David McCourt
Non-Resident Fellow
Areas of expertise: China, Europe, grand strategy, great power competition, Russia
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David McCourt is non-resident fellow at Defense Priorities and an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California-Davis. His research interests focus on the social factors behind foreign policy-making in the United States, the E.U., and his native United Kingdom. He is currently working on a sociological analysis of the U.S., China, and Russia watching communities. He holds a BA in Modern History from the University of Oxford, an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in International Relations from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.