LUO Shuxian

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I am an assistant professor (tenure-track) in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii, Mānoa. I was formerly a Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Taiwan-U.S.-Europe Policy Program Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a non-resident China Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, an assistant professor (tenure-track) at the U.S. Naval War College, a non-resident Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center, a post-doctoral research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and an adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). 

My research interests include Chinese foreign and security policy, maritime security in Asia, U.S.-China relations especially crisis management, and China-Russia relations in both the Indo-Pacific and Eurasia. 

My first book project, titled Simmering Seas: Escalation and Deescalation in China’s Maritime Disputes, explains when, why, and how China escalates incidents at sea arising from its maritime territorial and boundary disputes in the 21st century. The full manuscript has successfully completed peer review at Oxford University Press and is now waiting for final board approval for publication.

My second book project, tentatively titled Partners in Flux: China-Russia Relationship Across Four Strategic Regions, develops a novel framework to assess China-Russia interest convergence and divergence across four strategic theaters: the Indo-Pacific, Northeast Asia, Central Asia, and the Arctic.

My other ongoing research projects look at China’s strategy toward North Korea’s nuclear weapons program in the post-Cold War era, cross-Taiwan Strait security, China’s geopolitical and geo-economic interests in the Arctic, and how great powers learn from crises and war.

I received my Ph.D. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS, and hold an M.A. in China Studies and International Economics with a minor in Japan Studies from SAIS, an M.A. in Political Science from Columbia University, and a B.A. in English Literature from Peking University. 

Before embarking on my academic journey, I had worked as a journalist in Los Angeles.