Policy & Other Publications
“The Extent (and Limits) of China’s Economic Influence,” The Diplomat, March 18, 2024.
“China’s Perspective on Economic Security,” Korea Policy (Dec 2023).
“China’s Economic Statecraft: Lessons Learned from Ukraine,” The Washington Quarterly, 46:1, p.121-136 (Spring 2023).
“The Age of Informational Statecraft,” Project Syndicate, June 2022.
“How Not to Win Allies and Influence Geopolitics: China’s Self-Defeating Economic Statecraft,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2021. (Winner of Best Policy Article on U.S. Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy, 2021 America in the World Consortium Article Prize competition)
“COVID-19 and China’s information diplomacy in Southeast Asia,” Order from Chaos, Brookings Institution, September 3, 2020.
“Trading for Influence?” Strategic Trade series, Center for Strategic and International Studies, May 22, 2020.
“Review of Ketian Zhang. “Cautious Bully: Reputation, Resolve, and Beijing’s Use of Coercion in the South China Sea.” International Security 44:1 (Summer 2019),” H-Diplo ISSF Article Review 134, April 9, 2020.
“China’s Economic Statecraft under Xi Jinping,” Revolution or Evolution? Xi Jinping and the Future of China’s Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution, January 22, 2019.
“Provincial Preferences and Mismatched Political Incentives Slow China’s Clean Energy Transition,” with Meir Alkon, Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy Brief, November 2017.
“Chinese Perspectives on Economic Diplomacy,” The Asan Forum, September 2016.
“Comparisons of the Alliance Thinking in Japan and South Korea as a Reflection of National Identity,” in ed. Gilbert Rozman, Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2016, Vol. 27, Korea Economic Institute of America, 2016.
“Key Factors in Chinese Shipyards’ Development and Performance: Commercial-Military Synergy and Divergence,” with Sue Hall, in ed. Andrew S. Erickson, Chinese Naval Shipbuilding: An Ambitious and Uncertain Course, Naval Institute Press, 2016.
Conflict and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Strategic Net Assessment, with Michael D. Swaine et al., Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, April 2015.
“Review of Sino-Japanese Relations after the Cold War: Two Tigers Sharing a Mountain by Michael Yahuda,” Asan Forum, March 2014.
“State Charter Law and Charter School Outcomes,” Michigan Journal of Public Affairs, 2014.
“Delegation from Regional to Global: ASEAN and the UN in Conflict Intervention,” Journal of Undergraduate International Studies, Fall 2013. (p.19-30)