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Zongyuan (Zoe) Liu (刘宗媛) is an IGP Senior Research Scholar at Columbia SIPA and the author of Sovereign Funds.

She completed her Ph.D at the Edwin Reischauer fellow at School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. Her main line of research is in the intersection between International Political Economy and Comparative Politics with area expertise in East Asia. She specializes in the political economy of government-owned investment funds. In the context of China and the world, her research focuses on China’s state-owned investment funds with the intent to evaluate the domestic-international interactions that underpinned China’s practice of financial statecraft. Her current book project examines when, why, and how China leveraged its foreign exchange reserves to capitalize several sovereign wealth funds for the purpose of advancing a state-prioritized agenda in global financial markets. From a comparative perspective, she also examines why and how Japan leveraged its foreign exchange reserves and discreetly transformed Japan’s government-owned financial institutions. Beyond her research on government-owned investment funds, Zoe has done intensive research on Persian Gulf-East Asia relations with a special focus on energy, finance, and infrastructure.

Zikun Yang is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program at Columbia University. She studies how rising powers shape and are shaped by the international order, with a focus on China and global governance. Her book project, Navigating Multiple Audiences, theorizes the causes and strategies of China's inconsistent compliance with components of the Liberal International Order (LIO), such as climate change and forcible humanitarian actions. Her other research investigates the sources of China's techno-nationalism and its consequences for international orders in emerging technologies (e.g., nuclear powers and outer space governance). 

Her academic work has been published by European Journal of International Relations, Pacific Affairs, Religions, and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 

Zikun completed her PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge. She received a MPhil with merit in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge, and a dual B.A. in International Relations and Law, History, and Culture (magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Southern California.

Zhenqing Zhang is an assosiate professor of political science in Hamline University's College of Liberal Arts. His research interests include international political economy, international institutions, Asian politics, democratization and human rights. He has extensive field work experience in China. Prior to joining Hamline University, he obtained a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, an MA in international studies and a  BA in English (Diplomacy) from Beijing Foreign Affairs College, China. Professor Zhang also holds a graduate certificate from Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies.

I am Assistant Professor of at the National School of Development, Peking University. Previously I served as Assistant Professor of International Relations for three years at Duke Kunshan University. My teaching and research interests include global China, African politics, and comparative political economy of development.

My book The Railpolitik (Oxford University Press) investigates why Chinese-financed and -constructed develop into starkly different trajectories in different African countries. I used process tracing based on extensive fieldwork in Kenya, Ethiopia, Angola, and China. My work has appeared in leading journals including Comparative Politics, Review of International Political Economy, World Development, China Quarterly, etc.

I completed DPhil in Politics at the University of Oxford. I hold a Master of Science (MSc) in Politics Research from Oxford, a Master of Public Policy (MPP) from Harvard Kennedy School, and a Bachelor of Law in international relations from Shanghai International Studies University. I was the 2021-22 fellow at the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program and Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Before Oxford, I served in the China office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and at the Sino-Africa Centre of Excellence Foundation Nairobi office. 

Yu ZHENG (郑宇) is a Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs (SIRPA), Fudan University. Prior to joining Fudan, he held the position of Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. He received his PhD at the University of California, San Diego and a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (2007-2008).

Yu ZHENG’s research interests include international development, international political economy, China and Africa, and business-government relations. He is the author of Governance and Foreign Investment in China, India, and Taiwan: Credibility, Flexibility, and International Business (University of Michigan Press). His publications have also appeared or forthcoming in journals such as Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Socio-Economic Review, and Studies in Comparative International Development.

Yinan He (何忆南) is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at Lehigh University. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on politics of memory and reconciliation, East Asian international security, Chinese and Japanese foreign policy, and national identity mobilization and nationalism in East Asia. She is the author of The Search for Reconciliation: Sino-Japanese and German-Polish Relations since World War II (Cambridge University Press, 2009). The book is the first systematic, scholarly study on post-conflict interstate reconciliation. In addition to her fellowship from Princeton-Harvard China and the World program, She has held An-Wang Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Studies at Harvard University, John M. Olin Fellowship in National Security at Harvard University, Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar Fellowship of the United States Institute of Peace, MacArthur Fellowship on Transnational Security Issues, and Japanese Government Mombusho Scholarship sponsored by the University of Tokyo, among others. In 2011-2013, she was selected as a Public Intellectuals Program (PIP) fellow of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. In AY 2012-2013 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. She holds a B.A. from Peking University and M.A. from Fudan University in international politics.

Yilang Feng (馮一郎) is a scholar of political economy and firm strategy, with a research focus on how firms’ overseas operations motivate their political actions in the US and China. His dissertation research is the winner of the Georgetown Best Paper in International Business and Policy award at the Academy of Management (AOM) 2019 Annual Meeting. His previous research papers have been published in Review of International Organizations and Political Science Research and Methods.   

Yilang currently works as an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at University of Illinois, Gies College of Business. He completed my Ph.D. in political science and dual masters in statistics from the University of Michigan. 

His book project entitled “Taking the Media High Ground: Overseas Operation and Policy Positioning on Chinese FTAs,” examines how firms participate in the making of China’s post-WTO trade policy and, in particular, how multinationals in China defend and advocate on behalf of the global trade regime.

Yeling Tan is Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Her research focuses on the political economy of globalisation, development, and policymaking, with a focus on China and the Asian region. She holds a PhD in Public Policy and an MPA in International Development from Harvard University, and a BA in International Relations and Economics from Stanford University. Prior to joining Oxford, Professor Tan was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon and a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University. She has also worked in the public and non-governmental sectors on a range of issues including economic development, international security policy, global governance and governance innovations. 

Professor Tan’s latest book is Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order (Cornell University Press Studies in Political Economy), which has been awarded the Peter Katzenstein book prize and the Georgetown Joseph S. Lepgold book prize. Her articles have been published in Comparative Political Studies, the Review of International Organizations, International Studies Quarterly, the China Journal, Governance, and Global Policy. Professor Tan’s earlier books include China Experiments: from Local Innovations to National Reform (Brookings Institution Press) and Asia’s Role in Governing Global Health (Routledge). Professor Tan has also written for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and Bloomberg Opinion.

For more information, visit Professor Tan’s personal website.

Dr. Yan Chang Bennett is a seasoned subject-matter expert in foreign policy and international law, contributing to the academic and practical applications of international affairs. Currently serving as the Deputy Chair of Global Issues (KCK, Inc) at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute, Dr. Bennett shapes the education of diplomats on key global and transnational issues critical to American foreign policy. With a rich background that includes experience as a tenured Foreign Service Officer serving in Singapore, China, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and bridge assignments at the Department, she has deep practical experience in political/economic issues as well as front office experience as Special Assistant to a U.S. Ambassador. Following her Foreign Service career, Dr. Bennett pivoted to research and scholarship on American foreign policy, contemporary Chinese politics, international law and multilateralism in the 21^st Century. Concurrent to her work at FSI, she teaches at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and the School of International Service at American University on such courses as Law and Diplomacy and UN and the International System, the UN Reimagined, China’s Global Ambitions, and International Law. Dr. Bennett also teaches Chinese Politics, Chinese Policy, and the Belt and Road Initiative for a government client through a prime contractor. Previously, she has taught 21^st Century U.S. Diplomacy and the History of American Diplomacy at Illinois State University. Dr. Bennett’s work is complemented by her prolific scholarship on U.S.-China relations and global security, making her an invaluable resource for students seeking to gain a deeper perspective on foreign policy, the international system, and U.S.-China relations. Her current book, American Policy Discourses on China, is out now. 

Yali Chen passed the dissertation defense, with distinction, in July 2015. Her dissertation, The PLA in China’s Foreign and Security Policy-making: Drivers, Mechanism and Interactions, studies the influence the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) exerts in China’s foreign and security policy-making process. She graduated from Renmin University of China with a B.A. degree in international relations in 1994 and received a master’s degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 2002.

Chen was a pre-doctoral research fellow at Brookings Institution in 2013-14. From 2002-2012, she worked for the Washington-based Center for Defense Information, World Security Institute (WSI), and Global Zero as a Research Analyst and Editor. In addition to conducting research and writing on U.S.-China relations, she focused on policy research on China’s military modernization, as well as a wide range of policy issues from nuclear arms control, non-proliferation, the South China Sea disputes, to the U.S.-China mil-to-mil relationship. She co-founded WSI’s China office, and China Security, an English-language policy journal devoted to U.S.-China security policy issues and a unique forum for Chinese thinkers to share their opinions with the policy circles of the United States. Chen also founded and managed Washington Observer Weekly, a Chinese-language e-magazine on U.S.-China relations, which reached numerous Chinese government officials and military officers, as well as university educators and academic researchers. She worked as the China Liaison for Global Zero, an international nuclear disarmament group, in 2008-2012, for which she interacted with relevant agencies including Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the PLA, the 9th Academy and China's arms control community to promote understanding and conduct dialogues on nuclear arms control. She taught international security crisis management at various universities including National Defense University of Technology.

