Release: Aaron L. Friedberg, Known for His Work on China and Great-Power Competition, Has Joined AEI as a Nonresident Senior Fellow
June 06, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Washington, DC (June 6, 2022) — American Enterprise Institute (AEI) President Robert Doar and Kori Schake, the director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at AEI, announced today that Aaron L. Friedberg has joined AEI as a nonresident senior fellow. His work will focus on China and US-China relations, great-power competition, and US foreign and defense policy.
Dr. Friedberg is concurrently a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, where he is codirector of the Center for International Security Studies. He is also a commissioner on the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a counselor of the National Bureau of Asian Research, nonresident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, and president and founding board member of the Alexander Hamilton Society. From 2003 to 2005, Dr. Friedberg served as deputy assistant for national security affairs in the Office of the Vice President of the United States. After leaving government, he was appointed to the Defense Policy Board and the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion.
He is the author, coauthor, or editor of several books, monographs, and book chapters. His books include Getting China Wrong (Polity Books, June 2022); Beyond Air-Sea Battle: The Debate over US Military Strategy in Asia (Routledge, 2014); A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011); In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America’s Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy(Princeton University Press, 2000); and The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895–1905 (Princeton University Press, 1988).
Said Robert Doar, “Aaron Friedberg is a star. The blending of his extended academic scholarship with his service in government at the highest levels gives him special insight into many of the threats facing us today. I am delighted that he has joined AEI, and I look forward to a long-lasting collaboration.”
Added Kori Schake, “My colleagues and I in AEI’s Foreign and Defense Policy team are jubilant that Aaron Friedberg has joined us. He has been the magnetic north that has inspired so much important scholarship on China and great-power competition, and we’re excited about the ways he’ll contribute to our important work of defending human dignity, expanding economic opportunity, and making the world a freer and safer place.”
Replied Aaron Friedberg, “I thank Robert Doar and Kori Schake for this great opportunity. My association with AEI goes back a long time, first as a member of AEI’s Council of Academic Advisers and now as a nonresident senior fellow. I very much look forward to working with new colleagues and old friends on some of the most important challenges confronting our country today.”
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