Rush Doshi | |
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Nationality | American |
Other names | 杜如松 (Dù Rú-sōng) |
Education | Harvard University (PhD), Princeton University (BA) |
Occupation | Political scientist |
Employer(s) | Georgetown University, Council on Foreign Relations |
Website | https://www.rushdoshi.com |
Rush Doshi is an American political scientist currently serving as an assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. [1] He is also senior fellow for China and director of the Initiative on China Strategy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). [2] He served at the White House National Security Council (NSC) in the Biden administration as Director and later Deputy Senior Director for China and Taiwan from 2021 to March 2024. [3] [4] [5]
Doshi graduated with an A.B. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in 2011 after completing a 142-page-long senior thesis, titled "China's Strategic Liberalism: Institutional Participation Under the Shadow of American Power," under the supervision of Robert Keohane. [6] He later received a Ph.D. in political science and government from Harvard University. [5] His dissertation, published in 2018, was titled "The Long Game: Chinese Grand Strategy After the Cold War." [7] It served as the basis of his 2021 book titled "The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order." [8] Stephen P. Rosen was his dissertation committee chair. [7]
Prior to joining the Biden administration, Doshi was founding director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Brookings Institution [9] [10] and an adjunct senior fellow in the Asia-Pacific security program at the Center for a New American Security. [11] He was a 2020 China Fellow at the Wilson Center. [12]
Doshi left the NSC in March 2024 and joined CFR as the C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia Studies. [13] In June 2024, Doshi was named as the head of CFR's new China Strategy Initiative. [14]