Faculty & Staff
John Garver
Professor
Asian Outreach Director
John W. Garver is Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, and the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, and a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations.
He is the author of seven books and over sixty articles dealing with China relations. His books include: The Protracted Contest, China-Indian Rivalry in the Twentieth Century and Face Off: China, the United States, and Taiwan Democratization (2001 and 1997, both by the University of Washington Press); The Sino-American Alliance: Nationalist China and the US Cold War Strategy in Asia (ME Sharpe, 1997); The Foreign Relations of the People Republic of China (Prentice Hall, 1993; this is one of the most widely used textbooks on PRC foreign relations); Chinese-Soviet Relations, 1937-1945 , The Diplomacy of Chinese Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 1988); and China Decision for Rapprochement with the United States (Westview, 1982).
Dr. Garver has received grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the US National Academy of Science, the US Department of Education, the Chiang-Ching-kuo Foundation, and the US Institute for Pakistan Studies. He has lived in various parts of China for over six years, has traveled widely throughout Asia, has conducted formal research in a number of Asian countries, is fluent in Chinese and is teaching that language to his two children. He served in the US Army from 1969-71. He also speaks German. He is married to Dr. Penelope Prime, professor of economics at Kennesaw State University and Director of the China Research Center.