Chen worked for China Daily as a reporter and Op-ed writer in 1994-2000. During her career as a journalist at China Daily, she won national news awards including: the first prize of China’s International News Award, granted by the News Office of China’s State Council in 1997; the second prize of China’s Legislation News, granted by China’s National People’s Congress; and the third prize of China’s International News Award in 1995.

Her research interests include the PLA, China’s foreign and defense policy-making, maritime security policies, China’s science and technology policies, technology innovation and China’s regional development, and civil-military interactions.

Xu Xin (徐昕) is Acting Director of the China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program (CAPS) and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. He received a BA and MA in International Relations from Peking University and a PhD in Government from Cornell University.

He returned to Cornell and joined the CAPS program as CAPS Associate Director in 2007. He was formerly Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Politics at Peking University in China, and Associate Professor of Asia Pacific Studies at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan. He was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs, an International Fellow at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation in the United States, a Postdoctoral Fellow on National Security in the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, and a Visiting Research Fellow, Professional Specialist, and Acting Director of the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program at Princeton University.

His research and teaching focus on Chinese foreign policy and East Asian international relations. His areas of interest include the identity politics of the Taiwan issue, China’s grand strategy, East Asian security politics, and Olympics and international relations. He has published articles and book chapters both in English and Chinese about various issues in these areas. He has co-edited History of the People’s Republic of China’s Foreign Relations, 1949-1989 (Peking University Press, 1994), and co-translated Hans J. Morgenthau’s Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, 7th edition (Peking University Press, 2006), and coauthored The Beijing Olympiad: The Political Economy of a Sporting Mega-Event (Routledge, 2007). He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled The Power of Identity: China and East Asian Security Politics in the Post-Cold War Era.

Xiaoyu Pu is an associate professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is a Public Intellectuals Program fellow with the National Committee on United States-China Relations and a non-resident senior fellow with the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University. In the 2012-13 academic year, Pu was a postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program at Princeton University. In 2016, he was a Stanton Fellow at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Brazil. Pu is the author of Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order (The Studies in Asian Security Series, Stanford University Press, 2019). His research has appeared in International Security, International Affairs, The China Quarterly and The Chinese Journal of International Politics. He is an editor of The Chinese Journal of International Politics and an editorial board member of Foreign Affairs Review (Beijing).

Xiaonan Wang studies political economy and bureaucratic politics, with a regional specialization in China. Part of his research focuses on the political control of bureaucrats, the quality of government, and state-business relations. Part of his research focuses on Chinese overseas investment, especially on how Chinese investment affects local public opinion. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Maryland, College Park. During 2022-2023, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program.

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Maryland College Park United States

M.A., Public Policy, Tsinghua University Beijing China

B.A., Philosophy, Peking University Beijing China

B.A., Economics, Peking University Beijing China

Xiaojun Li (李晓隽) received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University and joined the department in 2013. He is currently Associate Professor of Political Science at UBC and non-resident scholar at the 21st Century China Centre at UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. He has also held visiting positions at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (2014-2015), Fudan Development Institute (2016), the East-West Center (2018), and the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute (2021).

His previous and ongoing research on international and comparative political economy can be broadly divided into three research programs that investigate (1) the impact of domestic politics on the process and content of foreign economic and security policies, (2) the impact of global supply chains on trade and investment, and (3) the political economy of trade liberalization in developing and post-communist countries. In all of these research programs, he uses China as the primary case of inquiry and employs a variety of methods, including interviews, archival research, survey experiment, and large-N analysis.

His recent books include Token Forces: How Tiny Troop Deployments became Ubiquitous in UN Peacekeeping (Cambridge University Press 2022), Fragmenting Globalization: The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the United States (University of Michigan Press 2021), and How China Sees the World: Insights from China’s International Relations Scholars (Palgrave 2019). His articles have appeared in general political science journals such as Journal of Politics and Political Science Research and Methods, internatioanl relations journals such as International Affairs and International Studies Quarterly, area studies journals such as Asian Survey, China Quarterly, and Pacific Affairs, as well as interdisciplinary journals such as Business and Politics, Regulation and Governance, and Studies in Comparative International Development. His research has received grants and awards from such organizations as the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the National Science Foundation of the United States, the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, the Association of Chinese Political Studies, and the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation.

At UBC, he offers undergraduate and graduate courses in international political economy, international relations of the Asia-Pacific, Chinese politics and Development, China in the World, and Quantitative Methods. For more information on his published and ongoing research, please visit his personal website.

Dr. William Norris is an Associate Professor of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy at Texas A&M University, where he leads the Economic Statecraft Program and directs the Bush School’s concentration in China Studies. His research interests include East Asian security, business-government relations, Chinese foreign and security policy, grand strategy, and international relations theory—particularly the strategic relationship between economics and national security. He has received numerous awards, including the Asia Foundation’s Domestic Dimension of International Affairs Grant, the Bush School’s Faculty Excellence Award, and the Smith Richardson Foundation’s World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship. He was selected as a National Asia Research Program Fellow by the National Bureau of Asian Research and as a “Public Intellectual” of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and serves on the advisory board of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs. Dr. Norris was also an Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program. He completed his doctoral work with the Security Studies Program in the Department of Political Science at MIT.

His broad research interests include East Asian security, business-government relations, Chinese foreign and security policy, and international relations theory—particularly the strategic relationship between economics and national security. His recent work focuses on the use of commercial sector actors to achieve national foreign policy objectives in the context of Chinese grand strategy.

Dr. Norris received an A.B. from Princeton University, summa cum laude, in 1999, and has spent significant time abroad studying Chinese and economics. Dr. William Norris is currently an assistant professor at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University where he teaches graduate-level courses in Chinese domestic politics, East Asian security, and Chinese foreign policy.

Wendy Leutert (吕丽云) is the GLP-Ming Z. Mei Chair of Chinese Economics and Trade at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. Her research and teaching interests include political economy, comparative politics, and international relations, with a regional focus on China and East Asia. She holds a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. 

Her current projects focus on the reform and global expansion of China’s state-owned enterprises and the leaders of these firms. Other areas of my research include leadership in China's public sector, the politics of Chinese economic reform, corporate governance in state-owned enterprises, and Chinese companies’ overseas expansion.

Her research has been supported by the U.S. Department of Education through the Fulbright-Hays and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Programs, the Ford Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Chinese Scholarship Council, among others.

Previously she was an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (2018-2019), and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania. She also worked for International Crisis Group in Beijing. She has an MA in International Relations from Tsinghua University and a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Wellesley College.

Wendy also studies the political mobility of the heads of China’s largest and most strategically important state-owned enterprises, using an original dataset of these officials’ biographical information and company attributes that she developed beginning in 2013. Other areas of her research include the politics and process of China’s early reform and opening, corporate governance in state-owned enterprises, and bilateral investment treaties.

Weiwen Yin is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Asian and Policy Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program in 2020.

His research and teaching interests include comparative and international political economy, international law and organizations, historical political economy, and quantitative methods, with a regional focus of East Asia. His publications appear in Journal of Conflict Resolution, Review of International Organizations, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, among others. In 2019, his research was funded by the Japanese Studies Fellowship, Japan Foundation.

Before entering Texas A&M University, he received his B.A. from the School of International Studies, Peking University, M.P.P. from The University of Tokyo, and M.A. in political science from Central European University. He was also working as a research assistant at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore in 2015-2016.

Tyler Jost is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Tyler Jost’s research focuses on national security decision-making, bureaucratic politics, and Chinese foreign policy. His current book project examines domestic institutions designed to decide and coordinate national security policy, such as the U.S. National Security Council. He completed his doctoral degree in the Department of Government at Harvard University and held postdoctoral fellowships in the International Security Program at the Kennedy School of Government, as well as in the China and the World Program at Columbia University. He completed his undergraduate studies at West Point and served as a military officer with assignments to Afghanistan, U.S. Cyber Command, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Professor Hall earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2008 and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton and Harvard, as well as visiting scholar appointments at the Free University of Berlin, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the University of Tokyo. Prior to joining the University of Oxford, Professor Hall held the position of Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Toronto (2010-2013). Research interests extend to the areas of international relations theory; the intersection of emotion, affect, and foreign policy; and Chinese foreign policy. Recent publications include articles in International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Political Psychology, Political Science Quarterly, and Security Studies. Professor Hall has also published a book with Cornell University Press, titled Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage, which was recently named co-recipient of the International Studies Association's 2016 Diplomatic Studies Section Book Award.

