Conflict, security, and peacekeeping | Foreign policy | Politics and Government in Asia

BA, Yale University (2008); PhD, Harvard University (2019)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The Domestic Political Origins of a Rising Power’s Regional Foreign Policy: China’s provocations and reassurances to Japan, South Korea and the Philippines from 1978 to 2018

RESEARCH CLASSIFICATION

International Relations of the Asia-Pacific

Comparative Foreign Policy

Security studies of Authoritarian Regimes

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Rising China and US alliances in East Asia

Measuring elite influence in foreign policy decision-making

Domestic politics of Sino-North Korean relations

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Comparative historical analysis

Text-as-data analysis

Archival research and elite interviews