Instructor of International Affairs, The United States Military Academy, West Point.
Captain Merlin Boone is an Instructor of International Affairs at the United States Military Academy, West Point. His research focuses on modern geopolitical competition, economic statecraft, and East Asian security relations. Merlin is a U.S. Army Special Operations Civil Affairs Officer and has operational experience in Syria and the broader Asia-Pacific.
Captain Boone is a PhD candidate at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. He holds a master’s degree in International and Public Affairs from the University of Hong Kong, China and bachelor's degrees...
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Dominican University.
I am currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Dominican University of California. My research interests are interdisciplinary in nature and lie at the intersection of social psychology, political science, and culture. I study ideology in the East Asian cultural context, the national identity issue in cross-strait relations, and the role of culture-specific emotions at the group level in motivating international conflict. I am particularly interested in exploring international relations from the angles of political psychology and culture.
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Santa Clara University.
Hsin-I Cheng is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Santa Clara University. She studies human communication through historical and sociopolitical lenses with methods such as ethnographic fieldwork, qualitative interviewing, and discourse analyses. Her first book Culturing interface: Identity, communication, and Chinese transnationalism investigates the experiences of Taiwanese and Chinese communities living and working on the U.S.-Mexico border from a critical communication perspective. Her second book Cultivating membership in Taiwan and beyond: Relational...
Evan Dawley is Associate Professor of History at Goucher College, and he previously worked in the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State. He has carried out research on Japanese and Chinese colonialism in Taiwan, Taiwanese identity construction during the 20th century, the deportation of Japanese from Taiwan after 1945, and Japanese women settlers in Taiwan. He is currently studying the ongoing creation of Chinese identities in the context of relations between the Republic of China and communities of Chinese and Taiwanese abroad, and the ROC’s...
Director of Training & Technical Assistance, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS), University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.
Christine Lin is the Director of Training & Technical Assistance at the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) based at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, and has taught in the Refugee & Human Rights Clinic. Her research on the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and the advocacy of local autonomy led her to pursue a career in international human rights law advocating for the rights of asylum seekers and refugees.
As a Visiting Scholar at The George Washington University’s Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Ms. Lin is examining the coalescing of...
Research Scholar, Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, UC Berkeley.
Jane Darby Menton is a Research Scholar at the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, where she works on projects related to nuclear weapons, arms control, and the governance and regulation of emerging technologies. She read a PhD in Politics and International Studies at Cambridge as a Gates Scholar. Her thesis focused on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Prior to Cambridge, she worked as a journalist at Foreign Affairs and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360. Jane Darby is a Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum Fellow. She has an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from...
Research fellow, Caracristi Institute for Intelligence Research at National Intelligence University; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Forward Defense Practice, Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.
Gary J. Sampson is a research fellow at the Caracristi Institute for Intelligence Research at National Intelligence University, part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He is also a nonresident senior fellow in the Forward Defense practice of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a Ph.D. candidate at Tufts University’s Fletcher School, where his research examines post-Cold War alliance politics in East Asia.
An active-duty U.S. Marine Corps officer, Gary specializes in intelligence and international affairs, focusing on...
Associate Professor, Oakland University; Director, Barry M. Klein Center for Culture and Globalization, Oakland University.
Chiaoning Su, is an associate professor in Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations at Oakland University. She also serves as the director of the Barry M. Klein Center for Culture and Globalization.
Her research focuses on two distinct yet interconnected research lines: journalism of crisis and journalism in crisis. While the first line examines the representation and production of crisis news, the second focuses on journalism in public life during an era of waning democracy. Her work has been published in Media, Culture and Society, International Journal of Communication,...
Research Assistant, Global Taiwan Institute (GTI).
Adrienne Chih-fang Wu is a research assistant at the Global Taiwan Institute (GTI). With an interest in exploring the intersection of culture and policy, her research focuses on how Taiwan can strengthen international connections through nation branding, cultural diplomacy and a strong civil society. While at GTI, she has written about challenges to expanding Taiwan's creative space and conducted research on human rights issues in Taiwan, the importance of people-to-people ties to the New Southbound Policy, and governmental approaches to soft power.