Andrew Latham

Andrew Latham

Non-Resident Fellow

Areas of expertise: China, deterrence, diplomacy, extended deterrence, grand strategy, great power competition, the Quad

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Andrew Latham is a non-resident fellow at Defense Priorities and a professor of international relations and political theory at Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN. He is also a regular opinion contributor at The Hill and a research associate with the Centre for Defense and Security Studies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He holds a PhD in Political Science from York University in Toronto, Canada.

Latham has served as nonproliferation, arms control, and disarmament research fellow and as a senior policy associate, both with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He has also been a lecturer at the Canadian Armed Forces School of Aerospace Studies, Winnipeg, Canada. Over the past three decades, Latham has taught courses on Chinese foreign policy, regional conflict and security, U.S. foreign and defense policy, international security, and great power competition.

Latham is currently working on a book titled China’s Grand Strategy: A History, 1950–2050, to be published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.


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