Sheena Chestnut Greitens

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ABOUT SHEENA CHESTNUT GREITENS

Sheena Chestnut Greitens is Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin, where she directs UT\'s Asia Policy Program and serves as editor-in-chief of the Texas National Security Review. She is currently a visiting associate professor in Indo-Pacific security at the U.S. Army War College\'s Strategic Studies Institute, and a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dr. Chestnut Greitens\' research focuses on security studies, authoritarian politics & foreign policy, and East Asia. Her first book, Dictators and Their Secret Police (Cambridge, 2016), examined the effect of internal security organizations on repression in Taiwan, South Korea, and the Philippines during the Cold War, and won multiple academic awards. Her second book, Politics of the North Korean Diaspora (2023), analyzed the relationship between authoritarianism, security, and diaspora politics. She is currently finishing her third book manuscript, on internal security and Chinese grand strategy. Her work has appeared in academic journals and edited volumes in English, Chinese, and Korean, and in major media outlets. Her research has been published in International Security, International Organization, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Governance, Asian Survey, China Quarterly, and the Journal of Korean Studies, as well as Foreign Affairs and the New York Times, among others. She regularly testifies to Congress on challenges to security and democracy in the Indo-Pacific. From 20••••20, Chestnut Greitens was assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri, and founding co-director of MU\'s Institute for Korean Studies. She has been a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and International Studies\' Korea Chair, and the American Enterprise Institute. In 2017-18, Chestnut Greitens co-led the state of Missouri\'s trade missions to China and South Korea, and ran an interagency policy initiative that resulted in major legislative and executive-branch reforms to Missouri\'s policies on foster care, adoption, and prevention of child abuse and neglect. An advocate for women\'s leadership in public policy, she also worked to appoint women to statewide boards and commissions.She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University; an M.Phil from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar; and a bachelor\'s degree from Stanford University.