William A. Callahan

William Arthur Callahan
Academic background
Education	McGill University University of Hawaii
Thesis	Another Book of Laughter and Misunderstandings: A Field Guide to Chuckles, Smiles and Guffaws (1992)
Doctoral advisor	Michael J. Shapiro

William Arthur Callahan is a Canadian political scientist whose main research interests include China's global politics, visual international politics, documentary filmmaking, and international relations theory. Since 2013, he has been Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Callahan was Chair Professor of International Politics and China Studies at the University of Manchester (2005–2013), and co-director of the British Inter-University China Centre, University of Oxford. Callahan serves as on the editorial board of Journal of Contemporary China.

Career

Callahan has been a member of:

• American Political Science Association, 1990–present
• Association for Asian Studies, 1990–present
• British International Studies Association, 1996–present
• International Studies Association, 1997–present

Publications

Monographs

• Imagining Democracy: Reading "the Events of May" in Thailand (1998)
• Contingent States: Greater China and Transnational Relations (2004)
• Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia (2006)
• China: The Pessoptimist Nation (2012)
• China Dreams: 20 Views of the Future (2015)
• Pollwatching, Elections and Civil Society in Southeast Asia (2019)
• Sensible Politics: Visualizing International Relations (2020)

Edited books

• China Orders the World: Normative Soft Power and Foreign Policy, co-edited with Elena Barabantseva (2011)