Welcome to my website! I am an assistant professor in the Naval War College’s National Security Affairs Department and a non-resident associate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China.

My research focuses on great-power politics and China’s rise, naval power and geostrategy, and US Indo-Asia-Pacific defense and foreign policies. My work appears in Navies in Multipolar Worlds: From the Age of Sail to the Present and Security, Development and Sustainability in Asia: A World Scientific Reference on Major Policy and Development Issues of 21st Century Asia, as well as International Relations of the Asia-Pacific and Territory, Politics, Governance. I have also written for the China Brief, The Diplomat, the East Asia Forum, The National Interest, and the US Naval Institute, among others. I have testified on Taiwan issues before the Court of the Citizens of the World.

New book now available: China, Taiwan and the Crime of Aggression: An International Criminal Law Analysis of China’s Military Operations in the Indo-Pacific Region (JuraLaw, 2024).

My article with Hyun-Binn Cho is now available ahead of print in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations: “Muddied Waters: Freedom-of-Navigation Operations as Signals in the South China Sea.”

I hold an AM and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and an AB in Government from Dartmouth College.

You can find out more information on this website (such as my curriculum vitae), and check out my occasional tweets.