Sarah C. M. Paine

About

Sarah C. M. Paine was a National Fellow for the 2013-14 academic year.

She is a professor of strategy and policy at the US Naval War College. Nine years of research and language study in Australia, China, Japan, Russia, and Taiwan form the basis for her publications Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 (Cambridge, 2012; long listed for the Gelber Prize; PROSE Award for European & World History), The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 (Cambridge, 2003), and Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier (M. E. Sharpe, 1996; Jelavich Prize). She has also written Nation Building, State Building, and Economic Development (edited, M.E. Sharpe, 2010); Modern China: Continuity and Change 1644 to the Present (coauthor, Prentice Hall, 2010); and three naval books: Naval Blockades and Seapower, Naval Coalition Warfare, and Naval Power and Expeditionary Warfare (coedited, Routledge, 2006-11). Her degrees include BA, Latin American studies, Harvard University; MIA, Columbia University School for International and Public Affairs; MA, Russian, Middlebury College; and PhD, history, Columbia University.