Welcome.  I am currently an Associate Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.   I direct UT's Asia Policy Program, a joint initiative of the Strauss Center for International Security & Law and the Clements Center for National Security.  Starting in January 2022, I am also a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American  Enterprise Institute (AEI). 

My research focuses on American national security, East Asia, and authoritarian politics and foreign policy.  I am currently working on two main research projects: one on internal security strategy and Chinese grand strategy, and another on authoritarian diasporas, particularly focused on North Korea. 

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Photo: View from Karakoram Highway, Xinjiang, China