Thomas J. Christensen is James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations and Director of the China and the World Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and the Pritzker Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC.  He was previously William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics at Princeton University.  From 2006-2008 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs with responsibility for relations with China, Taiwan, and Mongolia. His research and teaching focus on China’s foreign relations, the international relations of East Asia, and international security.  He has also taught at Cornell University and MIT. He received his B.A. from Haverford College, M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He was presented with a Distinguished Public Service Award by the United States Department of State.

M. Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taylor studies international relations, with a focus on international security, China, and East Asia. His books include Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes, (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Active Defense: China's Military Strategy Since 1949 (Princeton University Press, 2019). His other publications have appeared in International Security, Foreign Affairs, Security Studies, International Studies Review, The China Quarterly, The Washington Quarterly, Journal of Strategic Studies, Armed Forces & Society, Current History, Asian Survey, Asian Security, China Leadership Monitor, and Contemporary Southeast Asia.

Taylor is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University, where he received his PhD. He also has graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 2016, he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation. Taylor has been a member of the board of directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and serves as the Principal Investigator for the Maritime Awareness Project.

Tabitha Grace Mallory (马碧珊) is CEO of the consulting firm China Ocean Institute and Affiliate Professor of the University of Washington Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Dr. Mallory specializes in Chinese foreign and environmental policy. She is currently conducting research on China and global ocean governance and has published work on China’s fisheries and oceans policy. Dr. Mallory has consulted for organizations such as the United Nations Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund, the World Bank, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

As a CWP fellow based at Princeton University, she worked on a book manuscript on China and global fisheries governance based on her dissertation entitled “China, Global Governance, and the Making of a Distant Water Fishing Nation.” She has also worked for The National Bureau of Asian Research and for the U.S. government.

Dr. Mallory holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) and an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a certificate from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and a B.A. in international studies and Mandarin Chinese from the University of Washington.

Dr. Mallory serves on the board of directors of the China Club of Seattle and is a member of Washington State China Relations Council.

In 2025-26, I will be a postdoctoral fellow at the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science at Columbia University. My research interests span economic and military coercion, international institutions, and human rights. I study China’s foreign relations, with regional expertise in East and Southeast Asia. My dissertation examines the causes and consequences of countercriticism coercion by China.

My research has been funded by Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, and Columbia Experimental Laboratory in the Social Sciences. I was previously a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center. I graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, where I received a B.A. from the School of Public and International Affairs and a certificate in East Asian Studies.

You can view my CV here and reach me at [email protected].

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 3 to 5 PM and by appointment.

Scott L. Kastner is a Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park. He graduated from Cornell University (1995), and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego (2003). Much of Kastner's research focuses on the international politics of East Asia, and he teaches classes on international relations, US-China relations, international political economy, and East Asia. He is author of War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait (Columbia University Press, forthcoming), China’s Strategic Multilateralism: Investing in Global Governance (with Margaret Pearson and Chad Rector, Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Political Conflict and Economic Interdependence across the Taiwan Strait and Beyond (Stanford University Press, 2009).  His work has also appeared in journals such as International Security, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Security Studies, and Journal of Contemporary China.

Sabine Mokry is a researcher in the research and transfer project Arms Control and Emerging Technologies. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Leiden University (Netherlands). For the 2023-2024 academic year, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program.  Before pursuing her PhD, she worked at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) as a research associate focusing on China’s foreign and security policy. She studied International Relations and China Studies at the University of Passau, Free University of Berlin and at Nanjing University (China). 

Research profile

• Arms control
• China’s foreign and security policy
• Security cooperation between autocracies
• Military uses of new technologies (AI)

Memberships & professional activities

• Associate, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) 

Dr. Ronan Tse-min Fu is an Assistant Research Fellow in the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica (IPSAS). Prior to joining IPSAS, he was a Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of International and Public Affairs, with additional postdoctoral affiliations at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Department of Political Science, Columbia University.

Dr. Fu received a PhD from University of Southern California in Political Science and International Relations (2019). His research interests lie in the intersection of international relations theory and comparative politics, with a specific focus on grand strategy, East Asian security, Chinese politics and foreign policy, and historical roots of contemporary relations in East Asia.

Dr. Fu’s work has appeared in International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Political Geography. My research has been funded by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China, Fulbright Taiwan, China Times Cultural Foundation, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, among others.

He was a PhD candidate in Political Science at MIT. His research examines the strategies and tools rising powers use to shape international order, with a focus on the rise of China. He explores this question through three research streams. The first examines how China shapes international order by commandeering existing rules, rather than overturning them or building alternative institutions. The second examines the drivers and effectiveness of China’s economic statecraft, which Beijing has increasingly wielded to further its goals. The final stream studies how China sustains its capability for competition through indigenous technological development, especially those with military applications. In his spare time, he enjoy karaoke and trying out new recipes, and harbor dreams of opening a Chinese restaurant one day.

He will be teaching a course and physically in NYC as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program, an affiliate at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and an affiliate at the International Security Program at the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School from AY2025-26. 

During his fellowship at Columbia University he will, among other activities and research, transition his dissertation into a book manuscript. He dissertation 'How Rising Powers Shape International Order' will be expanded via analyzing historical cases of rising powers, specifically Japan during the interwar period and the 1980s. The interwar period presents a hard case for my theory, as rising militarism in Japan could have led it to abandon the ‘cautious’ assumption of the theory. In the 1980s, Japan and the US experienced similar economic tensions as China and the US do today, thus enabling a comparative analysis. Analyzing Japanese behavior during these periods allows me to test the theory against cases beyond China and leverage richer archival resources.

Starting Fall 2026, He will be an Assistant Professor in International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.

Before MIT, he worked in the financial crimes risk strategy division of an international bank in Hong Kong. He graduated with first class honors from the University of St Andrews, where he read International Relations and Modern History. He also holds an MA from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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Research Summary

Rachel Hulvey is an Assistant Professor of International Studies at Indiana University. She studies how rising powers attempt to reshape international order, with a particular focus on China’s strategies in cyberspace. Her book, Discourse Power: How China Shapes Cyber Order, examines how China and the United States compete to define global cybersecurity rules. The book shows how China deploys narratives—most prominently promoting the idea of “cyber sovereignty”—to build coalitions and attract support for an order aligned with its preferences. Her work draws on elite interviews in Shanghai and Beijing, survey experiments with diplomats, and text analysis of key venues such as the Internet Governance Forum, International Telecommunications Union, World Internet Conference, and UN cybersecurity negotiations. More broadly, she contributes to debates on international order, great power competition, soft power, and norm diffusion in international politics. 

Educational Background 

• Ph.D., Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
• M.A., International Affairs, Columbia University
• B.S., University of Virginia

Regions of Interest

• China
• East Asia 

Research Topics 

• Cyber governance
• Chinese foreign policy
• Great power competition
• Soft power 

Representative Publications

• Hulvey, R. A., & Simmons, B. A. (2025). Borders in cyberspace: Digital sovereignty through a bordering lens. International Studies Quarterly, 69 (3).
• Hulvey, R.A, Discourse Power: How China Shapes Cyber Order (book manuscript in progress)

Phillip Stalley has been​ at DePaul University since 2007. He teaches courses on a variety of subjects including Chinese politics, environmental politics, and international relations. Prior to joining DePaul, Phillip was a visiting research fellow at Princeton University in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World program. Professor Stalley also served as a visiting scholar in the environmental economics department at Fudan University in Shanghai. He is a member of the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Phillip's research focuses primarily on Chinese environmental politics. He is the author of Foreign Firms, Investment, and Environmental Regulation in the People's Republic of China (Stanford University Press, 2010) and his work can be found in academic journals such as The China Quarterly and Journal of Contemporary China. His current research project focuses on China's environmental diplomacy and its approach to international environmental institutions.​

Patricia M. Kim is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow at Brookings and holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies. She is an expert on Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and U.S. alliance management and regional security dynamics in East Asia.

Previously, Kim served as a China specialist at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where she focused on China's impact on conflict dynamics around the world and directed major projects on U.S.-China strategic stability and China's growing presence in the Red Sea region. She was also a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, International Security Program Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program at Princeton University.

Kim’s writing and research has been featured widely in outlets such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The South China Morning Post. She frequently briefs U.S. government officials in her areas of expertise and has testified before the House Intelligence Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.

Kim received her doctoral degree from the Department of Politics at Princeton University and her bachelor's degree with highest distinction in political science and Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Korean, and proficient in Japanese. Kim is also a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

https://www.brookings.edu/experts/patricia-m-kim/

Min Ye (叶敏) is the author of Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and The Making of Northeast Asia (with Kent Calder, Stanford University Press, 2010). Her articles, “China’s Outbound Direct Investment: Regulation and Representation” and “Diffusion or Learning: Foreign Direct Investment Liberalization in China,” have appeared in journals, Modern China Studies (2013) and Journal of East Asian Studies (2009).

