Rush Doshi is an American

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

currently serving as an assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown University's

School of Foreign Service The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) is the school of international relations at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. It grants degrees at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Founded in 1919, SFS is the oldest continu ...

. He is also senior fellow for China and director of the Initiative on China Strategy at the

Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank focused on Foreign policy of the United States, U.S. foreign policy and international relations. Founded in 1921, it is an independent and nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit organi ...

(CFR). He served at the White House

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(NSC) in the

Biden administration Joe Biden's tenure as the List of presidents of the United States, 46th president of the United States began with Inauguration of Joe Biden, his inauguration on January 20, 2021, and ended on January 20, 2025. Biden, a member of the Democr ...

as Director and later Deputy Senior Director for China and Taiwan from 2021 to March 2024.

Education

Doshi graduated with an A.B. from the

Princeton School of Public and International Affairs The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (''abbrev.'' SPIA; formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of co ...

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 of

Robert Keohane Robert Owen Keohane (born October 3, 1941) is an American political scientist working in the fields of international relations and international political economy. Following the publication of his influential book '' After Hegemony'' (1984), he h ...

. He later received a Ph.D. in political science and government from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

. His dissertation, published in 2018, was titled "The Long Game: Chinese Grand Strategy After the Cold War." It served as the basis of his 2021 book titled "The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order." Stephen P. Rosen was his dissertation committee chair.

Career

Prior to joining the Biden administration, Doshi was founding director of the China Strategy Initiative at the

Brookings Institution The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global econo ...

and an adjunct senior fellow in the Asia-Pacific security program at the

Center for a New American Security The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is a think tank in Washington, D.C., specializing in United States national security issues, including terrorism, irregular warfare, the future of the U.S. military, the emergence of Asia as a global p ...

. He was a 2020 China Fellow at the

Wilson Center The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWICS) or Wilson Center is a Washington, D.C.–based think tank dedicated to research and policy discussions on global issues. Established by an act of Congress in 1968, it serves as both ...

. Doshi left the NSC in March 2024 and joined CFR as the C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia Studies. In June 2024, Doshi was named as the head of CFR's new China Strategy Initiative.

Select publications

Books

* "The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order," ''

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ...

'', June 11, 2021. (received the 2021 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award from

Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...

Mershon Center for International Security Studies The Mershon Center for International Security Studies is a research institute at the Ohio State University. The current director is Dorothy Noyes. History The Mershon Center was founded in 1952 upon the death of Ralph D. Mershon, an alumnus o ...

)

Reports

* China as a ‘cyber great power’: Beijing's two voices in telecommunications, ''

'', April 2021 (co-authored with Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic, and John Ferguson)

Articles

* The Biden Plan (in What Does America Want From China?), ''

Foreign Affairs ''Foreign Affairs'' is an American magazine of international relations and foreign policy of the United States, U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit organization, nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership or ...

'', May 30, 2024 * The Chinese Communist Party Has Always Been Nationalist, ''

Foreign Policy Foreign policy, also known as external policy, is the set of strategies and actions a State (polity), state employs in its interactions with other states, unions, and international entities. It encompasses a wide range of objectives, includ ...

'', July 1, 2021 * "How America Can Shore Up Asian Order," ''

'', January 12, 2021 (co-authored with Kurt M. Campbell). * The China Challenge Can Help America Avert Decline, ''

'', December 3, 2020 (co-authored with Kurt M. Campbell) * Beijing Believes Trump Is Accelerating American Decline, ''

'', October 12, 2020 * The Coronavirus Could Reshape Global Order, ''

'', March 18, 2020 (co-authored with Kurt M. Campbell) * China Steps Up Its Information War in Taiwan, ''

'', January 9, 2020 * "Beyond the San Hai: The Challenge of China’s Blue-Water Navy," ''

'', May 15, 2017 (co-authored with

Patrick M. Cronin Patrick M. Cronin is an American political scientist and writer. He is a national security policy expert currently serving as chair for Asia-Pacific Security at Hudson Institute and a scholar in residence at Carnegie Mellon University's Institute ...

, Mira Rapp-Hooper, Harry Krejsa, and Alexander Sullivan).

References

{{Authority control Living people American diplomats Political scientists on China Harvard University alumni Princeton University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) American foreign policy writers United States–Asian relations American sinologists American international relations scholars China–United States relations Taiwan–United States relations American political scientists United States National Security Council staffers Biden administration personnel