Alan M. Wachman

Alan Michael Wachman (

Wachman subsequently attended The Fletcher School. There he studied international relations as part of the Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy program, graduating in 1984. He continued his graduate studies in government at Harvard University, where he completed a Master of Arts in 1988 and a PhD in 1992. His doctoral dissertation was titled Converging quests: identity, nationalism, and democratization in Taiwan.[1]^[2][6][7]

From 1993 and until 1995 he became the American Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies in the PRC. From 1995 to 1997 he served in New York as the president of China Institute in America.^[1][8]

In 1997 he began to work at The Fletcher School as an assistant professor of international politics, later being promoted to associate professor and gaining tenure. Concurrently, he was involved in other positions. Between 2008 and 2009 he was a fellow in the East Asia Institute's Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia, as a guest lecturer at Peking University in Beijing, East Asia Institute in Seoul, and Keio University in Tokyo.^[1][5][6][8]

Wachman was also a member of the editorial boards of

After a year of battling pancreatic cancer, Alan Wachman died on June 21, 2012, at the age of 53.[8] The Professor Alan M. Wachman Memorial Fund, a scholarship endowed at The Fletcher School in his memory, supports "students engaging in international non-profit work and reflects Alan's fundamental belief in the importance of making the world a better place."^[8][10]

Personal life

Alan Wachman was the son of Barbara and Harold Y. Wachman of Lexington, Massachusetts. Harold Y. Wachman was a professor and a director of graduate studies in the department of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[5]

In 1997 Wachman married Laura Hess, a professor of Chinese at Brown University.^[5] They had two children.^[11]

Research

Wachman's scholarly work focused on the study of Taiwan, cross-strait relations, Chinese foreign relations and Sino-US relations. He researched links between diplomatic history and contemporary international security.

Wachman also focused on Mongolia's international relations. During his last years he was working on completing a book about Mongolia’s national security in the context of emerging rivalries among great powers in Asia.[15]^[20]

Publications

Books

• ISBN 978-0824814519
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• Wachman, Alan M. (1994). Taiwan: National Identity and Democratization. M.E. Sharpe.
  ISBN 978-1563243981
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• Graham, Lawrence; Farkas, Richard P.; Grady, Robert C.; Joffe, George; Studlar, Donley T.; Wachman, Alan M. (2006). The Politics of Governing: A Comparative Introduction. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
  ISBN 978-1933116662
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• Wachman, Alan M. (2007). Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China's Territorial Integrity.
  ISBN 978-0804755542
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• Wachman, Alan M. (1984). "Carter's constitutional conundrum: an examination of the president's unilateral termination of a treaty (Mutual Defense Treaty with Taiwan)".
  hdl:10427/76376
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• Tu, Weiming; Wachman, Alan M. (1990). "Workshop on Confucian Humanism". Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 43 (6): 10.
  JSTOR 3824177
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• Wachman, Alan M. (2000). "United States' Policy and Taiwan's Struggle to Sustain the Status Quo". Harvard Studies on Taiwan: Papers of the Taiwan Studies Workshop. 3.
• Wachman, Alan M. (2000). "Taiwan: Parent, Province, or Blackballed State?".
  doi:10.1163/156852100512112
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• Wachman, Alan M. (2001). "Does the Diplomacy of Shame Promote Human Rights in China?".
  S2CID 145512142
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• Wachman, Alan M. (2002). "Credibility and the U.S. Defense of Taiwan: Nullifying the Notion of a "Taiwan Threat"". Issues & Studies. 38 (1). Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
• Wachman, Alan M. (2002). "The China-Taiwan Relationship: A Cold War of Words".
  doi:10.1016/S0030-4387(02)00153-9
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• Wachman, Alan M. (2005). "American policy towards China'". Politique Américaine.
• Wachman, Alan M. (2009). "Don't forsake Mongolia, in Special Round Table, Advising the new President" (PDF). Asia Policy. 7 (1).
• Wachman, Alan M. (2009). "Thinking About a Healthy Military Balance in the Taiwan Strait". Asia Policy. 8 (1): 25–32.
  S2CID 155008963
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• Wachman, Alan M. (2005). "Stamped Out!: Carto-Philatelic Evidence of the PRC's Constructed Notion of China's Territorial Integrity". East Asia: An International Quarterly. 22 (31): 31–55.
  S2CID 153803533
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• Wachman, Alan M. (2007). "La politique chinoise des Etats-Unis ou l'Amérique face à elle-même (The United States' Chinese policy, or America faced with itself)". Monde chinois.
• Wachman, Alan M. (Winter 2008). "Ensnared by Beijing: Washington Succumbs to the PRC's Diplomacy of Panic". WSI China Security. 4 (1). Archived from the original on 2013-10-24.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• Wachman, Alan M. (2010). "Suffering What It Must? Mongolia and the Power of the 'Weak'". Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs. 54 (4): 583–602.
  doi:10.1016/j.orbis.2010.07.006
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