Research interests/expertise

• International relations of China and India
• Energy security and climate change
• US-China relations
• Leadership and foreign policy

Current projects

• Techno-nationalism and techno-globalism in the rise of China and India
• Energy security in China and India
  

Recent publications

• The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru: National Efficacy Beliefs and the Making of Foreign Policy (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
• “India's Nuclear Odyssey: Implicit Umbrellas, Diplomatic Disappointments, and the Bomb [PDF,134KB]”, International Security, Fall 2011, Vol. 36, No. 2 , pp. 120-153.
  © 2011 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/isec.
  
• “China’s Petroleum Predicament: Challenges and Opportunities in Beijing’s Search for Energy Security [PDF,258KB],” in Jane Golley and Ligang Song (eds.), Rising China: Challenges and Opportunities (Canberra: Australian National University E-Press, 2011), 121-35.
  
• “China's New Energy Security Debate [PDF,341KB],” Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, Vol. 52, No. 3 (June-July 2010), 137-158.
• “Military Audacity: Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, and China’s Adventure in Korea,” in Ernest May, Richard Rosecrance, and Zara Steiner (eds.), History and Neorealism (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
• “Can the Weak Defeat the Strong? Mao’s Evolving Approach to Asymmetric Conflict in Yan’an. [PDF,139KB]” The China Quarterly, No. 196 (December 2008): 1-16.
• “China’s Perceptions of U.S. Intentions toward Taiwan: How Hostile a Hegemon? [PDF,199KB]” Asian Survey vol. 47, No. 2 (March/April 2007): 268-87.
• Co-author, Jorge Dominguez et al., China’s Relations with Latin America: Shared Gains, Asymmetric Hopes, Working Paper, Inter-American Dialogue, June 2006.

Teaching

• CRWF 8000 Government, Markets, and Global Change
• POGO 8045 International Policymaking in the Shadow of the Future

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