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 East Asia and great-power politics, naval power and geostrategy, and US 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 contributed testimony to the Court of the Citizens of the World and commentary to Newsweek and Voice of America Chinese.

My new book is now available: Continental Powers and Naval Development: Strategy Coherence, Threat Diffusion, and Success at Sea. Click on “Book” at the top of this page for more information, and check out my discussion of the book on the Center for International Maritime Security’s Sea Control podcast.

My article with Hyun-Binn Cho is now available as part of a special issue on foreign-policy signaling in the Indo-Pacific: “Muddied Waters: Freedom-of-Navigation Operations as Signals in the South China Sea” (The British Journal of Politics and International Relations). Click on “Additional Projects” at the top of this page for more information.

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 my curriculum vitae here and my occasional tweets on X.