He is a fellow of the Keough School’s Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and Pulte Institute for Global Development. Eisenman’s research focuses on the political economy of China’s development and foreign relations with the United States and the Global South—particularly Africa. His latest book, “China’s Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement” (Columbia University Press, 2023) with Ambassador David H. Shinn, examines the full scope of political and security relations between China and Africa. It explains the tactics and methods that China uses to build relations with African countries and contextualizes and interprets them within Beijing’s larger geostrategy.

Eisenman also has written for popular outlets including Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Policy, and his views on China’s domestic and foreign policy have been quoted in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Economist, on National Public Radio and in many other prominent outlets.