Dr. Paul Godwin
Former Professor
National War College, National Defense University

Dr. Paul H.B. Godwin recently retired as professor of international affairs at the National War College, Washington, D.C.  His teaching and research specialties focus on Chinese defense and security policies.  In the fall of 1987, he was a visiting professor at the Chinese National Defense University in Beijing.  Professor Godwin's most recent publications are: “Party-Military Relations,” in Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar (eds.), The Paradox of China’s Post-Mao Reforms (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999); “The PLA Faces the Twenty-First Century: Reflections on Technology, Doctrine, Strategy and Operations,” in James R. Lilley and David Shambaugh (eds.), China’s Military Faces the Future (Armonk, NY.: M.E. Sharpe,1999); and “China’s Nuclear Forces: An Assessment,” Current History, Vol. 98, No. 629 (September 1999).   He graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in International Relations, and received his doctorate in Political Science from the University of Minnesota.  Professor Godwin is currently a consultant and serves as a non-resident scholar in the Atlantic Council’s Asia-Pacific Program