JHU SAIS Professor David M. Lampton Publishes New Book on China's Power Press Releases

David M. Lampton, the George and Sadie Hyman Professor, director of the China Studies Program and dean of faculty at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), has recently published The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds. University of California Press released the book in April.

Lampton's unique assessment takes the measure of what is arguably the most important geopolitical change in today's world: the growth of China's power.

In the only book on the subject to be based on extensive interviews with elite political leaders, diplomats, and others in China, the United States, and countries on China's periphery, Lampton investigates the military, economic and intellectual dimensions of China's growing influence. His account provides a fresh perspective from which to assess China-how its strengths are changing, where vulnerabilities and uncertainties lie, and how the rest of the world-not least the United States-should view it.

The Three Faces of Chinese Power gives a valuable historical framework by discussing how the Chinese have thought about state power for more than 2,500 years, and Lampton asks how they are thinking about the future use of power through instruments such as their space program. He also provides broad suggestions for policy toward China in light of the 2008 elections in the United States and China's hosting of the Olympic Games this summer, in a book that is essential reading for understanding one of the most significant developments of the 21st century.

Lampton is author of Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000 and editor of The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Age of Reform, among many other books and articles on Chinese domestic and foreign affairs.

SAIS is one of the country's leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international relations. Located along Embassy Row in Washington's Dupont Circle area, the school enrolls more than 550 full-time graduate students and mid-career professionals and has trained more than 15,000 alumni in all aspects of international affairs.