Steve?Chan

  • Professor

STEVE CHAN?陈思德is College Professor of Distinction Emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was Director of Farrand Residential Academic Program, Chair of the Political Science Department, and Director of the International Affairs Program at that institution.? He received the Karl W. Deutsch award of the International Studies Association, Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Excellence in Research, and CU Parents Association's Marinus Smith Award for excellence in teaching.?He can be contacted at?steve.chan@colorado.edu and?720-382-8898.

Chan has published thirty books and over two hundred chapters and articles in journals such as the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, International Affairs, International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Security Studies, and World Politics.

He is a co-editor, along with Kai He and Rumi Aoyama, for the Cambridge University Press’s Elements Series on Indo-Pacific Security.

Steve Chan and William R. Thompson, eds., Domestic Politics and the Management of Great Power Relations: Second Image Revisited, in preparation, under contract with Routledge

Steve Chan and Weixing Hu, The Future of Pacific Asia: The Search for a New Grand Bargain?(Routledge, forthcoming 2026)

Steve Chan, ed., Gauging China’s Influence Abroad: Theory and Practice?(Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2026)

Steve Chan, Punctuated Equilibria and Sino-American Relations: Lulls and Lurches across the Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Steve Chan, Fuses, Chains, and Backlashes: China, the United States, and the Dynamics of Conflict Contagion and Escalation (Oxford University Press, 2025)

Steve Chan, Mobilizing the Past: The Lessons of History and the Danger of War between China and the United States (Stanford University Press, 2025)

Steve Chan, Taiwan and the Danger of Sino-American War (Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Steve Chan and Weixing Hu, Geography and International Conflict: Ukraine, Taiwan, Indo-Pacific, and Sino-American Relations (Routledge, 2024)

Steve Chan, Culture, Economic Growth, and Interstate Power Shift (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

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Steve Chan, Huiyun Feng, Kai He, and Weixing Hu. Contesting Revisionism: China, the United States, and the Transformation of International Order (Oxford University Press, 2021)

Steve Chan, Thucydides’s Trap? Historical Interpretation, Logic of Inquiry, and the Future of Sino-American Relations (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020)