Oriana Skylar Mastro

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Oriana Skylar Mastro
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US political scientist and Air Force officer Oriana S. Mastro in uniform
NationalityAmerican
Other names梅惠琳
Education Stanford University (BA), Princeton University (PhD)
Occupation(s) Political scientist, China specialist
Employer(s) Stanford University, American Enterprise Institute
SpouseArzan Tarapore
Website https://www.orianaskylarmastro.com

Oriana Skylar Mastro is an American political scientist currently serving as a Courtesy Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Center Fellow (tenure-track) at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. [1] She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute [2] and continues to serve in the US Air Force Reserve as a strategic planner at the US Indo-Pacific Command.

Contents

Mastro's research focuses on the Chinese military, Asia-Pacific security, war termination, and coercive diplomacy. [3]

Education

Mastro holds a BA (2006) in East Asian Studies from Stanford University [4] and a MA (2009) and PhD (2013) in politics from Princeton University. [5] [6]

Military service and academic career

From 2006 to 2007, Mastro was selected as a junior fellow for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's China program. In 2008, she was part of the summer associate program at the RAND Corporation.

In 2008, while a doctoral student at Princeton, Mastro met with then deputy commander of the then U.S. Pacific Command (now U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, USINDOPACOM) Lt. Gen. Dan P. Leaf at a conference where she was invited to present research she and her colleagues at Carnegie's China program conducted earlier about the "military balance of power across the Taiwan Strait." Leaf suggested that she enlist into the U.S. military after learning about her plan to pursue a summer internship with USINDOPACOM to better research how the military dealt with issues in the Asia-Pacific. [4]

Despite initially deciding to continue with an internship instead, Mastro enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in fall 2008 and later started officer training to commission as a second lieutenant. [4]

In 2009, she joined the Department of Defense as an analyst for the U.S. Pacific Command. Subsequently, in 2010, she worked for the Project 2049 Institute as a summer associate. From 2012 to 2013, she was a fellow at the Center for a New American Security. [2]

In 2013, Mastro was appointed assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and in 2020, she was appointed a center fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

In the meantime, Mastro has also continued her military service in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, [7] including by serving as a China Strategist in the Strategic Studies Group from 2010 to 2013, serving as an Asia-Pacific Strategist in the Asia-Pacific Cell, serving as a Reserve Air Attaché for Asia-Pacific Region from 2014 to 2016, serving as a Political Military Affairs Strategist for the Pacific Air Forces from 2016 to 2020, among others. She has received various awards for her service, including the Air Force's 2016 Individual Reservist Company Grade Officer of the Year. [2]

Publications

Books

Contributed Volumes

Articles

Congressional testimonies

Personal life

Mastro is married to Arzan Tarapore, a research scholar at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. [22] [23]

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  4. 1 2 3 University, Stanford (2021-11-11). "Combining military service and scholarship". Stanford News. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  5. ↑ "CV". orianaskylarmastro. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
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  7. ↑ "AF Reservist is leading scholar on Chinese military". Air Force Reserve Command. 2017-05-08. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  8. ↑ "The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime". American Enterprise Institute - AEI. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  9. ↑ Mastro, Oriana Skylar (November 1, 2023). "The Military Challenge of the People's Republic of China" (PDF). Hoover Institution . Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  10. ↑ "Defense Budgeting for a Safer World: The Experts Speak". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
  11. ↑ Williams, Heather; Hartigan, Kelsey; MacKenzie, Lachlan; Soofer, Robert; Karako, Tom; Mastro, Oriana Skylar; Miller, Franklin; Tomero, Leonor; Wolfsthal, Jon (2023-09-29). "Project Atom 2023". Center for Strategic and International Studies .
  12. ↑ Templeman, Kharis; Mastro, Oriana Skylar. "Deepening US-Taiwan Cooperation through Semiconductors" (PDF). Hoover Institution . Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  13. ↑ "Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
  14. ↑ Mastro, Oriana Skylar (2024-02-19). "The Next Tripartite Pact?". Foreign Affairs. ISSN   0015-7120 . Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  15. ↑ Mastro, Oriana Skylar (2023-10-16). "Opinion | This Is What America Is Getting Wrong About China and Taiwan". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 16, 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
  16. ↑ Mastro, Oriana Skylar; Siegel, David A (2023-07-04). "Talking to the enemy: Explaining the emergence of peace talks in interstate war". Journal of Theoretical Politics. 35 (3): 182–203. doi:10.1177/09516298231185112. ISSN   0951-6298. S2CID   259628332.
  17. ↑ Glaser, Bonnie S.; Mastro, Oriana Skylar (2019-09-09). "How an Alliance System Withers". Foreign Affairs. ISSN   0015-7120 . Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  18. ↑ "China's huge exercises around Taiwan were a rehearsal, not a signal, says Oriana Skylar Mastro". The Economist. ISSN   0013-0613 . Retrieved 2023-08-12.
  19. ↑ Skylar Mastro, Oriana (April 26, 2023). "The Challenges of Deterrence in the Taiwan Strait - Recommendations for U.S. Policy" (PDF). AEI. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  20. ↑ Mastro, Oriana Skylar. "Statement before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on "Deterring PRC Aggression Toward Taiwan"" (PDF). U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
  21. ↑ "Testimony of Dr. Oriana Skylar Mastro before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on "A New Approach for An Era of U.S.-China Competition" (PDF). Senate Foreign Relations Committee. March 13, 2019.
  22. ↑ "Georgetown Visitors | campion-hall". www.campion.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
  23. ↑ "Arzan Tarapore". fsi.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
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