James Mann is author-in-residence at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He was previously a Washington correspondent, Beijing bureau chief and foreign affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

He is the author of three books about U.S. foreign policy:

Rise of the Vulcans (a New York Times best-seller); The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power; and The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan. He has also written three other books about America’s modern relations with China (Beijing Jeep, About Face and The China Fantasy). Mann’s writing was included in The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly, a collection of the magazine’s best articles of the past 150 years.

Mann has also served as a staff writer for the New Haven Journal-Courier, The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and The Baltimore Sun. He received the National Press Club Edwin M. Hood Award for diplomatic correspondence in 1993 and 1999, the Edward Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting in 1999, the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for best book of the year by a journalist in 2000 and the Asia-Pacific Award for best book about Asia in 2000.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, formerly a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, and serves as guest commentator for television and radio networks.

He earned his B.A. in sociology at Harvard University.