| Dr. Murray Scott Tanner Dr. Murray Scot Tanner joined the RAND Corporation as a Senior Political Scientist in September 2003. Before that, Dr. Tanner served for 13 years as Professor of Political Science at Western Michigan University. Dr. Tanner has written extensively on Chinese and politics, in particular on policing and internal security, political instability and unrest, the dilemmas of building the rule of law, human rights, lawmaking, leadership politics, and China-Taiwan relations. Among his recent writings on internal security and policing in China’s are “China Rethinks Unrest”, The Washington Quarterly, Summer 2004; “Shackling the Coercive State: China’s Ambivalent Struggle Against Torture”, Problems of Post-Communism, Sept./Oct. 2000; “Cracks in the Wall: China’s Eroding Coercive State”, Current History, Sept. 2002. He is also the author of The Politics of Lawmaking in Post-Mao China: Institutions, Processes, and Democratic Prospects (Oxford University Press, 1998), and a forthcoming monograph entitled “Chinese Efforts at Economic Coercion Against Taiwan” ( RAND, 2005). His articles have also appeared in such journals as Comparative Politics, The Washington Quarterly, The China Quarterly, The China Journal, and others. Dr. Tanner received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1991, and a B.A. in Political Science and East Asian Languages and Literature (Chinese) from the University of Michigan in 1982. He studied Chinese language at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Study (“ Stanford Center”) at the National Taiwan University in 1983-84. Dr. Tanner has also been a visiting scholar at Beijing University, the Chinese University of Politics and Law in Beijing, Harvard University, and Stanford University. In the late 1980s, Dr. Tanner also served briefly as an analyst of Chinese politics for the US Government. |