Bates Gill (, ) is an expert on Chinese foreign policy and politics and a former Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
Gill has a long record of research and publication on both international and regional security issues. These include arms control, non-proliferation, peacekeeping and military-technical development—and all mainly with regard to China and the Asia-Pacific region. His work has also encompassed other contemporary security-related issues including multilateral security organizations, the impact of domestic politics and development on the foreign policies of states, and the nexus of public health and security. Currently, his work focuses on Chinese foreign and security policy, the role of the Chinese Communist Party in the deliberation and implementation of Chinese foreign and security policy, and China's engagement of the Global South.
Education
Gill received his Ph.D in foreign affairs from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville in 1991. His thesis investigated the relationship between Chinese arms transfers and the country's foreign policy, and was entitled "Fire of the Dragon: Arms Transfers in Chinese Security Policy". He received his B.A from Albion College, Michigan with a double major in political science and French. He speaks, reads and writes Chinese, English, and French.
Professional life
He is currently Executive Director of the Center for China Analysis with the Asia Society Policy Institute and a Senior Associate Fellow with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London. Before his current role, he was Professor and Chair, Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University. He was previously the chief executive officer of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney (2012–2015). Prior to this, he was Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)(2007-2012). Before being named SIPRI Director in 2007, Gill held the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. from 2002. He served as a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and inaugural Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., from 1998 to 2002.
He also held the Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China (1992-93) and the Sir Howard Kippenberger Chair in Strategic Studies at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand (2016). In 2013, he received the Royal Order of the Commander of the Polar Star, the highest award bestowed upon foreigners by the Swedish monarch, for his services to Sweden.
Selected works
Books
Gill is author, co-author or editor of ten books: Daring to Struggle: China's Global Ambitions under Xi Jinping (Oxford University Press, 2022) China Matters: Getting it Right for Australia (Black Inc./La Trobe University Press, 2017), co-authored with Linda Jakobson Governing the Bomb: Civilian Control and Democratic Accountability of Nuclear Weapons (Oxford University Press, 2010), co-edited with Hans Born and Heiner Hänggi Asia's New Multilateralism: Cooperation, Competition, and the Search for Community (Columbia University Press, 2009), co-edited with Michael J. Green Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy (Brookings Institution Press, 2007, revised edition in 2010, published in Japanese in 2014) China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know Now about the Emerging Superpower (PublicAffairs, 2006), co-authored with C. Fred Bergsten, Nicholas Lardy, and Derek Mitchell Weathering the Storm: Taiwan, Its Neighbors and the Asian Financial Crisis (Brookings Institution Press, 2000), co-edited with Peter Chow China’s Arms Acquisitions from Abroad: A Quest for ‘Superb and Secret Weapons’ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), co-authored with Taeho Kim Arms, Transparency and Security in Southeast Asia (Oxford University Press, 1997), co-edited with J. N. Mak Chinese Arms Transfers (Praeger Publishers, 1992)
He was also the publisher of the SIPRI Yearbook during his tenure as SIPRI Director.
References
External links
Bates Gill - Asia Society Policy Institute
SIPRI Biography: Dr Bates Gill
Bates Gill | Foreign Affairs (Author Profile) China's Space Odyssey: What the Antisatellite Test Reveals About Decision-Making in Beijing - Foreign Affairs, May/June 2007 China's HIV Crisis - Foreign Affairs, March/April 2002 Limited Engagement - Foreign Affairs, July/August 1999
