A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
A nation must think before it acts.
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Sheena Chestnut Greitens was a 2024 Templeton Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and an Associate Professor and Director of the Asia Policy Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on security, authoritarian politics and foreign policy, and East Asia. In 2023-24, she is on leave to serve as a Visiting Associate Professor of Research in Indo-Pacific Security at the US Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute. She is also concurrently a Nonresident Scholar with the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Dr. Chestnut Greitens’ first book, Dictators and Their Secret Police (Cambridge, 2016), examined variations in internal security and repression in Taiwan, South Korea, and the Philippines during the Cold War, and won multiple academic awards. Her second book, Politics of the North Korean Diaspora (Cambridge, 2023), focused on authoritarianism, security, and diaspora politics. She is currently finishing her third book manuscript, which addresses how internal security concerns shape Chinese grand strategy.