Michael D. Swaine

• Assessing the threat
• America's challenge
• China
• Interpreting China's Grand Strategy
• Managing Sino-American crises
• Taiwan's foreign and defense policies
• Taiwan's National Security Defense Policy and Weapons Procurement Process (Review of the Scientific Literature as It Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses)
• Taiwans National Security, Defense Policy and Weapons Procurement Processes
• The military & political succession in China
• The role of the Chinese military in national security policymaking
• Conflict and cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region
• Heavy industrial policy under Hua Guofeng