in Donald Weatherbee, ed., Southeast Asia Divided: The ASEANIndochina Crisis (Boulder: The Westview Press, 1985), pp. 6580.
"Regional Threat Environments in Asia: Problems of Aggregation," in Edward Olsen and Stephen Jurika, Jr., eds., The Armed Forces in Contemporary Asian Societies (Boulder: The Westview Press, 1986), pp. 347366.
"Maritime Interests, Policy, and Future Prospects of the ASEAN States," in Russell Trood and William Dowdy, eds, The Indian Ocean: Perspectives on a Strategic Region (Durham: Duke University Press, 1986), pp. 377393.
(with Stephen Walker) "Role Sets and Foreign Policy Analysis in Southeast Asia," in Stephen Walker, ed., Role Theory and Foreign Policy Analyses (Durham: Duke University Press, 1987), pp. 141159.
The Future of Asian-Pacific Security Collaboration (Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, 1988), 200 pages.
"The U.S. Bases as an Issue in Regional Politics," in Ralph C. Hayburn, ed., New Zealand and the ASEAN Countries (Dunedin: University of Otago, 23rd Foreign Policy School, 1988), pp. 69-81.
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"The Soviet Union and Southeast Asia: The Vietnam Connection," in Roger Kanet and Edward Kolodziej, eds., The Soviet Union and the Developing World (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1989), pp. 149-170.
"Pacific Rim Reactions to U.S. Military Strategy," in Young Whan Kihl and Lawrence Grinter, eds., Security, Strategy, and Policy Responses in the Pacific Rim (Boulder: Lynn Reinner Publishers, 1989), pp. 81-101.
"Superpower Cooperation in Southeast Asia," Roger Kanet and Edward Kolodziej, eds., The Cold War as Cooperation: Regional Patterns and Prospects, (London: Macmillian, 1991), pp. 341-366.
"Security and Uncertainty in the Pacific," in Melvin Goodman, ed., The End of Superpower Conflict in the Third World (Boulder: The Westview Press, 1992), pp. 139-160.
"Security Structures in Asia," in Gary Guertner, ed., The Search for Strategy: Politics and Strategic Vision (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993), pp. 272-289.
Editor, East Asian Security in the Post-Cold War Era (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1993) 230 pages.
Coeditor (with Richard Ellings) Southeast Asian Security in the New Millenium .(Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996) 234 pages.
“The ASEAN Regional Forum,” in William M. Carpenter and David G. Wiencek eds., Asian Security Survey: An Assessment of the Political-Security Issues in the Asia-Pacific (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996). Pp.41-50.
Editor, The Many Faces of Asian Security (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield,
2001) 259 pages.
“Southeast Asia” in Richard Ellings and Aaron Friedberg, eds., Strategic Asia:Power
and Purpose, 2001-2002 (Seattle: The National Bureau of Asian Research, 2001). pp. 269-297.
“Southeast Asia” in Richard Ellings and Aaron Friedberg, eds., Strategic Asia,
2002-2003: Asian Aftershocks (Seattle: The National Bureau of Asian Research,
2002). Pp.309-350.
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“Southeast Asia: Whither Security Regionalism?” in Richard Ellings, Aaron Friedberg with Michael Wills, Strategic Asia: 2003-2004 (Seattle: The National Bureau of Asian Research, 2003). Pp.269-290.
“Southeast Asia: Back to the Future?” in Ashley Tellis and Michael Wills, eds.,
Strategic Asia 2004-2005: Confronting Terrorism in the Pursuit of Power (Seattle: The
National Bureau of Asian Research, 2004). Pp.261-300.
“Southeast Asia’s Defense Needs: Change or Continuity?” in Ashley Tellis and Michael
Wills, eds., Strategic Asia 2005-2006: Military Modernization in an Era of Uncertainty
(Seattle: The National Bureau of Asian Research, 2005). Pp.269-304
“Realism and Regionalism in Southeast Asia: The ARF and the War on Terror,” in
Joseph Liow and Ralf Emmers, eds., Order and Security in Southeast Asia: Essays in
Memory of Michael Leifer (London: Routledge: Curzon, 2006) pp.92-107
Co-editor with Linell Cady, Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia:
Disrupting Violence (New York: Routledge, 2007). 198 pages
“Whither Security Regionalism? ASEAN and the ARF in the Face of New Security
Challenges,” in Amitav Acharya and Evelyn Goh, eds., Reassessing Security
Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007). Pp.113-134.
