Brendan Flynn is a Non-Resident Fellow in the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) and a PhD Candidate at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. His research explores how structural and domestic factors influence security dynamics in the US-China-Taiwan relationship. He previously conducted fieldwork in Taiwan as a Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) Scholar and studied Chinese at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) as a Boren Fellow. His work has been published in a GTI Occasional Report and in The National Interest. Prior to graduate school, Brendan studied Chinese and taught English in Beijing. He holds a BA from Bard College.