Ye was the director of East Asian Studies program from 2010-2014 and led the proposal for the Asian Studies major at Boston University. She currently serves as the academic coordinator of the Asian Studies major. She also served as a visiting scholar at Fudan University, Zhejiang University, and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in China, as well as Rajiv Gandhi Foundation in India, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the National University of Singapore. In addition, she was a consultant on globalization for Chinese state-owned companies and private companies.

Ye is a Public Intellectual Program fellow of the National Committee on the U.S-China Relations, 2014-2016. In 2013, she was the recipient of the East Asia Peace, Prosperity, and Governance fellowship. She was also the recipient of the 2006 Millennium Education scholarship in Japan and the multi-year Bradley scholarship at Princeton University.  She received her PhD from Princeton University.

I am an assistant professor of political science and environmental studies at Fordham University. I am also a Wilson Center China Fellow and non-resident Fellow at the Global Development Policy Center, Boston University. Previously, I was Harvard Environmental Fellow and China and the World Program postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. I received my PhD jointly from Princeton’s Department of Politics and School of Public and International Affairs.

My research bridges political economy and interdisciplinary approaches to public policy, analyzing the behavioral and institutional foundations of environmental and economic governance. This research has been published in journals including The Journal of Politics, World Development, Energy Policy, Studies in Comparative International Development, Economics and Politics, Energy Research & Social Science, and Energy for Sustainable Development.

Please feel free to contact me at: meiralkon[AT]gmail[DOT]com.

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Maria Adele Carrai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Cross College. She previously served as Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at NYU Shanghai and taught as an adjunct at NYU School of Law. She has been an Associate at the Harvard University Asia Center since 2021 and an Adjunct Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute since 2019.

Her research examines the history of international law in East Asia and investigates how China’s rise as a global power shapes norms and reconfigures the international order, with particular interests in sovereignty, extraterritoriality, and digital governance. She is the author of Sovereignty in China: A Genealogy of a Concept since 1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and the forthcoming China’s Normative Power in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2026). She co-edited The China Questions 2: Critical Insights into US–China Relations (Harvard University Press, 2022) and The Cambridge History of International Law in Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2026). Her work has appeared in leading journals in international law and international relations.

She received her PhD from the University of Hong Kong, was awarded a three-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at KU Leuven, and was a fellow at the Italian Academy at Columbia University, the Princeton–Harvard China and the World Program, the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute, and a Global Houser Fellow at NYU School of Law.

Carrai is the founder and Executive Director of Mapping Global China, a research initiative that combines data and storytelling to build public-facing maps, datasets, and narrative outputs to better understand China’s global presence. The project has received support from the British Academy, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, and New York University (including NYU Shanghai). She has also a track record as an institution-builder and convener, developing collaborative research infrastructures and multi-stakeholder events that connect academic research with policy and public debate.

A TED Fellow, she delivered a talk at TED Headquarters and frequently provides expert commentary to a variety of international media, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, the BBC, The Atlantic, Vox, France 24, El País, and the South China Morning Post.

Manjari Chatterjee Miller is Professor of international relations, and the inaugural Munk Chair in Global India at the Munk School. She is a Senior Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations. She is also an associate at the Asia Center, Harvard University. An expert on India, China, and rising powers, she is the author of Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power (2021, shortlisted for the 2022 Hedley Bull Prize in International Relations), Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China (2013), and the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020). 

Previously, Miller was a tenured associate professor of international relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies, and the director of the Rising Powers Initiative at the Pardee Center, Boston University. She has also been a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council, a fellow at the Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, a visiting associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed and policy journals, and chapters in edited books. She serves on the international advisory board of Chatham House's International Affairs journal and the editorial board of the National Bureau of Asian Research's Asia Policy journal, and her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from multiple institutions. A frequent contributor to media and policy outlets in the United States and abroad, from 2020-2024 Miller was a columnist for the Hindustan Times. Miller received a BA from the University of Delhi, an MSc from the University of London, and a PhD from Harvard University. She was a post-doctoral fellow in the China and the World Program at Princeton University. 

Lucie Lu is an Assistant Professor of Graduate International Relations at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. Prior to this position, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center on Contemporary China at Princeton University in 2024 through 2025 and in the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program at Columbia University in 2023 through 2024 academic year. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2023.

In addition to academic positions, she has served as a non-residential Project Fellow at the Penn Project on the Future of US-China Relations and Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), where she provides academically-informed, policy-relevant analysis on US-China relations.

Her research interests include international organizations and cooperation, Chinese foreign policy and global governance, as well as political communication and computational social science. Her work primarily examines how rising powers like China use economic tools to influence the development of international norms, both in shaping existing norms such as human rights and in establishing emerging ones related to areas like renewable energy and information security. She previously taught at Columbia University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work has appeared in International Affairs, Journal of International Development, Studies in Comparative International Development and Political Science and Politics.

Selected Publications

Dai, Xinyuan and Lu, Lucie. “Beyond Liberal Narratives: China and International Human Rights Order.” Volume 101, Issue 2. March 2025. International Affairs.

Lu, Lucie and Williams, Miles. “Attention Versus Handshakes: Pathways of Influence in China’s Foreign Aid and Loans.” Volume 37, Issue 3. April 2025. Journal of International Development.

Lu, Lucie and Webb Williams, Nora. “Codes of Conduct at Political Science Conferences: Prevalence and Content.” Volume 57, Issue 4. 2024. PS: Political Science & Politics.

Yang, Yujeong, Lu, Lucie, Williams, Miles, and Jia, Xinle. “Connect First, then Suppress: Chinese vs. Western Communication Development Projects and Internet Freedom?” Studies in Comparative International Development. Online. 2025.

Kai He (贺凯) is Professor of International Relations at Griffith Asia Institute and Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, Australia. He is currently an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow (2017-2020). He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (2009-2010). He is the author of Institutional Balancing in the Asia Pacific: Economic Interdependence and China's Rise (Routledge, 2009), Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific: Rational Leaders and Risky Behavior (co-authored with Huiyun Feng, Routledge, 2013), and China’s Crisis Behavior: Political Survival and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2016). His peer-refereed articles have appeared in European Journal of International Relations, European Political Science Review, Political Science Quarterly, Review of International Studies, Security Studies, International Politics, Cooperation and Conflict, Contemporary Politics, Asian Survey, The Pacific Review, Journal of Contemporary China, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Asian Security, Asian Perspective, Australian Journal of Political Science, Australian Journal of International Affairs, International Relations of the Asia Pacific, and Issues and Studies.

He has also contributed Op-Ed articles to major newspapers and magazines in the Asia-Pacific, such as The People’s Daily (人民日报China), Beijing Review (China), The Global Times (环球时报China), The China Review (Hong Kong), The Straits Times (Singapore), Today (Singapore), Lianhe Zaobao (联合早报Singapore), The Diplomat (www.thediplomat.com, Japan),  East Asia Forum (http://www.eastasiaforum.org, Australia), and World Politics Review (www.worldpoliticsreview.com, the USA).  

He received a Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-2010), a Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Research Fellowship (2009-2010), an EAI fellowship (2011-2012) from the East Asia Institute in Seoul, an Asia Studies Fellowship (2012) from the East-West Center in Washington D.C., and a visiting fellowship (2014) from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. One current research project is funded by the MacArthur Foundation, USA.

Justin Key Canfil is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Strategy & Technology at Carnegie Mellon University (CMIST). A political scientist by training, Dr. Canfil's research concerns the impact of emerging technologies on international law, arms control, and international security. Prior to Carnegie Mellon, he held postdoctoral fellowships at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program. He also received a Fulbright Scholarship to China. In 2024, he will be a research associate at Princeton's Center on Contemporary China and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He received a PhD from Columbia University, with a specialization in International Law via Columbia Law School.

Academic Publications

Justin K. Canfil. “The Illogic of Plausible Deniability: Why Proxy Conflict in Cyberspace May No Longer Pay,” Journal of Cybersecurity (JOC), Vol. 8 No. 1, 2022.

Justin K. Canfil and Elsa Kania. “Mapping State Participation in Military AI Governance Discussions,” Oxford Handbook of AI Governance, Justin Bullock, Yu-Che Chen, Valerie Hudson, Anton Korinek, Matthew Young, Baobao Zhang (eds.), Oxford University Press (2022).

Justin K. Canfil. “International Legal Statecraft,” A War of Our Time: The Threat and Dynamics of Non-Military Warfare, Angstrom, Jonsson, Christianson, Kaihko (eds.), Georgetown University Press (2022, forthcoming).

