VITA (Abbreviated)
January 2017
THOMAS JOHN BELLOWS
Professor of Political Science
Editor, American Journal of Chinese Studies
Department of Political Science
The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas 78249
Telephone: 210-458-4628
Fax: 210-458-4629
E-mail:
PERSONAL
Born- Chicago, Illinois
EDUCATION
Undergraduate: American University
U.C.L.A
Augustana College BA
Major - Political Science
Minor – History
Graduate: University of Florida M.A.
Major - Political Science
Minor- History
Yale University M.A. Ph.D.
Major - Political Science
Minor - Southeast Asian Studies
Doctoral language requirements:
French and Vietnamese
Dissertation - "The Singapore Party System: The First Two
Decades"
Tutored in Bahasa Melayu and Mandarin
ACADEMIC HONORS
Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Alpha Theta; Phi Kappa Phi; Who's Who in America, Each Annual Edition 1980 to Date; Who's Who in the World, 1965 to Date; President's Distinguished Achievement Award for Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio
FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION
Comparative Politics, Asian Politics. International Relations, National Security
RESEARCH OVERSEAS: 1964 to Date:
Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Residence in Singapore and Taiwan.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (Selective)
Editor, American Journal of Chinese Studies, 1999 to present.
Board of Directors, Phi Beta Kappa of San Antonio, 2001-2006.
Board of Directors (elected), American Association for Chinese Studies, 1980 -current.
President (elected, 2 terms), American Association for Chinese Studies 1999-
2000.
President (elected), Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, 1998.
External Examiner Department of Political Science, the National University of
Singapore, 1997 I 1998 and 199912000.
National Screening Committee, Competition for Awards for Graduate Study in
Southeast Asia, Fulbright Hays Act Grants. Member of Screening Committee two years, 1987 and 1988.
Board of Trustees (elected), World Affairs Council of San Antonio, 1987-89.
Secretary - Treasurer (elected), Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, 1983-86.
ADMINISTRATIVE AND/OR TEACHING POSITIONS HELD AT
University of Texas at San Antonio, 1981 - present
University of Arkansas, 1967- 81
National Chengchi University, Taiwan, 1997
Nanyang University of Singapore, 1965
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS, (Refereed)
Statecraft of Modern Texas: Perspectives on Politics and History. W.W. Norton &
Company, 2007. With Felix Almaraz.
The Republic of China's Legislative Yuan: a Study of International Evolution.
Baltimore: Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, School of Law, University of Maryland, 2003.
Taiwan and Mainland China: Democratization, Political Participation, and
Economic Development in the 1990's. New York: St. John's University, 2000. (Editor and Contributor).
Conflict and Compromise: An Introduction to Politics. New York: HarperCollins
Publishers, Inc., 1992, with Herbert R. Winter.
People and Politics: An Introduction to Political Science. 3rd ed; New York:
Macmillan Publishing Co., 1986, with Herbert R. Winter.
Political Science: Introductory Essays and Readings. Belmont, California:
Duxbury Press, 1971, with Stanley Erikson and Herbert Winter.
The People's Action Party of Singapore: Emergence of a Dominant Party System. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1970.
ARTICLES/CHAPTERS (65 including), refereed
"The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Taiwan: Possibilities and Difficulties" in Robert Henry Cox and Michael Gibbs Hills, Taiwan and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, American Journal of Chinese Studies, July 2015, Vol. 22, Special Issue I, 115-27.
"Confucianism and Pluralism in a Meritocratic Society: The Singapore Case" in John Fuh-sheng Hsieh (ed.), Confucian Culture and Democracy. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. 2015, 131-59.
"Singapore," The Oxford Companion to International Relations. New York: Oxford University Press, April 1913, 364-67.
"No Change in Sight: Party Politics and the Legislative Yuan during the Global Economic Crisis," Taiwan and the Global Economic Storm, Asia Program Special Report, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, October 2009, 20-27.
"Meritocracy and the Singapore Political System," Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol.17, No. 1 (April 2009), 24-44.
"The December 2006 Mayoral Elections in Taiwan: Taipei and Kaohsiung," American Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 14, No.2 (October 2007), 167-183.
"Economic Challenges and Political Innovation: The Case of Singapore," Asian Affairs: An American Review, Vol. 32, No.4 (Winter 2006), 231-55.
"The Anti-Secession Law: Framing and Political Change in Taiwan," Asian
Journal of Political Science, Vol. 1, Number 2 (December 2005), l 03-25.
"Globalization and Modernization: The Predicament of Sovereign Status for Taiwan" in Peter C.Y. Chow, Editor. Taiwan's Modernization in Global
Perspective, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2002, 217-35.
"Singapore" in Joel Krieger (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World. (2nd Ed.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, 765-67.
"Cross-Strait Policy and the Chen Shui-ban Administration," Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 9, Number 1 (June 2001) 66-80.
