Dr. Yinhong Shi is Distinguished Professor of International Relations, Chairman of the Academic Committee of the School for International Studies, and Director of the Center on American Studies at Renmin University of China in Beijing. He has served as a Counselor to the State Council of the People’s Republic of China since February 2011 and as a senior adviser to the Pangoal Institution, one of the most prominent think tanks in China. His previous positions include Professor of International History at Nanjing University and Professor of International Relations at the International Relations Academy, Nanjing. He also served as President of the American Historical Research Association of China from 1996 to 2002. He taught graduate courses as Visiting Professor of Public Policy three times at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and as Visiting Professor of Modern China Studies at Aichi University in Nagoya. He received a Ph.D. in international history from Nanjing University in 1988. He mainly engages in history and ideas of global politics, strategic studies, East Asia security, and foreign policies of both China and the United States. He has published eighteen books, more than 600 professional articles and essays, as well as nineteen translated books mainly on strategic history and international politics, many of which have domestic and global influences.