How to Defend Taiwan from China with CWP's Eyck Freymann and Francis Fukuyama

April 28, 2026

Frankly Fukuyama is the YouTube channel of Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Eyck Freymann is a fellow at the Hoover Institution, and author of the recently published book Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China: https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...

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Eyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University, where he directs the Allied Coordination Working Group. He is also a Non-Resident Research Fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, the Institute of Geoeconomics in Tokyo, and the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College.

Dr. 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 forthcoming Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China (Oxford, 2026), The Arsenal of Democracy: Technology, Industry, and Deterrence in an Age of Hard Choices (Hoover, 2025), and One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World (Harvard, 2021). His scholarly work has appeared in The China Quarterly and is forthcoming in International Security

Dr. Freymann comments on bipartisan national security issues in The Wall Street JournalThe New York TimesForeign AffairsThe EconomistWar on the RocksThe Wire China, and The Atlantic, among other venues. 

Before Hoover, Dr. Freymann held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and Columbia. He holds a doctorate from Oxford, masters degrees from Cambridge and Harvard, and a bachelors from Harvard, all in history and China studies.


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