Dr. Jean Garrison

Dr. Garrison’s research interests focus on American foreign policy with an emphasis on U.S.-China relations, energy security, presidential foreign policy advisory systems, bureaucratic politics, and group decision-making dynamics. She is the author of China and the Energy Equation in Asia: Determinants of Policy Choice (Boulder, CO: First Forum Press-a division of Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009), Making China Policy: Nixon to G.W. Bush (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005) and Games Advisors Play: Foreign Policy in the Nixon and Carter Administrations (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1999), and numerous articles in journals such as Asia Policy, Asian Affairs: An American Review, Asian Perspective, International Studies Review, Foreign Policy Analysis, and Political Psychology.

During 2004, Dr. Garrison received a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship and served in the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs with the U.S. State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. In 2007-08 she spent a sabbatical leave, in part, as a visiting fellow at the Mansfield Foundation in Washington, D.C. doing research on China’s quest for energy security in Asia. Her future work will focus more specifically on climate change as an energy security issue.

Dr. Garrison teaches courses in American foreign relations, international relations, and comparative foreign policy. She is the Director of the International Studies Program. Prior to UW, Dr. Garrison n taught for four years at Boston University (1996-2000). She received her Ph.D. and MA in Political Science from the Department of Government and International Studies at the University of South Carolina and graduated with a bachelor’s in political science from the University of Wyoming.