Oriana Skylar Mastro

Oriana Skylar Mastro
Mastro in uniform
Other names	梅惠琳
Education	Stanford University (BA) Princeton University (MA, PhD)
Occupations	Political scientist, China specialist
Employer(s)	Stanford University, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Spouse	Arzan Tarapore
Awards	U.S. Air Force Individual Reservist Company Grade Officer of the Year (2016 and 2022)
Website	www.orianaskylarmastro.com
Military career
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Air Force Reserve
Rank	Lieutenant colonel
Awards	Meritorious Service Medal

Oriana Skylar Mastro is an American political scientist and author. She is a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and assistant professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a strategic planner at the US Indo-Pacific Command. Her research focuses on Asia–Pacific security.

Career

Mastro holds a Bachelor of Arts (2006) in East Asian studies from Stanford University ^[1] (where she studied Mandarin) and a Master of Arts (2009) and PhD (2013) in politics from Princeton University. ^[2] From 2006 to 2007, Mastro was a junior fellow for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's China program. ^{[3] [4]} In 2008, while a doctoral student at Princeton, Mastro met with then deputy commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), Lieutenant General Dan P. Leaf, at a conference. Leaf suggested that she enlist in 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 region. ^[1] Despite initially deciding to continue with an internship instead, Mastro enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in late 2008 and later started officer training to commission as a second lieutenant. ^[1]

In 2009, Mastro joined the Department of Defense as an analyst for USINDOPACOM. 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. ^[5] In 2013, Mastro was appointed assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, ^[5] and in 2020, she was appointed a center fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. ^{[6] [7]}

In the meantime,^{[ when? ]} Mastro has also continued her military service in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. ^[2] She was named the Air Force's Individual Reservist Company Grade Officer of the Year in both 2016 and 2022. ^{[5] [8] [9]}

Publications

• Upstart: How China Became A Great Power, Oxford University Press , May 23, 2024 ^{[10] [11]}
• “Sino-Russian Military Alignment and Its Implications for Global Security,” Security Studies (April 2024): 1-37.
• “Talking to the Enemy: Explaining the Emergence of Peace Talks in Interstate War,” with David Siegel, Journal of Theoretical Politics 35, no. 3 (July 2023).
• “The Next Flashpoint? China, the Republic of Korea, and the Yellow Sea,” Asia Policy 18, no. 1 (January 2023): 67-93.
• “Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific,” in “Roundtable: Minilateral Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific,” Asia Policy 17, no. 4 (October 2022): 8-18.
• “Reassurance and Deterrence in Asia,” Security Studies 31, no. 4 (Fall 2022): 743-750.
• The Military Challenge of the People's Republic of China, in Defense Budgeting for a Safer World: The Experts Speak, Hoover Institution , November 1, 2023 ^{[12] [13]}
• Project Atom 2023: A Competitive Strategies Approach for U.S. Nuclear Posture through 2035, Center for Strategic and International Studies , September 30, 2023 (co-authored with Heather Williams, Kelsey Hartigan, Lachlan MacKenzie, Robert Soofer, Tom Karako, Franklin Miller, Leonor Tomero, and Jon Wolfsthal) ^[14]
• Deepening US–Taiwan Cooperation Through Semiconductors, in Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security, Hoover Institution , July 18, 2023 (co-authored with Kharis Templeman) ^{[15] [16]}
• The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime, Cornell University Press , Security Affairs Series, 2019 ^[17]

Personal life

Mastro is married to Arzan Tarapore, a research scholar at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. ^{[18] [19]}

References

1. University, Stanford (November 11, 2021). "Combining military service and scholarship". Stanford News. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
2. "AF Reservist is leading scholar on Chinese military". Air Reserve Personnel Center. May 8, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2024.
3. "Press Release: China's Military Escalation Could Destabilize Taiwan Strait". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . Retrieved June 15, 2024.^{[ dead link ]}
4. "Assessing the Threat: The Chinese Military and Taiwan's Security". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . Retrieved June 15, 2024.^{[ dead link ]}
5. "Oriana Skylar Mastro". American Enterprise Institute - AEI. Archived from the original on October 5, 2019. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
6. "Oriana Skylar Mastro". fsi.stanford.edu. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
7. "China and East Asian Security Expert Oriana Skylar Mastro to Become FSI's". fsi.stanford.edu. February 10, 2020. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
8. "Center Fellow Oriana Skylar Mastro Named 2022 Air Force Individual". aparc.fsi.stanford.edu. July 13, 2023. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
9. Konicki, John (October 23, 2020). "Congratulations to Oriana Skylar Mastro". American Enterprise Institute - AEI. Retrieved June 17, 2024.
10. Mastro, Oriana Skylar (2024). Upstart: how China became a great power. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-769507-4.
11. "Transcript: China's great power strategy". Financial Times. June 6, 2024. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
12. Mastro, Oriana Skylar (November 1, 2023). "The Military Challenge of the People's Republic of China" (PDF). Hoover Institution . Retrieved December 6, 2023.
13. "Defense Budgeting for a Safer World: The Experts Speak". Hoover Institution. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
14. Williams, Heather; Hartigan, Kelsey; MacKenzie, Lachlan; Soofer, Robert; Karako, Tom; Mastro, Oriana Skylar; Miller, Franklin; Tomero, Leonor; Wolfsthal, Jon (September 29, 2023). "Project Atom 2023". Center for Strategic and International Studies .
15. Templeman, Kharis; Mastro, Oriana Skylar. "Deepening US–Taiwan Cooperation through Semiconductors" (PDF). Hoover Institution . Retrieved December 6, 2023.
16. "Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security". Hoover Institution. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
17. "The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime". American Enterprise Institute - AEI. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
18. "Georgetown Visitors | campion-hall". www.campion.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
19. "Arzan Tarapore". fsi.stanford.edu. Retrieved December 6, 2023.