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Brantly Womack
Ph.D., China, Asian Politics, Asian International Relations, Vietnam

Brantly is currently Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is a member of London's International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) and is president of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. After receiving his BA Magna cum Laude from the University of Dallas in Politics and Philosophy in 1969, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Munich in philosophy. He received his MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago and pursued postdoctoral research in Chinese studies at University of California, Berkeley. Dr Womack has numerous books and monographs to his credit, including Contemporary Chinese Politics in Historical Perspective (Cambridge 1991), Politics in China with James Townsend (third edition, Little Brown, 1986), and Foundations of Mao Zedong's Political Thought (Hawaii University Press, 1982) as well as more than 40 scholarly articles and book chapters. His research has taken him many times to China and to Vietnam.

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