Justin K. Canfil. “Innovation & Organizational Politics in the United States Air Force, Contemporary Military Strategy,” Fowler & McCaskey, eds., Georgetown University Press, 2018.

Justin K. Canfil. “Honing Cyber Attribution: a Framework for Assessing Foreign State Complicity,” International Affairs (JIA), Vol. 70 No. 1 p. 217-226, January 2017.


Policy Publications

“Technology Governance” (contributing author), US-China Futures Briefing Book, Schmidt Futures, March 2021.

“Trump’s Nuclear Test Would Risk Everything to Gain Nothing,” War on the Rocks, Jul 8 2020.

“Tear Gas is a ‘Weapon of War.’ Why is it Being Used to Quell Protests?” Lawfare, Jun 19 2020.

“The U.S. Will Exit The ‘Open Skies’ Treaty and It’s Unclear Why.” Lawfare, June 3 2020.

“50 Years After Apollo 11, China Is on Deck to Land Next. That Doesn’t Have to Be a Bad Thing,” The Diplomat, July 19 2019.

“Lessons on History and Statecraft,” with Lauren Dickey et al. War on the Rocks, August 9 2016.

Personal Website: www.jcanfil.com

Julian Gewirtz is an IGP Senior Research Scholar at Columbia SIPA, a former Senior Director for China and Taiwan Affairs at the White House National Security Council, and the author of Never Turn Back. 

He was a joint Weatherhead East Asian Institute / China and the World Program fellow for the 2020-2021 academic year. Before that he was an Academy Scholar at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He is the author of Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China (Harvard University Press, 2017) and a new book on the tumult, legacies, and historical manipulation of China's 1980s (Harvard University Press, 2021). He received his doctorate in modern Chinese history in 2018 from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has been a Lecturer in History at Harvard, a Fellow in History and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Special Advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy. His research is published in the Journal of Asian Studies, Past & Present, and Foreign Affairs. He has also written on Asia for publications including The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Politico, Caijing, Caixin, and Harper’s. (Twitter: @JulianGewirtz)

Degrees

PhD from MIT and BA from University of Michigan

 

Languages Spoken

Chinese, Russian

Bio

For more information, please see my personal website www.josephtorigian.com. I'm also on twitter: @josephtorigian.

I study the politics of authoritarian regimes with a specific focus on elite power struggles, civil-military relations, and grand strategy. I use primary sources, rare books, and interviews to provide new accounts of historical milestones in two nations of crucial geopolitical importance: China and Russia. In particular, I investigate how leaders in those nations secure themselves against threats at home and abroad. My research agenda contributes to several fields and disciplines: international relations, comparative politics, security studies, history, and Chinese and Russian studies.

My first book, Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao was published with Yale University Press in 2022. My second book, The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping was released with Stanford University Press in June 2025. It was a Financial Times Book of the Summer and an Economist Best Book of the Year So far. My current research agenda looks at nuclear weapons and the military-industrial complex in China and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

I am an associate professor at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, a senior fellow at the Council on Foriegn Relations, and a center associate of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Previously, I was a Research Fellow at Stanford's Hoover History Lab, Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton-Harvard’s China and the World Program, a Postdoctoral (and Predoctoral) Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), a Predoctoral Fellow at George Washington University’s Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, an IREX scholar affiliated with the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, a Fulbright Scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai, and a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations. My research has also been supported by the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation, MIT’s Center for International Studies, MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives, the Critical Language Scholarship program, and FLAS.

My views on Chinese and Russian politics and history have appeared in media outlets such as the BBC, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Economist, Financial Times, New York Times, New Yorker, NPR, Wall Street Journal, CNN, and others. I have also published in general interest journals like Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy.

John Minnich is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at LSE. His research focuses on the political economy of China’s technological rise and its impact on US-China relations.

His current book project looks at how domestic institutions and global production networks shaped China’s use of foreign technology transfer policies in the post-Cold War period. Other ongoing research projects examine the origins and implications of the US-China "Chip War," the durability of weaponised interdependence, and the evolution of Chinese industrial and technology policies.

John received his PhD from MIT. Prior to joining LSE, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program at Columbia University and Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Centre for the Study of Contemporary China.

Research Cluster affiliation

International Political Economy research cluster

Research Centre affiliation

Phelan United States Centre

Expertise

Rise of China, industrial and technology policy, US-China relations

Joel Wuthnow is an Adjunct Professor - Center for Security Studies (CSS) at Georgetown University.

He is a seniorresearch fellow in the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs at the U.S. National Defense University (NDU). His areas of interest include Chinese foreign and security policy, Chinese military affairs, U.S.-China relations, and strategic developments in East Asia. He is the author or editor of several books on China and its military and his articles have appeared in journals such as The China Quarterly, Chinese Journal of International Politics, Asian Security, Asia Policy, Journal of Strategic Studies, and Joint Force Quarterly. Prior to joining NDU, Dr. Wuthnow was a China analyst at CNA, a postdoctoral fellow in the China and the World Program at Princeton University, and a pre-doctoral fellow at The Brookings Institution.

Language(s)

Chinese (Speak Read Write)

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York - Ph.D., Political Science

University of Oxford - M.Phil

Princeton University - A.B., International Affairs

Jing Tao (陶靖) specializes in international relations, international law, China’s foreign policy, and East Asian security. During the 2015-2016 Global Fellowship period at NYU, she will continue work on a book manuscript entitled “Sovereignty Costs and China’s Socialization into International Legal Regimes: Evidence from Hard Law”. This project develops from her dissertation, and uses different types of “hard laws” with legalized dispute settlement mechanisms to examine the depth of China’s socialization in international legal regimes and the changes and continuities of China’s approach to state sovereignty. Meanwhile, she starts to work on a new project, examining how international law influences China’s strategies of managing maritime disputes and the dynamics of interactions among Asian states regarding those disputes in East and South China Seas.

She holds double B.A. degrees in International Relations and Economics, an M.A. degree in International Relations from Peking University, and a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from Cornell University. She was a post-doctoral research associate in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program at Princeton University in 2014-2105.

Her recent works will be forthcoming in the Journal of Contemporary China (2015), and in an edited book volume, China's Socialist Rule of Law Reforms Under Xi Jinping, published by Routledge (2016). 

Jessica Chen Weiss is the David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and the inaugural faculty director of the Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs (ACF) at SAIS. From August 2021 to July 2022, she served as senior advisor to the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department on a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars (IAF-TIRS). Weiss is the author of Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations (Oxford University Press, 2014). Her research appears in International Organization, China Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, and Review of International Political Economy. With commentary in the New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Times, and the Ezra Klein show, Weiss was profiled by the New Yorker and named one of Prospect Magazine's Top Thinkers for 2024. Weiss is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute Center for China Analysis and previously the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies at Cornell University and an assistant professor at Yale University. She founded FACES, the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford University. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, she received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.

Ja Ian Chong (莊嘉穎) holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and received his Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. His research focuses on security issues pertaining to China and the Asia-Pacific but crosses international relations, comparative politics, political sociology, and history. Ian previously worked with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies in Singapore, the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, and served as an infantry officer in the Singapore Armed Forces. His English and Chinese publications have appeared in Security Studies, Twentieth Century China, Journal of East Asian Studies, Asian Affairs, China Review International, the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies Working Paper Series, as well as edited volumes and newspapers.

Ian is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. His book, Imposing States: External Intervention and State Formation in China, Indonesia, Thailand, 1893-1952, is published by Cambridge University Press and received the 2014 Best Book Award given by the International Securities Studies Section of the International Studies Association.

Ian is currently working on projects examining how collective responses to power transtion by non-leading powers may affect regional order, the uses and misuses of historical data in international relations research on China and its implications, how political liberalisation may affect alliance politics, and the effects of political decentralisation on Qing external relations during the Boxer Episode (1899-1901).

Isaac B. Kardon (孔适海) is Assistant Professor at the U.S Naval War College, where he is a core member of the China Maritime Studies Institute. His areas of study and specialization are Chinese politics and law, with research and writing focused on East Asian maritime disputes, PRC foreign policy, and the law of the sea. Prior to joining the faculty at the Naval War College, Isaac was a Visiting Scholar at NYU Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute (2015-2016) and Adjunct Research Fellow at the National Defense University (2011-2015). During dissertation fieldwork on a Fulbright-Hays award in China (2014-2015), he was a Visiting Scholar with the PRC National Institute for South China Sea Studies in Hainan, China, and a Visiting Fellow at Academia Sinica in Taipei. From 2009-2011, he was a Research Analyst at the National Defense University’s Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs. He has lectured at Peking University, Tsinghua University, and National Taiwan University.

