BICC Position

Co-Director, British Inter-university China Centre

Home Institution and position(s)

Chair Professor of International Politics, University of Manchester, 2005- present

Research Director, Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Manchester, 2005- present

Resident Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 2007/08

Contact information

Department of Politics, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL

Callahan@Manchester.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (161) 275 4771

Fax: +44 (161) 275 4925

Previous Employment

Senior Lecturer, Politics Department, University of Durham, 2000-05

Director, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Durham, 2003-05

Lecturer, Politics Department, University of Durham, 1996-2000

Acting Director, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Durham, July 2001-January 2002

Deputy Director, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Durham, 2000-2003

Director and Lecturer, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Programme, Rangsit University, Bangkok, Thailand, 1993-96

Research Fellow, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 1993-1996

Lecturer, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1991

Research and teaching interests

International relations and comparative politics: Chinese foreign policy, identity and security, Northeast Asian IR, EU-China relations, US-China relations, traditional and non-traditional security studies; Southeast Asian politics

Current Research Projects

Co-Director, British Inter-university China Centre (BICC), an international centre of excellence hosted at Oxford University that links the universities of Manchester, Bristol and Oxford for five years. The grant £5 million from Britain’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE) funds joint research projects, three international research conferences, 26 postgraduate studentships, and six postdoctoral fellowships. Professor Callahan is responsible for £1.2 million of the grant at Manchester.

Research project, Security, Identity and the Rise of China, a book-length research project on the relation of security and identity in foreign policy making that is funded by the British Academy, the European Commission and the Rockefeller Foundation. It has produced articles for International Organization, International Studies Quarterly the European Journal of International Relations, Alternatives, and Critical Asian Studies, and will be submitted to a university press in late 2008. Professor Callahan will write this book as a Resident Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC) in academic year 2007/08.

Key publications

‘Beyond Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Diasporic Chinese and Neo-nationalism in Thailand and China’, International Organization 57:3 (Summer 2003), pp. 481-517.

Contingent States: Greater China and Transnational Relations, University of Minnesota Press, 2004. xxxvi, 312 pages, ISBN 0816644004

Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia, London: Routledge, 2006. x, 244 pages, ISBN 0415369002.

‘How to Understand China: the Dangers and Opportunities of Being a Great Power’, Review of International Studies 31:4 (special section on ‘Forum on the Rise of China’ edited by Callahan) (2005), pp. 701-14.

‘Future Imperfect: The European Union’s Encounter with China (and the United States)’, Journal of Strategic Studies 30:4 (2007), 777-807.

For a full list of Professor Callahan’s publications, click here