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Rush Doshi

Rush Doshi is an American political scientist currently serving as an assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He is also senior fellow for China and director of the Initiative on China Strategy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He served at the White House National Security Council (NSC) in the Biden administration as Director and later Deputy Senior Director for China and Taiwan from 2021 to March 2024.

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Rush Doshi
Other name杜如松 (Dù Rú-sōng)
EducationHarvard University (PhD), Princeton University (BA)
OccupationPolitical scientist
Employer(s)Georgetown University, Council on Foreign Relations
Websitehttps://www.rushdoshi.com

Rush Doshi is an American political scientist currently serving as an assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.1 He is also senior fellow for China and director of the Initiative on China Strategy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).2 He served at the White House National Security Council (NSC) in the Biden administration as Director and later Deputy Senior Director for China and Taiwan from 2021 to March 2024.345

Education

Doshi graduated with an A.B. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in 2011 after completing a 142-page-long senior thesis, titled "China's Strategic Liberalism: Institutional Participation Under the Shadow of American Power," under the supervision of Robert Keohane.6 He later received a Ph.D. in political science and government from Harvard University.5 His dissertation, published in 2018, was titled "The Long Game: Chinese Grand Strategy After the Cold War."7 It served as the basis of his 2021 book titled "The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order."8 Stephen P. Rosen was his dissertation committee chair.7

Career

Prior to joining the Biden administration, Doshi was founding director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Brookings Institution910 and an adjunct senior fellow in the Asia-Pacific security program at the Center for a New American Security.11 He was a 2020 China Fellow at the Wilson Center.12

Doshi left the NSC in March 2024 and joined CFR as the C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia Studies.13 In June 2024, Doshi was named as the head of CFR's new China Strategy Initiative.14

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Books

Reports

  • China as a ‘cyber great power’: Beijing's two voices in telecommunications, Brookings Institution, April 2021 (co-authored with Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic, and John Ferguson)17

Articles

References

References

  1. DeFosse, Jenna (2024-03-20). "Security Studies Program welcomes Rush Doshi to Faculty". CSS. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
  2. "Rush Doshi". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
  3. "Biden's China Team" (PDF). The Wire China. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
  4. Allen-Ebrahimian, Bethany (February 2, 2021). "Biden's whole-of-National Security Council strategy". Axios. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
  5. Fabens, Mac (2023-04-03). "Biden's China Team: Who is Rush Doshi?". U.S.-China Perception Monitor. Archived from the original on 2023-06-16. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  6. Doshi, Rushabh (2011). "China's Strategic Liberalism: Institutional Participation Under the Shadow of American Power".
  7. Doshi, Rush. "The Long Game: Chinese Grand Strategy After the Cold War". Harvard Library. Retrieved February 10, 2024.
  8. "The long game: China's grand strategy to displace American order". Brookings. 2021-08-02. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  9. "Rush Doshi". Brookings. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  10. "Brookings Foreign Policy experts selected to join Biden administration in leadership roles". Brookings. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  11. "Rush Doshi". www.cnas.org. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  12. "Wilson China Fellows". www.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  13. "CFR Welcomes Sue Mi Terry and Rush Doshi as Asia Fellows | Council on Foreign Relations". www.cfr.org. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
  14. "CFR Launches Ambitious New China Strategy Initiative | Council on Foreign Relations". www.cfr.org. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
  15. "A Review of Rush Doshi's "The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order"". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  16. "Furniss Book Award for 2021 goes to The Long Game by Rush Doshi | Mershon Center". mershoncenter.osu.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  17. "China as a 'cyber great power': Beijing's two voices in telecommunications". Brookings. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  18. "What Does America Want From China?". Foreign Affairs. 2024-05-30. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
  19. Doshi, Rush (2024-02-22). "The Chinese Communist Party Has Always Been Nationalist". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
  20. Campbell, Kurt M.; Doshi, Rush (2021-01-12). "How America Can Shore Up Asian Order". Foreign Affairs. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  21. Campbell, Kurt M.; Doshi, Rush (2020-12-03). "The China Challenge Can Help America Avert Decline". Foreign Affairs. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  22. Doshi, Rush (2024-02-22). "Beijing Believes Trump Is Accelerating American Decline". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
  23. Campbell, Kurt M.; Doshi, Rush (2020-03-18). "The Coronavirus Could Reshape Global Order". Foreign Affairs. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  24. Doshi, Rush (2020-01-09). "China Steps Up Its Information War in Taiwan". Foreign Affairs. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  25. "Beyond the San Hai". www.cnas.org. Retrieved 2023-08-06.