1975, Ph.D., Political Science, University of South Carolina
1968, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
1964, Chinese, Taiwan Normal University, Taipei
1964, M.A., Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
1961, B.A., University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- International Studies 235 - GREAT DECISIONS IN FORGN POLCY
- International Studies 261 - GOVT & POLITICS OF CHINA
- International Studies 262 - CHINA′S FOREIGN POLICY
- International Studies 263 - GOVT & POLITICS OF JAPAN
- International Studies 285 - THE EAST ASIA MIRACLE
- International Studies 395 - US FOREIGN POLICY IN EAST ASIA
- International Studies 431 - TOPICS IN INTERNATNL STUDIES *
- International Studies 432 - TOPICS: U S INTELLIGNC COMMNTY
- International Studies 460 - INTERNSHIP IN INTERNTL STUDIES
- International Studies 475 - SENIOR TUTORIAL
*Professor Copper uses his own book TAIWAN: NATION STATE OR PROVINCE?
John F. Copper—Books Authored (in reverse chronological order)
Historical Dictionary of Taiwan (third edition) (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007)
Playing with Fire: The Looming War with China over Taiwan (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006)
Consolidating Taiwan’s Democracy (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005)
Taiwan: Nation-State or Province? (fourth edition)(Boulder: Westview Press, 2003)
Taiwan in Troubled Times: Essays on the Chen Shui-bian Presidency (Singapore: World Scientific, 2002)
Historical Dictionary of Taiwan (second edition) (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2000)
Taiwan: Nation-State or Province (third edition) (Boulder: Westview Press, 1999)
As Taiwan Approaches the New Millennium: Essays on Politics and Foreign Affairs (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999)
Taiwan’s Mid-1990s Elections: Taking the Final Step to Democracy (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998)
Coping with a Bad Global Image: Human Rights in the People′s Republic of China, 1993–94 (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997)
The Taiwan Political Miracle: Essays on Political Development, Elections and Foreign Relations (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997
Taiwan: Nation-State or Province? (second edition) (Boulder: CO: Westview Press, 1996)
Words Across the Taiwan Strait: A Critique of Beijing’s White Paper on China’s Unification (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1995)
Bamboo Gulag: Human Rights in the People’s Republic of China, 1991-92 (Baltimore: University of Maryland School of Law, 1994)
Taiwan’s 1991 and 1992 Non-Supplemental Elections: Reaching a Higher State of Democracy (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994)
Historical Dictionary of Taiwan (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1993)
Tiananmen Aftermath: Human Rights in the People’s Republic of China (Baltimore: University of Maryland School of Law, 1992)
China Diplomacy: The Washington, Taipei, Beijing Triangle (Boulder: Westview Press, 1991
Failure of Democracy Movement: Human Rights in the People′s Republic of China, 1988/89 (Baltimore: University of Maryland School of Law, 1991)
Taiwan′s Recent Elections: Realizing the Democratic Promise (Baltimore: University of Maryland School of Law, 1990)
Taiwan: Nation-State or Province? (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990)
One Step Forward, One Step Back: Human Rights in the People′s Republic of China, 1987/88 (Baltimore: University of Maryland School of Law, 1989)
A Silent Revolution: Political Development in Taiwan (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988)
Human Rights in the People’s Republic of China (Boulder: Westview Press, 1988)
Reform in Reverse: Human Rights in the People′s Republic of China, 1986/1987 (Baltimore: University of Maryland School of Law, 1987)
Human Rights in Post-Mao China (Boulder: Westview Press, 1985)
Taiwan′s Elections: Political Development and Democratization in the Republic of China (Baltimore: University of Maryland School of Law, 1984)
China′s Global Role (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1980)
A Matter of Two Chinas: The China-Taiwan Issue in U.S. Foreign Policy (Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1979)
China′s Foreign Aid: An Instrument of Peking′s Foreign Policy (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Co., 1976)
Notes: China′s Global Role won the Clarence Day Foundation Award for Outstanding Research and Creativity in 1981.
Taiwan: Nation-State or Province? (fourth edition), As Taiwan Approaches the New Millennium; Taiwan: Nation-State or Province (second edition); Taiwan’s 1991 and 1992 Non-Supplemental Elections, Taiwan: Nation-State or Province? A Silent Revolution, and Taiwan′s Elections were all printed in both hardcover and soft cover.
Human Rights in Post-Mao China has a Chinese-language edition.
Taiwan: Nation-State or Province? Human Rights in Post-Mao China, China′s Global Role and China′s Foreign Aid all sold out in first printing and went into second printing.
Books #9, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20 & 23 were jointly authored.