Zhang Qingmin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Diplomacy, China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, where he has taught since 1994. His teaching and research interests include Chinese foreign policy, theories of foreign policy decision making, and U.S. policies toward the two sides of the Taiwan Straits. He is the author of US Arms Sales Policy toward Taiwan: A Decision-Making Perspective (2006), China’s Foreign Relations (2003), and more than thirty academic journal articles. He has also co-edited and contributed to many other books. He is on the editorial board of Foreign Policy Analysis, an academic journal of US International Studies Association (ISA). He got his MA from Brigham Young University and Ph.D. from China Foreign Affairs College; and he has been a Fulbright scholar at the Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University from 2004-2005.