"Taiwan and Singapore: Political Development and Democratization," The American Asian Review. Vol. XVIII, No. 2. (Summer 2000), 119-39.
"Singapore's Central Provident Fund: Social Policy and Financial Security," Proceedings of the Asian-Pacific Regional Conference for the International Year of the Older Persons, Vol. 2 (Hong Kong: Social Welfare Department, 1999), 447- 482.
"Taiwan's Security and Foreign Affairs toward 2000 and Beyond," The American Asian Review, Vol. XVI, No. 1 (Spring 1998) 99-120.
"The March of 1996 Elections in the Republic of China on Taiwan," American Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 3, No.2 (December 1995), 235-49.
"Globalization and Regionalization in Singapore: A Public Policy Perspective," Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 3, No. 2 (December 1995) 45-65.
“The Foreign Policy of the Republic of China under Chiang Ching-kuo," The American Asian Review, Vol. XII, No.1 (Spring 1994), 95-119.
"Business and Politics in Mr. Goh's Singapore," Journal of Asian Business
(University of Michigan), Vol. 9, No. 2 (Spring 1993), 1-17. With J. Nonnan
Panner.
"The Gulf War: An American Policy Perspective," American Monthly (July
1991), published by the Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi
University, Republic of China. In Chinese.
"Singapore in 1988: Progress in Roots," Asian Survey, XXIX, No. 2 (February 1989), 145-53.
"The American Constitutional Convention from a Public Policy Perspective, International Review of History and Political Science, XXV, No. 4 (November 1988), 1-16.
"Bureaucracy and Development in Singapore," The Asian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 7, no. I (June 1985), 55-69.
"Singapore: Big Fish, Small Small Pond," The Wilson Quarterly, VII, No. 5 (Winter 1983), 66-82.
"Vietnam: Lessons Yet To Be Learned," Transaction/SOCIETY, Vol. 21, No.I (November/December 1983), 3-26. Reprinted in Current News, Department of Defense publication.
"Southeast Asia Today: Cultural Continuity and Political Instability," Air
University Review, The Professional Journal of the United States Air Force,
XXXI, No. 6 (September-October 1980), 83-92.
"Proxy War in Asia: Implementation of a New Communist Strategy," Asian Perspective, Vol. X, No. 2 (Fall 1979), 339-358.
"Normalization - A Taiwan Perspective," Asian Affairs: An American Review. Vol. 6, No.6 (July/August 1979), 339-358.
"Taiwan's Foreign Policy in the 1970s: A Case Study of Adaptation and
Viability," Asian Survey, VXI, No. 7 (July 1976), 593-610.
"The United States and Southeast Asia," World Affairs, Vol. 137, No. 2 (Fall 1974), 95-117.
"Research Climate in Malaysia and Singapore," Asian Studies Professional
Review, Vol. II, No. 2 (Spring 1972), pp. 125-131. Reprinted in U.S. Department
of State, Far Horizons, Vol. V, No.2 (Spring 1972), 7-9.
"The Singapore Party System," in Peng-Khuan Chong (ed.), Problems in Political Development: Singapore. Berkeley, California: McCutchan Publishing
Corporation, 1969.
SELECTIVE SPEECHES and PAPER PRESENTATIONS (135 including)
Invited Speaker, "Is the TRA Relevant Today", Sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliot School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, October 10-11, 2014.
Invited Speaker, "Taiwan and the Trans-Pacific Partnership:
Possibilities and Difficulties." Center for Asian Studies, Walker Institute for International and Area Studies, University of South Carolina, September 20-21, 2014.
Invited Speaker, "Taiwan/Peoples Republic of China, Relations in Asia,"
Shanghai-San Antonio Policy Institute Trinity University, San Antonio, August
20, 2014.
Invited Speaker, "Trans-Pacific Partnership and Taiwan: Possibilities and
Difficulties," 2014 Conference on Taiwan Affairs, Center for Asian Studies,
University of South Carolina, September 20, 2014.
Invited Speaker, "Taiwan and China: Tranquility or Turmoil?" at Shaping the 21st Century: Focus on East Asia, Louisiana Tech University, April 18, 2012.
Invited Speaker, "E CFA of Taiwan's Regionalism in Southeast Asia: Evolution and Opportunities," 19th Annual Studies Conference, Center for Asian Studies, University of South Carolina, October 21-23, 2011.
Invited Speaker, "Taiwan's Relations with Southeast Asia," Presented at Taiwan's Search for International Space: Domestic and Regional Dynamics Conference. The Sigur Center for Asian Studies, the Elliot School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. Washington, DC, November 22, 2010.
"Taiwan's 2008 Elections and the Aftermath". American Association for Chinese Studies 52"d Annual Conference. Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, October 15-17, 20I0.
Invited Speaker, “The Impact of Globalization and Recession and Party Politics in Taiwan." Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Asia Program and the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, March 18, 2009.
"Taiwan's 2008 Elections," 31st Annual Meeting, Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, October 3-4, 2008.
