Speaker biographies

Dan Blumenthal joined AEI in November 2004 as a resident fellow in Asian studies. Previously, he was senior director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for international security affairs during the first George W. Bush administration. In that capacity, he led a team that formulated and implemented defense policies and programs toward, and for, these portfolio countries. Before his service at the Department of Defense, Mr. Blumenthal practiced law in New York and was a research assistant at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Mr. Blumenthal was appointed by Senator Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) as a commissioner on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in February 2006.

Andrew Erickson is a research fellow in the Strategic Research Department of the U.S. Naval War College. His publications include “A Geotechnological Balancer: The Emerging China-EU Space Partnership,” coauthored with Joan Johnson-Freese in Space Policy: An International Journal 22 (Spring 2006): 12–22; “Anchoring America’s Asian Assets: Why Washington Must Strengthen Guam,” coauthored with Justin Mikolay, Comparative Strategy 24, no. 2 (April–June 2005): 153–71; “China’s Ballistic Missile Defense Countermeasures: Breaching America’s Great Wall in Space?” chapter 4 in Lyle J. Goldstein and Andrew Erickson, China’s Nuclear Modernization, U.S. Naval War College Newport Paper no. 22, April 5, 2005, 65–91.

Lyle Goldstein is associate professor of strategic studies in the Strategic Research Department of the U.S. Naval War College. Mr. Goldstein speaks Chinese and Russian and has expertise on the Chinese military, Russia, and the former Soviet states. His first book is Preventive Attack and Weapons of Mass Destruction (Stanford University Press, 2005), which relies heavily on Russian and Chinese nuclear history to study proliferation crises. Mr. Goldstein’s publications also include “China, Japan and the Scramble for Siberia,” IISS Survival 48, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 163–78; “Gate Crashing: China’s Submarine Force Tests New Waters,” coauthored with Andrew Erickson and William Murray, Chinese Military Update 2, no. 7 (April 2005): 1–4; and “Undersea Dragons: China's Maturing Submarine Force,” International Security (Spring 2004):161–96.

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