American political scientist
Rush Doshi is an Americanpolitical scientist currently serving as an assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown University'sSchool of Foreign Service .[ 1] He is also senior fellow for China and director of the Initiative on China Strategy at theCouncil on Foreign Relations (CFR).[ 2] He served at the White HouseNational Security Council (NSC) in theBiden administration as Director and later Deputy Senior Director for China and Taiwan from 2021 to March 2024.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
Doshi graduated with an A.B. from thePrinceton School of Public and International Affairs in 2011 after completing a 142-page-long senior thesis, titled "China's Strategic Liberalism: Institutional Participation Under the Shadow of American Power," under the supervision ofRobert Keohane .[ 6] He later received a Ph.D. in political science and government fromHarvard University .[ 5] His dissertation, published in 2018, was titled "The Long Game: Chinese Grand Strategy After the Cold War."[ 7] It served as the basis of his 2021 book titled "The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order."[ 8] Stephen P. Rosen was his dissertation committee chair.[ 7]
Prior to joining the Biden administration, Doshi was founding director of the China Strategy Initiative at theBrookings Institution [ 9] [ 10] and an adjunct senior fellow in theAsia-Pacific security program at theCenter for a New American Security .[ 11] He was a 2020 China Fellow at theWilson Center .[ 12]
Doshi left the NSC in March 2024 and joined CFR as the C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia Studies.[ 13] In June 2024, Doshi was named as the head of CFR's new China Strategy Initiative.[ 14]
Select publications [ edit ] China as a ‘cyber great power’: Beijing's two voices in telecommunications,Brookings Institution , April 2021 (co-authored with Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic, and John Ferguson)[ 17] The Biden Plan (in What Does America Want From China?),Foreign Affairs , May 30, 2024[ 18] The Chinese Communist Party Has Always Been Nationalist,Foreign Policy , July 1, 2021[ 19] "How America Can Shore Up Asian Order,"Foreign Affairs , January 12, 2021 (co-authored withKurt M. Campbell ).[ 20] The China Challenge Can Help America Avert Decline,Foreign Affairs , December 3, 2020 (co-authored withKurt M. Campbell )[ 21] Beijing Believes Trump Is Accelerating American Decline,Foreign Policy , October 12, 2020[ 22] The Coronavirus Could Reshape Global Order,Foreign Affairs , March 18, 2020 (co-authored withKurt M. Campbell )[ 23] China Steps Up Its Information War in Taiwan,Foreign Affairs , January 9, 2020[ 24] "Beyond the San Hai: The Challenge of China’s Blue-Water Navy,"Center for a New American Security , May 15, 2017 (co-authored withPatrick M. Cronin ,Mira Rapp-Hooper , Harry Krejsa, and Alexander Sullivan).[ 25] ^ DeFosse, Jenna (2024-03-20)."Security Studies Program welcomes Rush Doshi to Faculty" .CSS . Retrieved2024-03-20 . ^ "Rush Doshi" .Council on Foreign Relations . Retrieved2024-05-30 .^ "Biden's China Team" (PDF) .The Wire China . RetrievedJune 16, 2023 .^ Allen-Ebrahimian, Bethany (February 2, 2021)."Biden's whole-of-National Security Council strategy" .Axios . RetrievedJune 16, 2023 . ^a b Fabens, Mac (2023-04-03)."Biden's China Team: Who is Rush Doshi?" .U.S.-China Perception Monitor . Archived fromthe original on 2023-06-16. Retrieved2023-06-16 . ^ Doshi, Rushabh (2011)."China's Strategic Liberalism: Institutional Participation Under the Shadow of American Power" . ^a b Doshi, Rush."The Long Game: Chinese Grand Strategy After the Cold War" .Harvard Library . RetrievedFebruary 10, 2024 . ^a b "The long game: China's grand strategy to displace American order" .Brookings . 2021-08-02. Retrieved2023-06-16 .^ "Rush Doshi" .Brookings . Retrieved2023-06-16 .^ "Brookings Foreign Policy experts selected to join Biden administration in leadership roles" .Brookings . Retrieved2023-12-18 .^ "Rush Doshi" .www.cnas.org . Retrieved2024-02-10 .^ "Wilson China Fellows" .www.wilsoncenter.org . Retrieved2024-07-22 .^ "CFR Welcomes Sue Mi Terry and Rush Doshi as Asia Fellows | Council on Foreign Relations" .www.cfr.org . Retrieved2024-08-04 .^ "CFR Launches Ambitious New China Strategy Initiative | Council on Foreign Relations" .www.cfr.org . Retrieved2025-05-01 .^ "A Review of Rush Doshi's "The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order" " .Council on Foreign Relations . Retrieved2023-06-16 .^ "Furniss Book Award for 2021 goes to The Long Game by Rush Doshi | Mershon Center" .mershoncenter.osu.edu . Retrieved2023-08-10 .^ "China as a 'cyber great power': Beijing's two voices in telecommunications" .Brookings . Retrieved2024-02-10 .^ "What Does America Want From China?" .Foreign Affairs . 2024-05-30.ISSN 0015-7120 . Retrieved2024-05-30 .^ Doshi, Rush (2024-02-22)."The Chinese Communist Party Has Always Been Nationalist" .Foreign Policy . Retrieved2024-02-13 . ^ Campbell, Kurt M.; Doshi, Rush (2021-01-12)."How America Can Shore Up Asian Order" .Foreign Affairs .ISSN 0015-7120 . Retrieved2023-06-16 . ^ Campbell, Kurt M.; Doshi, Rush (2020-12-03)."The China Challenge Can Help America Avert Decline" .Foreign Affairs .ISSN 0015-7120 . Retrieved2024-02-10 . ^ Doshi, Rush (2024-02-22)."Beijing Believes Trump Is Accelerating American Decline" .Foreign Policy . Retrieved2024-02-13 . ^ Campbell, Kurt M.; Doshi, Rush (2020-03-18)."The Coronavirus Could Reshape Global Order" .Foreign Affairs .ISSN 0015-7120 . Retrieved2024-02-10 . ^ Doshi, Rush (2020-01-09)."China Steps Up Its Information War in Taiwan" .Foreign Affairs .ISSN 0015-7120 . Retrieved2024-02-10 . ^ "Beyond the San Hai" .www.cnas.org . Retrieved2023-08-06 .
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