Co-editor with Evelyn Goh, China, the United States, and Southeast Asia: Contending
Perspectives on Politics, Security, and Economics (New York: Routledge, 2008). 206
pages.
“ASEAN and the New Regional Multilateralism,” in David Shambaugh and Michael
Yahuda, eds., International Relations of Asia (New York: Rowman and Littlefield,
2008). Pp.195-214
“The ASEAN Regional Forum,” in Sumit Ganguly, Andrew Scobell, and Joseph
Chinyong Liou, eds., The Routledge Handbook on Asian Security Studies
(New York: 2010) pp. 300-310.
“Southeast Asian International Relations: Is There Institutional Traction?” in N.
Ganesan and Ramses Amer, eds., International Relations in Southeast Asia: Between
Bilateralism and Multilateralism, (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asia Studies Press,
2010). Pp.37-64. [Also published by Cornell University Press]
“Evaluating Track II Approaches to Security Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific Region:
The CSCAP Experience,” in Desmond Ball and Kwa Chong Guan, eds.,
Assessing Track 2 Security Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific Region: A CSCAP Reader
(Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asia Studies Press, 2010). Pp. 77-111.
“The United States, Japan, and Australia: Security Linkages to Southeast Asia,” in
Takashai Inoguchi, G. John Ikenberry, and Yoichiro Sato, eds., The U.S.-Japan
Security Alliance: Regional Multilateralism (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011)
pp.233-252.
“ASEAN and Southeast Asia: Remaining Relevant” in David Shambaugh and Michael
Yahuda, eds., International Relations of Asia (New York: Rowman and Littlefield,
2014) pp. 225-246.
Articles:
"The Asian States and the ILO: New Problems in International Consensus," The Journal of Conflict Resolution, March 1966 (Vol. X, No. l), pp. 2140.
"Some Domestic Policy Conflicts Behind 'The Great Cultural Revolution,'" Eastern World, SeptOct 1966 (Vol. XX, No. 9/10), pp. l0, 11, 17.
"New Soviet Approaches to the Japanese Left," Asian Survey June 1966 (Vol. 6, No. 6), pp. 319326.
"The Kashmir Dispute in SinoSoviet Perspective," Asian Survey March 1967 (Vol. VII, No. 3), pp. 176187.
"Maoism and Interparty Relations: Peking's Alienation of the Japanese Communist Party," The China Quarterly Sept Oct. 1968 (no. 35), pp. 4057.
"SinoJapanese Relations in China's Asian Policy," Current Scene, Nov. 1969 (Vol. VII, No. 22), pp l7.
"A Systems Approach to Security in the Indian Ocean Arc," Orbis, Summer 1970 (Vol. XIV, No. 2), pp. 401442.
"North Korean Foreign Policy: A Propaganda Analysis," Asian Forum, Summer 1970 (Vol. II, No. 3), pp. 201214.
"Some Aspects of China's Asian Policy in the Cultural Revolution and its Aftermath," Pacific Affairs, Spring 1971 (Vol. XLIV, No. l), pp. 1838.
"China and Japan: ApproachAvoidance Relations," Current Scene, Jan. 1972 (Vol. X, No. l), pp. l8.
"The Nixon Doctrine and Prospects for Asian Regional Security Cooperation," Asian Forum, March 1973 (Vol. V, No. l), pp. l16.
"China, The Soviet Union and the Subcontinental Balance," Asian Survey, July 1973 (Vol. XII, No. 7), pp. 647658.
"Ceasefire in Vietnam: A View From Hanoi," International Perspectives, May/June 1973, pp. 914.
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"The Japan, China, Soviet Triangle," Pacific Affairs (Vol. XLVII, No. 2), Summer 1974, pp. 125138.
"The Role of Outsiders in the Cambodian Conflict," Orbis, Spring 1975, (19, l), pp. 209230.
"Peking, and Indochina: The Perplexity of Victory," Asian Survey (16, 5), Aug 1976, pp. 401410.
"A Communist Indochina and Asian Security," International Perspectives, July/Aug 1975, pp. 37.
