Prof. Sarah C. M. Paine
Contact Sarah Paine Senior Fellow sally.paine@emeritus.usnwc.edu tel: +39 051 2917811 Campus Location: SAIS Europe
About Sarah C. M. Paine is William S. Sims University Professor of History and Grand Strategy in the Strategy & Policy Department of the U.S. Naval War College. Her research has taken her across Australia, China, Japan, Russia, and Taiwan over nine years.
Publications
- The Japanese Empire (Cambridge, 2017)
- Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 (Cambridge, 2012; Gelber prize longlist; Leopold Prize and PROSE award for European & World History)
- The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 (Cambridge, 2003)
- Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier (M. E. Sharpe, 1996; Jelavich prize)
- Nation Building, State Building, and Economic Development (edited, M.E. Sharpe, 2010)
- Modern China: Continuity and Change 1644 to the Present, 2nd ed. (co-author with Bruce A. Elleman, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
- Five naval volumes (all co-edited with Bruce A. Elleman, Routledge, 2006–11; Naval War College Press, 2014–15):
- Naval Blockades and Seapower: Strategies and Counter-Strategies 1805–2005
- Naval Coalition Warfare: From the Napoleonic War to Operation Iraqi Freedom
- Naval Power and Expeditionary Warfare: Peripheral Campaigns and New Theaters of Naval Warfare
- Commerce Raiding: Historical Case Studies, 1755–2009
- Navies and Soft Power: Historical Case Studies of Naval Power and the Nonuse of Military Force
- From Quills to Tweets: How America Communicates about War and Revolution (co-edited with Andrea J. Dew and Marc A. Genest, Georgetown University Press, 2019)
Education
- B.A. Latin American Studies, Harvard University
- M.I.A. Columbia University School for International and Public Affairs (certificates from the East Asian and Russian Institutes)
- M.A. Russian, Middlebury College
- Ph.D. history, Columbia University