Isaac received a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University (2011-2016), where his dissertation “Rising Power, Creeping Jurisdiction: China’s Law of the Sea” analyzed China’s practice of the law of the sea, focusing on the PRC’s role in the development of the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) regime. He is revising this manuscript for publication as an academic volume during his fellowship at Princeton. He holds an M.Phil from Oxford University (St. Antony’s College) in Modern Chinese Studies, and a B.A. in History from Dartmouth College. He speaks, reads, and writes Italian, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese.

Injoo Sohn (孙仁柱) is Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Seoul National University. He was a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, and a CEAP visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has published articles in China Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Global Governance, Journal of Contemporary China, Pacific Review, Research & Politics, and Review of International Political Economy.

Hong Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the International Studies Department. With a PhD in Public Policy from George Mason University, her research focuses on China’s role in global development, particularly in infrastructure development and industrialization. Her fieldwork has taken her to various countries in Asia and Africa to examine China’s developmental impact. She co-edits the People’s Map of Global China and the Global China Pulse journal, initiatives that foster collective efforts to study China’s global presence. Prior to joining Indiana University, she was a China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (2022-2024), a Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program (2021-2022). She holds a Master's degree in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Renmin University of China.

Educational Background

Ph.D. Public Policy, George Mason University, 2021
MSc. Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2013
B.A. Economics, Renmin University of China, 2008

Research Topics

• Global development
• Infrastructure
• Industrial policy
• Global South
• Chinese political economy

Regions of Interest

• China
• Africa
• Pakistan
• Southeast Asia

Representative Publications

• Wang, Yuan and Hong Zhang, “Individual Agency in South-South Policy Transfer: China and Ethiopia’s Industrial Park Development”, Review of International Political Economy (2024):1-25.
• Zhang, Hong. “From Contractors to Investors? Evolving Engagement of Chinese State Capital in Global Infrastructure Development and the Case of Lekki Port in Nigeria.” Working Paper No. 2023/53. China Africa Research Initiative, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.
• Zhang, Hong. “Chinese International Contractors in Africa: Structure and Agency.” Working Paper No. 2021/47. China Africa Research Initiative, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.
• Zhang, Hong. “The aid-contracting nexus: The role of the international contracting industry in China’s overseas development engagements.” China Perspectives (4): 17.
• Wan, Ming and Hong Zhang. “China’s Investment Relations with Japan,” in Ka Zeng (ed.), The Handbook of the IPE of China, Edward Elgar Publishing: Chapter 7.

Eyck Freymann works on strategies to preserve peace and protect U.S. interests and values in an era of systemic competition with China. He is the author of several books, including The Arsenal of Democracy: Technology, Industry, and Deterrence in an Age of Hard Choices and One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World.

Dr. Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University and a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the U.S. Naval War College, China Maritime Studies Institute. 

He comments frequently in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Economist, War on the Rocks, The Wire China, and The Atlantic, among other venues, as well as on television and radio. His commentary focuses on national security issues of bipartisan concern. 

He also advises businesses and asset managers at Greenmantle, a consultancy, where he directs coverage of Indo-Pacific and technology issues.  

Eyck Freymann was a CWP fellow for 2022-23. Previously he was a doctoral candidate in China Studies at the University of Oxford, where he researches the geopolitics of climate change. He is Director of Indo-Pacific and global pandemic coverage at Greenmantle, a New York-based advisory firm, and a Non-Resident Research Fellow with the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College.

In the 2022–23 academic year he was a joint Fellow at the Arctic Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Columbia-Harvard China & the World Program.

Freymann’s first book, One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World (Harvard UP 2020), is assigned as required reading in Harvard’s “United States and China” introductory course for undergraduates. He also writes on a range of other current affairs topics, including U.S. politics and foreign policy and COVID-19. Freymann’s writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Economist, and The Atlantic, among others, and he is a reporter and columnist for The Wire China.

Freymann holds two masters degrees in China Studies: the first from Harvard University and the second from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Harvard-UK Henry Scholar. He earned his bachelors degree cum laude with highest honors in East Asian History from Harvard College.

Dr. Enze HAN is Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and Public Administration.  His research interests include ethnic politics in China, China's relations with Southeast Asia, especially with Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand, and the politics of state formation in the borderland area between China, Myanmar and Thailand. Dr. Han received a Ph.D in Political Science from the George Washington University in the United States in 2010. Afterwards he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the China and the World Program at Princeton University. During 2015-2016, he was a Friends Founders' Circle Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA. In 2017, he was a fellow at the East Asia Institute in Seoul, South Korea. His research has been supported by the Leverhulme Research Fellowship, and British Council/Newton Fund. Prior to Hong Kong, Dr. HAN was Senior Lecturer in the International Security of East Asia at SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom.

https://www.enzehan.com/

Dr. HAN welcomes students with research interests in Southeast Asian politics - particularly Thai and Myanmar politics - as well as on China's foreign relations with Southeast Asia, especially people with good quantitative training background, to apply for doctoral supervision at HKU.

Eleanor Atkins is a 2026-27 China and the World Program Fellow. Concurrently, she is a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She received her PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2025, with concentrations in security studies and international relations. Her research examines Chinese foreign policy, with a focus on the intersection of diplomatic statecraft and military power. Her dissertation, which she is developing into a book, analyzes variation in China's alliances and security partnerships.

Previously, Atkins was a predoctoral fellow in the International Security Program at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a Morgenthau Grand Strategy Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, a Peace Scholar Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, and a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow in the China Studies Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She also served as a research assistant at the Belfer Center. Atkins holds a BA in political science with highest honors from University of California, Berkeley and an MA in global affairs from Tsinghua University, where she was a Schwarzman Scholar.

Donglin Han (韩冬临) is currently an associate professor in the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China. He received his PhD in Social Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2009. His research focuses on Chinese public attitudes. He is the author of Image of the world: Chinese public attitudes towards International affairs (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2012, in Chinese). He has also published articles in the China quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Asian Survey, and the Chinese Journal of International politics.

Dingding Chen (陈定定) is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau where he teaches Chinese Politics and International Relations.  His current research interests include China's foreign policy, East Asian security, human rights in international relations, International Relations theory, and legal reforms in China.  His dissertation, “Transformation from within: Chinese Agency and International Human Rights Norms”, examines how and why changes in China’s human rights policy have taken place since 1978 by focusing on both international and domestic factors. In 2005-06, he was a visiting instructor in Government Department at Dartmouth College.  Dingding Chen was affiliated with the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University during his tenure as a CWP Fellow.  Dr. Chen holds a B.A. in International Economics, Renmin University of China, China and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago.

Dr. Dawn Murphy, Associate Professor of National Security Strategy at the US National War College, specializes in Chinese foreign policy and domestic politics, US-China relations, and international relations. Her research analyzes China’s interests and behavior as a rising global power towards the existing international order.

Murphy examines China’s relations with the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa in her book China’s Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing’s Alternative World Order (Stanford University Press, 2022) https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33516. It analyzes China’s foreign policy approach towards the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa regionally (e.g., political, economic, military, and foreign aid) and through detailed case studies of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF), the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), the China-Middle East Issues Special Envoy, the China-Africa Issues Special Envoy, China’s Special Envoy for Syria, China’s naval base in Djibouti, and China’s Belt and Road initiative. The project is based on extensive field work conducted as a Visiting Scholar with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, China; a Visiting Research Fellow with the American University in Cairo, Egypt; a Visiting Researcher at Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Chinese Studies in South Africa; as well as research trips to Beijing, Washington, D.C., Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

Dr. Murphy holds a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and Ph.D. in Political Science from George Washington University. Dr. Murphy’s previous academic appointments include Associate Professor of International Security Studies at the US Air War College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Princeton (Columbia)-Harvard China and the World Program at Princeton University. She also has private sector manufacturing experience in China and the U.S.

Daniel Suchenski is the Executive Director for the China and the World Program. Before coming to Columbia, Mr. Suchenski spent years developing and implementing international programming for executive education at the Wharton business school and for the last two years has worked as the executive director on special projects & workforce development initiatives for the governor of Delaware for the Delaware STEM Network. He has a bachelors from The George Washington University in international affairs, an MBA in sustainable management & an MS from the University of Pennsylvania in non-profit/NGO leadership. Finally he is a doctoral candidate with interests in public-private partnerships and international political economics.

