Prof. Shen Dingli, a physicist by training, is a professor of international relations at Fudan University. He is the founder and director of China's first non-government-based Program on Arms Control and Regional Security at Fudan University. Dr. Shen teaches at Fudan University graduate courses “Nonproliferation and International Security”,“Science/Technology and National Security”, as well as doctoral courses “International Security: Theory and Practice”, and “Regional Security”. He co-teaches undergraduate courses, “China and the World”, and “Contemporary America”, at Fudan University. He has taught China’s foreign policies at Colorado College since 2002.
His research areas cover China-U.S. security relationship, nuclear arms control and disarmament, nuclear weapons policy of the United States and China, regional nonproliferation issues concerning South Asia, Northeast Asia and Middle East, test ban, missile defense, export control, as well as China’s foreign and defense policies. He has co-edited “China’s Development Report”, “China and South Asian Relations in the 1990s”, “Conservatism and American Foreign Policy”, “Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy” and published over 500 articles and papers. In addition, he has published over 20 papers in physics in China and abroad.