Zack Cooper

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Zack Cooper
NationalityAmerican
Education Stanford University (BA), Princeton University (MPA, MA, PhD)
Occupation(s)National security and defense analyst
Employer American Enterprise Institute
Board member ofCenter on Sanctions and Illicit Finance, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Open Technology Fund

Zack Cooper is an American national security and foreign policy analyst currently serving as a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), [1] an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University, [2] and a lecturer in Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He also serves on the advisory boards of the Open Technology Fund and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance. [3] [4]

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Cooper's research focuses on US strategy and alliance building in Asia and US-China relations. [1]

Education

Cooper holds a BA in public policy from Stanford University. He earned a MA and a PhD in security studies as well as a MPA in international relations from Princeton University. [5]

Career

From 2005 to 2006, Cooper was a foreign affairs specialist at the U.S. Department of Defense and later became special assistant to the principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy from 2006 to 2007. From 2007 to 2008, he served as assistant to the deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism in the White House National Security Council. [1]

In 2010, Cooper joined the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments as a Research Fellow and in 2013, joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies as a Senior Fellow for Asian Security. In 2019, he was appointed co-director of and senior fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund. [6]

Cooper is a participant of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy convened by Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations. [7]

On US-Taiwan relations

In October 2023, Cooper visited Taiwan and met with President Tsai Ing-wen as a part of an AEI delegation led by Robert Doar, along with Kori Schake, Nicholas Eberstadt, Dan Blumenthal, among others. [8] [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Zack Cooper". American Enterprise Institute - AEI. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  2. ↑ "Georgetown University Faculty Directory". gufaculty360.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  3. ↑ "Zack Cooper". Open Technology Fund. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Zack Cooper". FDD. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  5. ↑ "Dr. Zack Cooper" (PDF). U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Zack Cooper Joins GMF as Co-Director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy | German Marshall Fund of the United States". www.gmfus.org. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  7. ↑ "The Task Force on U.S.-China Policy". Asia Society. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  8. ↑ "President Tsai meets delegation from American Enterprise Institute". english.president.gov.tw. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  9. ↑ "US think tank commits to strengthening US-Taiwan defense ties | Taiwan News | 2023-10-16 15:56:00". Taiwan News. 2023-10-16. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  10. ↑ "Does America Have an End Game on China?". ChinaFile. 2023-12-15. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
  11. ↑ Cooper, Zack (2023-12-18). "Does America Have an Endgame on China?". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
  12. ↑ "Biden's Asia Diplomacy Is Still Incomplete". War on the Rocks. 2023-08-23. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  13. ↑ Cooper, Zack; Liff, Adam P. (2021-08-11). "America Still Needs to Rebalance to Asia". Foreign Affairs. ISSN   0015-7120 . Retrieved 2023-08-11.
  14. ↑ Brands, Hal; Cooper, Zack (2021-03-16). "U.S.-Chinese Rivalry Is a Battle Over Values". Foreign Affairs. ISSN   0015-7120 . Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  15. ↑ Cooper, Zack; Rosenberger, Laura (2020-12-22). "Democratic Values Are a Competitive Advantage". Foreign Affairs. ISSN   0015-7120 . Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  16. ↑ Yarhi-Milo, Keren; Lanoszka, Alexander; Cooper, Zack (October 1, 2016). "To Arm or to Ally? The Patron's Dilemma and the Strategic Logic of Arms Transfers and Alliances". International Security . 41 (2): 90–139. doi:10.1162/ISEC_a_00250.
  17. ↑ Green, Michael J.; Schaus, John; Douglas, Jake; Cooper, Zack; Hicks, Kathleen H. (2017-05-09). Countering Coercion in Maritime Asia (Report). CSIS.
  18. ↑ Postwar Japan: Growth, Security, and Uncertainty since 1945.
  19. ↑ "Strategic Japan: New Approaches to Foreign Policy and the U.S.-Japan Alliance" (PDF). CSIS. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
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