Associate Professor
School of International Relations
USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
213-740-0773
dlynch@usc.edu
Video: Dan Lynch comments on the international impact of the Beijing Olympics (2009 conference)
Professor Lynch is currently researching how Chinese political and intellectual elites expect China will, or should, change in the years leading up to about 2030. He is focusing on five interrelated issue-areas: domestic political processes and institutions; comprehensive national power and its implications for the country's role(s) in world politics; Party-state defense of cultural integrity and national identity under conditions of deepening globalization; development and diffusion of potentially transformative new technologies; and prospects for achieving sustainable development. Lynch's goal is to understand how Chinese people patched into policymaking networks are conceiving their own society's future; he is not trying to develop "objective" predictions or forecasts of his own. But he is interested in assessing how the Chinese expectations differ from dominant expectations implicit in Western social science models, and what these differences may mean for China's actual course of development. In addition to this large-scale project, Lynch--in his spare time (!)--continues to monitor the domestic politics of Taiwan and Thailand, and in particular the problems these societies face in deepening democracy, consolidating autonomy, and achieving social justice. Unavoidably and increasingly, Taiwanese and Thai people must face their domestic challenges within the context of China's rise. How these outside "others" experience Chinese change can be just as illuminating as how Chinese people themselves interpret their country's developmental trajectory.
Education:
Ph.D. (Political Science), University of Michigan, 1996
M.A. (International Affairs/East Asian Studies), George Washington University, 1989
B.A. (Political Science/Communication), University of Kentucky, 1985
Selected Publications:
Lynch, Daniel (2009). "The Next Chinese Revolution," Far Eastern Economic Review, Oct. 1, 2009.
Lynch, Daniel, “Chinese Thinking on the Future of International Relations: Realism as the Ti, Rationalism as the Yong?” The China Quarterly, No. 197 (March 2009), pp. 1-21.
Lynch, D. C. (2008). "Why Mr. Samak Must Go," Far Eastern Economic Review.
Lynch, D. C. (2008). "Will the Olympics Change China?,"Far Eastern Economic Review.
Lynch, D. C. (2008). "Mr. Ma's Taiwanese Identity,"Far Eastern Economic Review.
Lynch, D. C. (2007). Envisioning China’s Political Future: Elite Responses to Democracy as a Global Constitutive Norm. In International Studies Quarterly. Vol. 51, pp. 701-22.
Lynch, D. C. (2006). Rising China and Asian democratization: Socialization to “global culture.” In Political transformations of Thailand, China, and Taiwan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Lynch, D. C. (2005). Taiwan adapts to the network society. In E. Friedman (Ed.), China’s rise, Taiwan’s dilemmas, and international peace (pp. 130-146). London, UK/New York, NY: Routledge.
Lynch, D. C. (2005). Refocusing the Taiwan Nationalists’ ‘subjectivity’ movement. Washington, DC: Jamestown Foundation.
Lynch, D. C. (2004). Taiwan's self-conscious nation-building project. Asian Survey, 513-33.
Lynch, D. C. (2004). The Asia-Pacific region in a time of insecurity: Implications for public policy and the private sector. Report for the First Annual Pacific Rim Workshop organized jointly by the Pacific Council on International Policy and the University of Southern California. Los Angeles: Pacific Council and USC.
Lynch, D. C. (2003). The turbulent US-China Relationship: Insights from chaos theory and constructivism. Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, Claremont-McKenna College.
Lynch, D. C. (2002). Media in China; Socialist spiritual civilization; and Thought work. Three articles for The Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. New York: Scribner's.
Lynch, D. C. (2000). The nature and consequences of China's unique pattern of telecommunications development. In C.C. Lee (Ed.), Power, money, and media. Northwestern.
Lynch, D. C. (1999). After the propaganda state: Media, politics, and "thought work." In Reformed China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Honors and Awards:
Fieldwork grants awarded annually by the USC School of International Relations, Center for International Studies, and/or US-China Institute to research various aspects of Chinese elite thinking on the Chinese future, 2006-
Blakemore Foundation Grant for advanced Chinese language studies (for Taipei, Taiwan), 2004
Fulbright Foundation Senior Research Grant (for Bangkok, Thailand), 2000
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Research Grant (for Bangkok, Thailand and Taipei, Taiwan), 2000 (resumed in 2002)
Asia-Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Fellowship (to attend APRU workshops in Berkeley, Kyoto, and Bangkok), 1999
Social Science Research Council/MacArthur Foundation Fellowship on Peace and Security in a Changing World (for research at Stanford University and in Hong Kong, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Kunming), 1993