Professor Minxin Pei on his book “The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China”
Matthew Kroenig on Assessing the Rising China-Taiwan Tensions
Matthew Kroenig is vice president for geostrategy and fellows and senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. In these roles, he manages the Scowcroft Cente... Read More
Sweden at a Crossroads: Erik Ramanathan on War, Alliance, and Arctic Competition
Erik Ramanathan is a diplomat, legal professional, and public policy leader who served as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden from December 2021 to January 2025. Credentialed in Stockholm just weeks before Russ... Read More
Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd on the Junta-Run Election in Myanmar
Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd is a faculty member at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, where she researches and teaches on U.S.-Myanmar relations, Southeast Asian security dynamics, economic-securi... Read More
Dr. Felicity Vabulas on her book “Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change.”
Dr. Felicity Vabulas is the Blanche E. Seaver Associate Professor of International Studies at Pepperdine University. Her research focuses on the political economy of international cooperation, and whe... Read More
Dr. Sebastien Peyrouse on Central Asia Between Competing Powers and the C5+1 Summit
Dr. Sebastien Peyrouse is the Director of the Central Asia Program and a Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs,... Read More
Daniel Sullivan on the Refugee Crises in Myanmar and Sudan
Dan Sullivan is the director for Africa, Asia, and the Middle East at Refugees International. He has more than two decades of human rights and foreign policy experience, previously working with United... Read More
Why Russia Invaded: Identity Narratives, Elite Loyalty, and the Costs Putin Is Willing to Bear
Dr. Yoshiko M. Herrera is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a leading scholar of identity, nationalism, and Russian politics. Her work spans the study of et... Read More
Dr. Elizabeth Wishnick on the Russia–North Korea Military Partnership
Dr. Elizabeth Wishnick is a Senior Research Scientist in China and Indo-Pacific Security Affairs at CNA and a Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Dr.... Read More
Dr. Robin LeBlanc on Sanae Takaichi, Gender, and Politics in Japan
Dr. Robin M. LeBlanc is the William Lyne Wilson Professor of Political Economy and Interim Head of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington and Lee University, where she teaches courses ... Read More