"Peking, Moscow and Japan: The Quest for Influence," Issues and Studies (Taipei) Aug 1976, (XII, 8), pp. l14.
"Obstacles to Security Cooperation Among the ASEAN States, Orbis (22,2), Summer 1978, pp. 415434.
"Japan's Foreign Policy: Adjustments to a Changing Environment," Asian Survey (18, 7), July 1978, pp. 666686.
"New Conflict in Indochina," Problems of Communism, SeptOct 1978, pp. 2036.
"Cambodia: Barbarism in a Small State Under Siege," Current History, Dec 1978, pp. 197201; 227228.
"China, Vietnam, and ASEAN; The Politics of Polarization," Asian Survey, Dec 1979, (18, 12), pp. 11711188.
"Kampuchea: Vietnam's `Vietnam'" Current History, Dec 1979, (77, 452), pp. 197198; 221223.
"Kampuchea: Pawn in a Political Chess Match," Current History, Dec 1980, pp. 170174, 194.
"The Soviet Union in Southeast Asia: Interests, Goals and Constraints," (25, l) Orbis, Spring 1981, pp. 5388.
"Military Force in Asia: A Review Article," Armed Forces and Society Nov 1981, pp. 149155.
"Cambodia and Regional Diplomacy," Southeast Asian Affairs, 1982 (Singapore: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies),pp. 196207.
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"Davids and Goliaths: Small Power Great Power Security Relations in Southeast Asia," Asian Survey, March 1983, pp. 302315.
"The Indochina Imbroglio: External Interests," Australian Outlook, August, 1983, pp. 8993.
"The Two Southeast Asias and China: Security Perspectives," Asian Survey, May, 1984, pp. 519533.
"China and Southeast Asia: Protector or Predator," Australian Outlook, August 1985, pp. 9398.
"The Great Powers and Southeast Asia: Cautious Minuet or Dangerous Tango?" Asian Survey, September 1985, pp. 918942.
"Soviet Policy Toward Southeast Asia: Projecting the Military," Indochina Issues, Feb.March 1986, pp. 1619.
"Is There a Japanese Regional Security Role?" Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, Summer 1986 (5, 2), pp. 3052.
"ASEAN's Strategic Situation in the 1980s," Pacific Affairs, Spring 1987 (60,1), pp. 73-93.
"ASEAN Security Prospects," Journal of International Affairs, Summer 1987 (41,1), pp. 17-37.
"Security Collaboration on the Pacific Rim," New Zealand International Review, Vol 13, No. 5, Sept/Oct 1988, pp. 11-18.
"ASEAN Security in the 1990s," Asian Survey, June 1989 (29,6), pp. 580-600.
"The Sino-Soviet Future: Some PRC Perspectives," Third World Quarterly, July 1989 (11,3), pp. 85-106.
"U.S. Security Policy and ASEAN: Detente's Implications," Current History, March 1990.
"An American Perspective on Tension Reduction and Northeast Asia Security," Asia-Pacific Review, Fall 1990. (2, 2), pp. 3-28.
"The United States and Conflict Reduction in Southeast Asia," Contemporary Southeast Asia, September, 1990. (12, 2) 82-100.
"Security and Uncertainty in the North Pacific," Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, January 1990, pp. 73-96.
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"China and Southeast Asia: Suspicion and Hope" The Journal of East Asian Affairs, (5, 1) Winter-Spring 1991, pp. 185-202.
"U.S. Interests and Future Military Presence in Southeast Asia," Asian Survey, July 1991, (31, 7), pp. 662-675.
"The Regionalization of Defense in Southeast Asia," The Pacific Review, Spring 1992 (5, 1), pp. 112-124.
"U.S. Strategy and Southeast Asian Security," Contemporary Southeast Asia (14, 4) March 1993, pp. 301-313.
(with Donald Emmerson) "Regional Issues in Southeast Asian Security: Scenarios and Regimes," NBR Analysis (4, 2) July 1993, pp. 1-36.
"Vietnam's Security: Between China and ASEAN," Asian Affairs, (20,4) Fall, 1993.
1087-204.
"The Clinton Administration and Asian Security: Towards Multilateralism," The Australian Journal of International Affairs, October 1993.