China's Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: The Rise of the Fourth Generation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780765611161)

David M. Finkelstein is the Director of Project Asia, The CNA Corporation's center for Asian security studies. A long-time student of Chinese affairs, he received his Ph.D. in Chinese history from Princeton University and studied Mandarin at Nankai University in Tianjin. He is widely published on PRC and Asian security issues. A retired U.S. Army Officer, Finkelstein is a graduate of the United States Military Academy, held various China-related positions in the Pentagon, and served on the faculty of the History Department at West Point where he taught courses on the history of China and Chinese military history. Maryanne Kivlehan is an Asia Security Analyst at the CNA Corporation's Project Asia. A specialist in Chinese politics, foreign policy, and China's new generation of leaders, she also recently published an in-depth study of the political, legal, economic, environmental, and security dimensions of the South China Sea. She holds an MA in Security Policy Studies from the Elliott School of Foreign Affairs at the George Washington University, and is a graduate of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, as weIl Capital Normal University in Beijing, where she studied Mandarin. Before joining the CNA Corporation, she worked for an international nonprofit organization directing projects on Chinese, Mongolian, and Russian affairs. She also spent time in Bosnia working with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OS CE) in support of the 1997 municipal elections.