"The 2006 Mayoral Election in Taiwan," 491h Annual Conference, American Association for Chinese Studies, University of Richmond, October 5-7, 2007.
"Constitutional Change in the Republic of China (Taiwan)," 6'11 Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Science, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 30-June 2, 2007.
Invited Speaker by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Seminar on "Breaking the Ice or Muddying the Waters? New Dialogue across the
Taiwan Strait". Audio and video produced by Wilson Center, May 18, 2005.
Invited Speaker, "The Decision-Making Role of the Singapore Civil Service," delivered at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New York, March 1997.
"Public Policy Issues in Contemporary Singapore," Association for Asian Studies, April 6-9, 1995 Washington, D.C.
"Geo-economic Regionalism: the Growth Triangle as a Case Study,'' at the
Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group in affiliation with the Association for
Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 1994.
"The Foreign Policy of the Republic of China under Chiang Ching-kuo," 11 111 International Conference on Asia, St. John's University, April 1993.
Invited Speaker, “Business and Politics in Mr. Goh's Singapore," Third Biennial Southeast Asia Business Research Conference, University of Michigan, May 16-17, 1992.
“Change and Stress in Mainland China: The Dilemma of Higher Educations," Invited Speaker, Forum on Mainland China, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, January 24, 1989.
Invited Speaker, "The United States: Its Political, Economic and Military Place m the World Today,'' San Antonio Mensa Group, September 1983.
Invited Speaker, "The People's Republic of China: Stability and International Politics in the Pacific Basin" and "Administration in a Confucian State: Singapore as a Case Study," sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Center for Asian Studies, University of Northern Illinois, March 1982.
Invited Speaker, "Proxy War as a Tool of Communist Expansion," Social Science Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, June 1979.
Invited Speaker, “Recent Developments in the Security Situation of East Asia," delivered to Command and General Staff Officers, Armed Forces University, Taipei, Taiwan, April 1979.
Invited Prepared Commentary on "New Directions for Armed Forced Educators," at Fifth World-Wide Armed Forces Education Conference, University of Maryland, and December 1972. Commentary partially reproduced in University of Maryland Graduate School Chronicle, March 1973.
Coauthor, "Political Violence in Malaysia and Indonesia: A Comparative
Overview," delivered at the Southwestern Social Science Association annual
Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 1970.
GRANTS (14 including) Total Grants Awarded: $380,000
The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. Publication grant for the American Journal of Chinese Studies. October 2008. $3,900.00.
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, three year publication grant for American Journal of Chinese Studies, July 2003-June 2008. $65,550.00.
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, five-year research grant for the Legislative Yuan: Organization and Functions in a Democratic Polity, July 1997-June 2002. $34,900.
Book Reviews Published In:
The American Asian Review
The American Political Science Review
Asian
The Asian Journal of Political Science
The Asian Journal of Public Administration
Berita (Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei Studies Group)
The China News
Chinese Yearbook of International Law and Affairs
Education about Asia
Journal of Asian Studies
Journal of Asian and African Studies
Journal of Politics
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Pacific Affairs
Third World Quarterly
(Total of 50 Reviews)
Manuscripts Reviewed For:
American Enterprise Institute of Public Research; American Journal of Chinese
Studies; American Political Science Review; Asian Journal of Political Science; Asian Survey; Chastain Award Committee for Best Book on Southern Politics; Southern Political Science Association; Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; Allyn and Bacon; Cornell University Press; Greenwood Publishing Company; Harcourt Brace College Publishers; Houghton Mifflin Company; Comparative Politics; Education About Asia; Humboldt Journal of Social Relations; Institute of International Relations (Taiwan); Journal of Asian Studies; Journal of Thought; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; The Social Science Journal; Pacific Affairs; Southeast Asia Series;
Center for International Studies; Ohio University; University Press of Kansas; St.
Martin's Press; Mc-Graw Hill; Routledge Curzon.
FACULTY ADVISOR-UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO
Hong Kong Student Association, 1977-1981.
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, 1979-1981.
Pi Sigma Alpha 1985 to date.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Interim Director, Office of International Programs, 1991-1996.
Director, Division of Social and Policy Sciences, September 1982- August 1988.
Director, Division of Social Sciences, July 1981- August 1982.
University of Arkansas
Chairperson, Department of Political Science, July 1971-August 1978.
(Department grew from 8 to 18 faculty during this period.)
Acting Chairperson, Department of Political Science, March 1970- July 1971.
Director, Master of Public Administration Program, September 1970-November
1973.
Academic Director, Overseas Graduate Program in International Relations with
The United States Air Force, July 1971-December 1975.
President, University of Arkansas Foundation for the International Exchange of
Students, 1971-73.
Chairperson of Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Appeals, appointed by the
President, 1973-74.
Chairperson, Asian Studies Program, 1973-81.
Chairman of the Arkansas Political Science Association Curriculum Committee,
1974-76.
President, Arkansas Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 1974-75.
Updated January 2017