Dr. James Nolt has been campus dean at NYIT-Nanjing since its opening in 2007. He previously taught Asian Studies at Seton Hall University and political science at the New School for Social Research at Vanderbilt University. He researches international political economies and issues of global security, with a focus on United States-East Asia relations. He is writing a book under contract with Routledge Press entitled International Political Economy: The Business of War and Peace. He has published articles on the Chinese military, the China-Taiwan military balance, U.S.-China relations, China’s political economy, northeast Asian security, the politics of economics development, and international relations theory.

Nolt earned his Ph.D. in political science, with a focus on international relations, from the University of Chicago. He was a dissertation fellow at the Center for International Relations at Harvard University and did graduate study at Stanford University. He earned a master’s degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, completed courses for a master’s degree in computer science from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and worked for six years as a software engineer. Nolt has been interviewed by numerous newspapers and broadcast media outlets, including CNN World News Asia, CBS News, CBC, NBC, and cable news programs.

 
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