James J. Shinn
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James J. Shinn is a former U.S. official. He has a long history in public service and foreign affairs. He appeared on C-Span in 2009 discussing the War in Afghanistan.[1]
Education
Shinn earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University, followed by his MBA at Harvard. He returned to complete his PhD at Princeton.[2]
Career
From 1976 until 1979, he worked for the Asia Bureau of the Department of State. From 1993 to 1996, Shinn was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2003 until 2006, Shinn was an East Asia national intelligence officer for the CIA and director of National Intelligence.[2]
He served in the position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs during U.S. President George W. Bush's presidency from December 19, 2007.[3] In his position, he helped oversee aid requests by Pakistan.[4]
He has been a visiting professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service teaching classes on technology and foreign policy and worked in the U.S. State Department's East Asia Bureau. He has also been a tech company executive and co-authored Political Power & Corporate Control.[5]
Further reading
- Works by James J. Shinn
- with Peter Gourevitch. "How Shareholder Reforms Can Pay Foreign Policy Dividends." Council on Foreign Relations (2002).
- with Jan M. Lodan. "Red-Teaming the Data Gap". Council on Foreign Relations (2002).
- with Peter Gourevitch. Political Power and Corporate Control: The New Global Politics of Corporate Governance. Princeton: Princeton University Press (2005).[6]
References
- ^ "James J. Shinn | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
- ^ a b Charles L. Pritchard; John H. Tilelli; Scott Snyder (2010). U.S. Policy Toward the Korean Peninsula. Council on Foreign Relations. pp. 72–. ISBN 978-0-87609-489-1.
- ^ "results.gov : Resources For The President's Team". georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov.
- ^ Spiegel, Peter; Miller, Greg (7 May 2008). "Pentagon puts brakes on funds to Pakistan". Newspapers.com. The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Political Power and Corporate Control". August 5, 2007 – via press.princeton.edu.
- ^ Morck, Randall. The International History Review, vol. 29, no. 1, 2007, pp. 223–225. JSTOR. Accessed 8 Jan. 2020.
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