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Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth 2008 upon graduating with a PhD in Public Sloan Professor of Political Science at MIT Policy from Harvard University. She was and Director of the MIT Security Studies an Andrew Carnegie inaugural fellow and Program. Fravel studies international relations, a Harvard Academy fellow. Christia has with a focus on international security, China, done extensive experimental, survey and and East Asia. His books include Strong ethnographic fieldwork on conflict, identity, Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and and development in divided societies in the Muslim world. She is Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes (Princeton University presently working on projects around computation and conflict Press, 2008) and Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since on sectarianism in Iraq, refugee return in Syria and violence and 1949 (Princeton University Press, 2019). His other publications displacement in Yemen. Fotini is the author of Alliance Formation have appeared in International Security, Foreign Affairs, Security in Civil War, published by Cambridge University Press in 2012, Studies, International Studies Review, The China Quarterly, The which received the Luebbert Award for Best Book in Comparative Washington Quarterly, Journal of Strategic Studies, Armed Forces Politics, the Lepgold Prize for Best Book in International Relations & Society, Current History, Asian Survey, Asian Security, China and the Distinguished Book Award of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, Leadership Monitor, and Contemporary Southeast Asia. Fravel and Migration Section of the International Studies Association. is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University, Her articles have been published in Science, the Review of where he received his PhD He also has graduate degrees from Economic Studies, American Political Science Review, Journal of the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where Development Economics, and Annual Review of Political Science, he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 2016, he was named an Andrew among other journals. Her opinion pieces have appeared in Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation. Fravel is a member venues such as Foreign Affairs, The New York Times and The of the board of directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Washington Post. For her research, Fotini has received support Relations and serves as the Principal Investigator for the Maritime from the World Bank, USAID, the UN’s World Food Program Awareness Project. and the World Bank, among other funders. She graduated magna cum laude with a joint BA in Economics-Operations Eric Heginbotham is a principal research Research from Columbia College and a Masters in International scientist at MIT’s Security Studies Program Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at and a specialist in Asian security issues. Columbia University. Before joining MIT, he was a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, where Owen R. Cote, Jr. joined the MIT Security he led research projects on China, Japan, Studies Program in 1997 as Associate and regional security issues. Prior to that Director. Prior to that he was Assistant he was a Senior Fellow of Asian Studies at the Council on Director of the International Security Program Foreign Relations. After graduating from Swarthmore College, at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and Heginbotham earned his PhD in political science from MIT. He is International Affairs, where he remains co- fluent in Chinese and Japanese, and was a Captain in the U.S. editor of the Center’s journal, International Army Reserve. Security. He received his PhD from MIT, where he specialized in U.S. defense policy and international security affairs. He the Heginbotham is a co-editor, China Steps Out: Beijing’s Major author of The Third Battle: Innovation in the U.S. Navy’s Silent Power Engagement with the Developing World (Routledge, Cold War Struggle with Soviet Submarines, a book analyzing the 2018), a co-author of Chinese and Indian Strategic Behavior, sources of the U.S. Navy’s success in its Cold War antisubmarine and was the lead author of China’s Evolving Nuclear Deterrent warfare effort, and a coauthor of Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: (RAND, 2017) and U.S.-China Military Scorecard (RAND, 2015). Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Heginbotham has published numerous articles in Foreign Affairs, Fissile Material. He has written on the sources of innovation in International Security, Washington Quarterly and elsewhere. He is military doctrine, the future of war, nuclear and conventional force currently working on a book on Japanese military strategy. structure issues, and the threat of nuclear terrorism. 47 Erik Lin-Greenberg is an Assistant Oxford University, where he studied on a Marshall Scholarship. Professor of Political Science at MIT. His He has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Olin Institute for research examines how emerging military Strategic Studies, a predoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s technology affects conflict dynamics and Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and a Stanton the regulation and use of force. In his book junior faculty fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International project, he leverages experimental methods, Security and Cooperation. His research interests include nuclear archival research, elite interviews, and surveys proliferation and strategy, North Korea’s nuclear weapons, South to study how remote warfighting technologies – like drones and Asian security, and general security studies. cyber warfare – shape crisis escalation. In other ongoing projects, he explores how technology and public opinion influence alliance Richard Nielsen is an Associate Professor politics and decisions on the use of force. He is also interested in of Political Science at MIT. He completed the role of food in international politics. his PhD (Government) and AM (Statistics) at Harvard University, and holds a BA from His work has appeared in a variety of academic and policy Brigham Young University. His first book, outlets including Security Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Deadly Clerics: Blocked Ambition and the International Peacekeeping, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Paths to Jihad (Cambridge University Press) and War on the Rocks. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at uses statistical text analysis and fieldwork in Cairo mosques to the University of Pennsylvania, and a Carnegie Predoctoral Fellow understand the radicalization of jihadi clerics in the Arab world. at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Nielsen also writes on international law, the political economy Cooperation. of human rights, political violence, and political methodology. Some of this work is published or forthcoming in The American He completed his PhD in Political Science at Columbia University, Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, and an M.S. and B.S. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Political Analysis, and Sociological Methods and Research. His Institute of Technology. Before entering academia, he was an research has been supported by an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, active duty officer in the United States Air Force and continued to the National Science Foundation, the Harvard Academy for serve on the Joint Staff as a member of the Air Force Reserve. International and Area Studies, and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Vipin Narang is the Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science and Roger Petersen is the Arthur and Ruth member of the Security Studies Program at Sloan Professor of Political Science. He the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago and has taught at MIT His first book Nuclear Strategy in the Modern since 2001. Petersen