Richard C. Bush

RICHARD C. BUSH III is a political scientist and foreign policy analyst who has published seven books on East Asia and U.S. foreign policy. His recent books include Difficult Choices: Taiwan’s Quest for Security and the Good Life, The Perils of Proximity: China-Japan Security Relations and Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait.

Bush holds a B.A. from Lawrence University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. He served in the U.S. executive and legislative branches for approximately nineteen years, including as Chairman and Managing Director of the American Institute in Taiwan from 1997 to 2002, and as National Intelligence Officer for East Asia on the National Intelligence Council.

Since 2002, Bush has been a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Center for East Asia Policy Studies and holds the Chen-fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies.

Richard C. Bush’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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