Dalton Lin is a political scientist specializing in theories of international politics and foreign policy. His research interests focus on theorizing the bargaining between major and lesser countries, with an area focus on China and East Asia. He holds research affiliations with the Carter Center and the China Research Center and has been the Executive Editor of the website Taiwan Security Research since 2008. Prior to joining the faculty at Georgia Tech, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Courtney J. Fung is Associate Professor in the Department of Security Studies & Criminology at Macquarie University. She is concurrently Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University and also Associate Fellow in the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House, and is on the editorial board of Contemporary Security Policy and Australian Journal of International Affairs. Her research examines how rising powers address the norms and provisions for global governance and international security, with an empirical focus on China.

Courtney was previously an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong; a research fellow with the East Asia Institute (Seoul) in their Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia, and a post-doctoral research fellow with the now Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program.

Courtney is author of China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), which explains the effects of status on China's varied response to intervention and foreign-imposed regime change at the United Nations. Her book was shortlisted for the BISA LHM Ling Outstanding First Book Prize and received the 2019 - 2020 HKU Research Output Prize for the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Cooperation and Conflict, Global Governance, International Affairs, Journal of Global Security Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, PS: Political Science & Politics, The China Quarterly, Third World Quarterly, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and International Peacekeeping.

Courtney holds a PhD in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

Christina Lai (賴潤瑤) research focuses on the role of identity and foreign discourse in East Asian politics. She examines China’s foreign policy from 1990s to 2010, and investigates whether China’s peaceful rise discourse has successfully assured its neighboring countries. Her current project applies case studies to highlight the constitutive discourse in U.S.-China relations, and it accesses on the mechanisms through which constitutive power operated and the constraints it placed on Chinese and American foreign policies, particularly those on trade, environmental issues, Afghanistan, and U.N. Security Council votes. She is also fluent in Chinese and English. Christina Lai holds a M.A. in Political Science from New York University. She received a Ph.D. in International Relations from Georgetown University in 2015.  

Chi-hung Wei (韋奇宏) holds a PhD in political science from the University of Florida. His research has focused on the use of norms and economic statecraft by both great powers and small states, with a special focus on the U.S.-China-Taiwan triangle. His dissertation, entitled “From Sanctions to Engagement: Norms and U.S. Economic Statecraft toward China after Tiananmen,” examined the evolution of liberal discourses in U.S. policy toward China. One shortened version of it has been published in Millennium: Journal of International Studies. During the CWP fellowship period, he will revise the dissertation for publication as a book. His work has also been published in International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, The China Quarterly, Asian Security, and International Political Science Review.

Chengzhi Yin, assistant professor of political science at Syracuse university, teaches classes in Chinese foreign policy and international relations research methods. Previously, Yin was a postdoctoral research scholar in Columbia University’s China and the World Program. Yin was also a lecturer at Wellesley College and a research fellow in Tufts University’s Rising Power Alliances Project.

Yin’s research interests include international relations theory, great power conflict, rising powers, Chinese foreign policy, Asian security and Cold War history. His dissertation “Accommodation or Coercion: China’s Choices of Alliance Balancing Strategies,” is the basis of one published peer-reviewed journal article and a working book manuscript. Yin’s graduate studies were supported by a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellowship from the University of Notre Dame’s International Security Center and a dissertation fellowship from Boston College’s Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences.

Yin earned a Ph.D. from Boston College in 2022. 

Chengzhi Yin was a CWP fellow for 2022-23. Previously he was a PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at Boston College. His research interests include international security, grand strategy, and Chinese foreign policy. 

His dissertation title was: “Logic of Choice: China’s Alliance Balancing Strategies” Dissertation abstract: China uses alliance balancing strategies to divide adversarial alliances and bind its own. The dissertation explores the way China chooses its strategies, including coercion, accommodation, and a mixture of both. Using archives from China, the United States, and Russia, the dissertation conducts five case studies and identifies leverage and threat perception to determine China’s choice of these strategies.

Cheng-Chwee Kuik (郭清水) is Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia (UKM). He is concurrently a Non-resident Fellow at Johns Hopkins’ Foreign Policy Institute. Previously, Cheng-Chwee was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Princeton-Harvard “China and the World” Program and a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Department of Politics and International Relations. Professor Kuik’s research focuses on smaller state foreign policy, Asian security, and international relations. He served as Head of the Writing Team for the Government of Malaysia’s inaugural Defence White Paper (2020). Cheng-Chwee’s publications have appeared in peer-reviewed journals and edited books. Dr. Kuik’s essay, “The Essence of Hedging”, won the Michael Leifer Memorial Prize awarded by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. He is co-editor (with Alice Ba and Sueo Sudo) of Institutionalizing East Asia (2016), co-author (with David M. Lampton and Selina Ho) of Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia (2020), and author of the chapter on ASEAN and Southeast Asian states for David Shambaugh’s International Relations of Asia, 3rd edition (2022). His current projects include: hedging in international relations, elite legitimation and foreign policy choices, and the geopolitics of infrastructure connectivity cooperation. Cheng-Chwee serves on the editorial boards/committees of Contemporary Southeast Asia, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Asian Politics and Policy, International Journal of Asian Studies, and East Asian Policy. He is a member of the newly established Council on Indo-Pacific Relations (CIPR), EWC in Washington (EWCW). He holds an M.Litt. from the University of St. Andrews and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University. He can be contacted at [email protected].

Boliang Zhu is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. His research addresses the politics of globalization and development. He specializes in three areas of international and comparative political economy: multinational production and governance, the political economy of foreign direct investment flows, and emerging-market multinational corporations. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and Research & Politics.

Björn Jerdén is Director of the Swedish National China Centre. Björn has a PhD in Political Science from Stockholm University and a master’s degree in International Relations from Malmö University. He has been a guest researcher at National Chengchi University, National Taiwan University, National Chengkung University and Harvard University. From 2016 to 2020, Björn was the head of the Asia Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.  

Areas of expertise: Security politics, great power politics, China, Japan, the United States

Ayumi Teraoka is Assistant Professor of Politics at Brandeis University. She studies alliance politics and security issues in the Indo-Pacific. Her forthcoming book examines the history of U.S. alliance management in Asia from the 1960s to the present, illuminating the conditions under which the United States successfully negotiated geopolitically contested issues with allies, including air defense integration and the defense of Taiwan, in the face of China's opposition. Her research has been supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and the America in the World Consortium, among others. Before joining Brandeis, she held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Texas at Austin (2022-2023) and Columbia University (2023-2025), where she taught Japanese Foreign Policy for Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). She also previously held research positions at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Security Studies from Princeton University, an M.A. in Asian Studies from Georgetown University, and a B.A. in Law from Keio University.

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CV

(As of September 2025)

Honors

Strategy and Policy Fellowship

Smith Richardson Foundation , 2023-2024-2025

Shortlisted, 2024 Holland Prize for the Most Outstanding Article

The Pacific Affairs , July 2025

Organizational Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Politics, Department of Politics , Brandeis University

Education

Princeton University

Ph.D.

Georgetown University

M.A.

Keio University (慶應義塾大学)

B.A.

Austin Strange is Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Hong Kong University. He researches and teaches Chinese foreign policy, international political economy, and international development. Austin's current research focuses on China's past and present roles in the world economy, with an emphasis on China's relations with developing countries.

During 2021-2022 Austin is a Wilson China Fellow at the Wilson Center, and was previously a fellow with the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program. He received a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, M.A. from Zhejiang University, and B.A. from the College of William & Mary.

Audrye Wong is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at USC. Formerly, she was a Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, with additional postdoctoral affiliations at the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Program and at the An Wang China and the World Program at Harvard’s Fairbank Center. She completed her PhD in Security Studies at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Her research has also been supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Tobin Project, and the Bradley Foundation.

Her research interests cover Asia-Pacific security issues and China's foreign policy, at the intersections of international security and international political economy. She is interested in when and how states can translate their material capabilities into geopolitical influence. Her current book project examines China’s strategies of economic statecraft and patterns of effectiveness across different target countries. Other work has looked at the role of subnational actors in China’s foreign policy and at asymmetrical alliance relationships, with a focus on East and Southeast Asia.

Previously, She was a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She earned my BA in Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, with a minor in Translation and Intercultural Communication. During her fellowship, Audrye is working on her book manuscript on the strategies and effectiveness of economic statecraft.

Andrew Kennedy teaches international politics at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University in 2007. He also holds a Master's degree in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a B.S. in Psychology from Duke University. His research focuses on international politics in Asia, with particular interest in comparing the foreign policies of China and India. He is the author of The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru: National Efficacy Beliefs and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2012) as well as articles in International Security,The China Quarterly, Asian Survey, and Survival. In addition to serving as a Fellow in the China and the World Program, he has been a predoctoral fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard and a post-doctoral fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.  In 2013, He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Andrew S. Erickson (艾立信) is Professor of Strategy (tenured full professor) in NWC’s China Maritime Studies Institute. A core founding member, he helped establish CMSI and stand it up officially in 2006 and has played an integral role in its development; from 2021–23 he served as Research Director. CMSI inspired the creation of other Department of Defense research centers, which he has advised and supported; he is a China Aerospace Studies Institute Associate. Erickson has taught courses at NWC and Yonsei University, advises NWC student research and curricula, and supports NWC’s scholarly research relations with Japanese counterparts. He provides flag officer tailored education for NWC, both on and off campus; including in Honolulu, Taipei, Kaohsiung, and Naples.

