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Brantly Womack

Fast Facts

  • Retired C.K. Yen Chair at the Miller Center
  • Expert on China
  • Received China Friendship Award for his work with Chinese universities

 

Areas Of Expertise

  • Foreign Affairs
  • Asia
  • Economic Issues
  • Trade

Brantly Womack is a faculty senior fellow at the Miller Center and professor emeritus of foreign affairs at the University of Virginia. He received his BA degree in politics and philosophy from the University of Dallas, and after a Fulbright in philosophy at the University of Munich, earned his PhD in political science from the University of Chicago. 

Womack is the author of Recentering Pacific Asia (Cambridge University Press 2023), Asymmetry and International Relationships (Cambridge University Press 2016), China Among Unequals: Asymmetric International Relationships in Asia (World Scientific Press 2010), and China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry (Cambridge University Press 2006), as well as more than 100 articles and book chapters.

His co-edited book, Rethinking the Triangle: Washington-Beijing-Taipei (World Scientific Press 2016), was the product of a series of five international conferences that began at the Miller Center. He edited China’s Rise in Historical Perspective (Rowman and Littlefield 2010), the product of a lecture series at the Miller Center, and Contemporary Chinese Politics in Historical Perspective (Cambridge 1991). In 2011, Womack received the China Friendship Award for his work with Chinese universities. He holds honorary positions at Jilin University, East China Normal University, and Zhongshan (Sun Yat-Sen) University. 

Brantly Womack News Feed

"Nguyen Phu Trong is widely respected for his personal character and integrity," Brantly Womack, a senior fellow at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, told The Paper. "But he must deal with the tension between the effective leadership of the (Communist Party of Vietnam) Central Committee and the centripetal tendency of reform and opening up. The anti-corruption campaign 'melting pot' since 2017 is his most important political move."
Brantly Womack The Paper
A post-Biden candidate should bring something more to the table than non-Trumpness.
Brantly Womack The Hill
In his new book, “Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order,” the Miller Center’s Brantly Womack argues that U.S. efforts to build “team anti-China” coalitions in the Indo-Pacific could backfire among countries that benefit from lucrative trade relations with Beijing.
Brantly Womack Politico Europe
Putin’s victory in Ukraine would not be so easy.
Brantly Womack The Hill
The new concepts of the Indo-Pacific and Pacific Asia (which includes Northeast Asia, Greater China, and Southeast Asia) are each problematic, but with differing complications.
Brantly Womack China-US Focus
Brantly Womack, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Virginia and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Miller Center, discusses his new book, "Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and the World Order," at Emory University.
Brantly Womack U.S.-China Perception Monitor