Sarah C. Paine (in publications, S. C. M. Paine) is a professor of strategy and policy at the

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. She has written and co-edited several books on naval policy and related affairs, and subjects of interest to the

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or Defense. Other works she has authored concern the

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and military history of

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, particularly China, during the modern era.

Personal life

Paine spent ten years acquiring her PhD in Russian and Chinese history at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, which included five years of research and language study in China, Taiwan, Russia, Japan, and Australia. She has received two Title VIII

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ships from the

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, two Fulbright fellowships, and other fellowships from Japan, Taiwan, and Australia. She is married to Bruce A. Elleman, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College. She has two brothers – John B. Paine III, and Thomas M. Paine.

Academic background

She holds the following degrees: * Ph.D. Russian and Chinese history,

. *M.I.A. Columbia University School for International and Public Affairs with certificates from both the Russian and East Asian institutes. *M.A. Russian Language, Middlebury College Russian School. *B.A. Special concentration in Latin American Studies,

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. Year-long language programs completed at: * Stanford Center, Taipei, Taiwan. * Taipei Language Institute, Taipei, Taiwan. *

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, Tokyo, Japan.

Selected publications

Author

* Japan caught between maritime and continental imperialism, in Hal Brands, ''The Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age'' (Princeton University Press, 2023, pages 415-439). *'' The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War'' (Cambridge University Press, 2017). *'' The Wars for Asia 1911–1949'' (Cambridge University Press, 2012). 2012 Winner of the PROSE award for European & World History and longlisted for the Lionel Gelber prize. *'' The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895: Perceptions, Power, and Primacy'' (Cambridge University Press, 2003). *''Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier, 1858–1924'' (M.E. Sharpe, 1996). Winner of the 1997

Barbara Jelavich Barbara Jelavich (April 12, 1923 – January 14, 1995) was an American professor of history at Indiana University and an expert on the diplomatic histories of the Russian and Habsburg monarchies, the diplomacy of the Ottoman Empire, and the histo ...

Book Prize. Co-author with Bruce A. Elleman: *''Modern China: Continuity and Change, 1644 to the Present'' (Prentice Hall, 2010).

Editor

*''Nation Building, State Building and Economic Development: Case Studies and Comparisons'' (M.E. Sharpe, 2010). Co-editor with Bruce A. Elleman: *''Naval Power and Expeditionary Warfare: Peripheral Campaigns and New Theatres of Naval Warfare'' (Routledge, 2011). *''Naval Coalition Warfare: From the Napoleonic War to Operation Iraqi Freedom'' (Routledge, 2008). *''Naval Blockades and Seapower: Strategies and Counter-Strategies 1805–2005'' (Routledge, 2005).

Notes

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