Contact Information

@AndrewSErickson

http://www.andrewerickson.com/

Areas of Expertise

• A2/AD
• Aerospace
• Asia-Pacific
• Asymmetrical Warfare
• China
• China Maritime Studies Institute
• Cold War
• Deterrence
• Diplomacy
• Foreign Policy
• Geopolitics
• Indian Ocean
• International Relations
• Maritime History
• Maritime Strategy
• Military Technology
• National Security
• Piracy
• South China Sea
• Space
• Taiwan
• Weapon Systems

Professional Highlights

2023

Professor of Strategy, China Maritime Studies Institute, Naval War College

2021

Professor of Strategy and Research Director, China Maritime Studies Institute, Naval War College

2016

Professor of Strategy, China Maritime Studies Institute, Naval War College

2009

Associate Professor, China Maritime Studies Institute, Naval War College

2006

Assistant Professor, Strategic Research Department, Naval War College

2005

Research Fellow, Strategic Research Department, Naval War College

2004

Chinese Translator/Technical Analyst, Marine Science & Technology Division, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University, Politics (dissertation: “Great Power Aerospace Development: China’s Quest for the Highest High Ground”)

M.A., Princeton University, Politics (concentration: China/comparative politics and international relations)

B.A., Amherst College, History and Political Science magna cum laude (additional certificate in international relations)

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Related Credentials

Advanced Military Maritime Chinese Program, Naval War College
2008 to present

Advanced Chinese Study, Princeton in Beijing, Princeton University
2003

Intensive Intermediate Chinese Study, Princeton in Beijing, College of Chinese Language and Culture, Beijing Normal University
2002

Study of Japanese language, politics, and economics, Associated Kyoto Program, Doshisha University
1999-2000

Research Contributions and Publications

Publications by this Professor

Awards and Decorations

Commandant of the Marine Corps Professional Reading Program’s Reading List
For coedited volume “Chinese Amphibious Warfare: Prospects for a Cross-Strait Invasion”
2025

Samuel B. Griffith Foundation’s Publication of the Year
For coedited volume “Chinese Amphibious Warfare: Prospects for a Cross-Strait Invasion”
2025

Navy Superior Civilian Service Medal
U.S. Navy, 2024

Inaugural Civilian Faculty Research Excellence Award
Naval War College, 2017

Inaugural Ellis Joffe Prize for PLA Studies
National Bureau of Asian Research, 2012

Naval War College Foundation Capt. Hugh G. Nott Prize
Second Place, 2009

U.S. Naval Institute General Prize Essay Contest
Third Prize, 2009

Naval War College Foundation Capt. Hugh G. Nott Prize
First Place, 2006

Other Honors

Associate in Research, John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
2008-present

Series Editor, Studies in Chinese Maritime Development
2005-present

Expert Contributor, China Real Time Report, Wall Street Journal
2012-2017

Deployed in Pacific as Naval Postgraduate School Regional Security Education Program scholar aboard flagship aircraft carrier USS Nimitz
2013

Fellow, Princeton (Columbia)-Harvard China and the World Program, in residence at Center for Government and International Studies, Harvard University
2010-2011

Fellow, Public Intellectuals Program, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
2008-2011

Andrew Chubb is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion. A graduate of the University of Western Australia, his work examines the linkages between Chinese domestic politics and international relations. More broadly, Andrew's interests include maritime and territorial disputes, strategic communication, political propaganda, and Chinese Communist Party history. Andrew is the author of Chinese Nationalism and the Gray Zone: Case Analyses of Public Opinion and PRC Foreign Policy (Naval War College Press, 2021) andthe PRC Overseas Political Activities: Risk, Reaction and the Case of Australia (Routledge and Royal United Services Institute, 2021).

Anatol Klass is an Assistant Professor Assistant Professor U.S. Naval War College. 

Formerly, he was a CWP fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year. He is a historian with research interests focused on twentieth-century China. Anatol’s first book project, adapted from his dissertation, examines the bureaucratic development of the institutions through which the Chinese state engages with the world and the professional identities of experts working within those institutions. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2024 and, prior to joining CWP, was a predoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. Anatol’s research has been published in the International History Review and Cold War History. His writing on China has also appeared in publications including the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and History Today. 

Alison Kaufman was an Asia analyst in CNA's China Strategic Issues Group of the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) in Alexandria, Virginia. At CNA she has worked on issues related to China’s and Taiwan’s military culture, Chinese foreign and security policy, and cross-Strait relations. Her personal research focuses on the historical origins of and current trends in Chinese strategic and foreign policy debates. During the fellowship year she worked on a project entitled “The Sources and Evolution of Chinese Foreign Policy Thinking, 1895-2010,” examining the development of key vocabularies and premises of Chinese elite debates about the nature of the international order and China's place in the world.

Before joining CNA, Dr. Kaufman worked for the World Bank’s China program and at China Radio International in Beijing. She also worked as a subject matter expert on Chinese affairs for a well-known consultancy. Dr. Kaufman holds a Ph.D. in political science with a focus on Chinese political philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in East Asian studies from Harvard University. She has also studied Mandarin Chinese in Beijing at Capital Normal University and in Taipei at the International Chinese Language Program. She is the author of “The ‘Century of Humiliation,’ Then and Now: Chinese Perceptions of the International Order” in Pacific Focus (April 2010).

Alastair Iain Johnston (PhD University of Michigan, 1993) is the Gov. James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs in the Government Department at Harvard University. He has written on strategic culture, socialization theory, and identity and foreign policy, mostly with application to the study of East Asian international relations and China's international relations. Recently he has been working on how perceptions of identity difference and racialization may drive security dilemmas. Johnston is the author of Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History (Princeton 1995) and Social States: China in International Institutions, 1980-2000 (Princeton University Press, 2008), and is co-editor of Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power (Routledge 1999), New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy (Stanford 2006), Crafting Cooperation: Regional Institutions in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge 2007), Measuring Identity: A Guide for Social Scientists (Cambridge 2009), and Perception and Misperception in American and Chinese Views of the Other (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2015). He has published in International Security, International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Perspectives on Politics, The Cambridge Review of International Affairs, The China Quarterly, among other journals and edited volumes. From 2007-2024 he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control.

Dr. Alanna Krolikowski is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), where she specializes in policy for science, technology, and innovation.  Her research and teaching focus on policy for space activities, the Chinese and U.S. innovation systems, and China’s foreign relations. 

Dr. Krolikowski’s research has been published in the academic research journals Space Policy, Global Policy, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (A), the Journal of International Relations and Development, the Chinese Journal of International Politics, New Space, and the International Studies Review. She has twice testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission for the U.S. Congressional record and is a frequent contributor to news coverage of international developments in outer space.

Before joining Missouri S&T, Dr. Krolikowski was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the University of Alberta’s China Institute and a visiting professor in the society and economy of China at the University of Göttingen. 

Research Specializations

International Relations, at the intersection of International Political Economy and International Security Studies

Policy for Science, Technology, and Innovation

Comparative Politics

U.S.-China Relations

China’s Foreign Relations

Education

• 2013, PhD in Political Science, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
• 2006, Master of Arts in International Relations, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
• 2005, Bachelor of Arts in International Development Studies and Political Science, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)

Dr. Adam P. LIFF (黎雅澹) is Professor of East Asian International Relations and Founding Director of the 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative at Indiana University’s (IU) Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. Beyond IU, he is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for East Asia Policy Studies, as well as an Associate-in-Research at Harvard University’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. He is also the former Visiting Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Dr. Liff's research examines contemporary foreign policy challenges in East Asia—with a particular focus on Japan’s foreign (esp. defense) policy and the U.S.-Japan alliance; U.S. allies and Taiwan, Japan-U.S.-China relations; and U.S. Asia-Pacific strategy. His past academic and policy research affiliations include the University of Tokyo, the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Japan Chair, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Peking University, Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, RAND Corporation, the University of Virginia's Miller Center, Waseda University, and the Wilson Center.

Dr. Liff holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Politics from Princeton University, a postgraduate research certificate in international politics from the University of Tokyo, and a B.A. with honors and distinction from Stanford University. A dedicated teacher, he has received multiple commendations for his role in the classroom—including IU’s Trustees Teaching Award in 2024. His personal research website is https://adampliff.com/.