David Denoon, professor of politics and economics at New York University, has just published two books on China and Asian economic and strategic developments. Denoon, a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration, authored The Economic and Strategic Rise of China and India: Asian Realignments after the 1997 Financial Crisis (Palgrave-Macmillan) and edited China: Contemporary Political, Economic, and International Affairs (NYU Press).
David Denoon, professor of politics and economics at New York University, has just published two books on China and Asian economic and strategic developments. Denoon, a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration, authored The Economic and Strategic Rise of China and India: Asian Realignments after the 1997 Financial Crisis (Palgrave-Macmillan) and edited China: Contemporary Political, Economic, and International Affairs (NYU Press).
“Denoon is a unique Asia specialist in his ability to assess the economic as well as political trends that are transforming the Asia-Pacific region,” said U.S. Institute of Peace President Richard Solomon, who served as U.S. ambassador to the Philippines and as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
“This is both a sweeping and detailed study which contributes significantly to our understanding of the economic and strategic developments in Asia after the financial crisis of 1997,” added Hugh Patrick, director of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC Study Center at Columbia University, in describing The Economic and Strategic Rise of China and India.
In The Economic and Strategic Rise of China and India, Denoon demonstrates the U.S. preoccupation with counter-terrorism after 9/11 has meant that Washington sought close cooperation with both New Delhi and Beijing. Although the U.S. is preeminent in Asia at the moment, the continental powers, China and India, are laying the basis for their emerging role. The Pacific Rim countries, which received substantial attention as the “Asian Dragons” in the 1970s and 1980s, are losing prominence and must soon decide with which of the future giants they want to align.
In the edited volume on China, Denoon has assembled some of the country’s leading China specialists who provide a look at China’s dramatic transformation in the past 15 years. Both Denoon and the other authors provide an explanation of why China has achieved extraordinary change in its economic and foreign policies while maintaining a rigid and stagnant domestic political system.
Reporters wishing to speak with Denoon should contact James Devitt, NYU’s Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu.
BIO
David Denoon has a B.A. from Harvard, an M.P.A. from Princeton, and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. He has served in the federal government in three positions: program economist for USAID in the Department of State in Jakarta, Indonesia, vice president of the U.S Export-Import Bank, and as deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan Administration. He is the author and editor of seven books and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London). Further information is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.