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.^[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.^[3][4][5]

Rush Doshi
Other names	杜如松 (Dù Rú-sōng)
Education	Harvard University (PhD), Princeton University (BA)
Occupation	Political scientist
Employer(s)	Georgetown University, Council on Foreign Relations
Website	https://www.rushdoshi.com

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 Institution^[9][10] 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]

Select publications

Books

• "The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order," Oxford University Press, June 11, 2021.^[8][15] (received the 2021 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award from Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Security Studies)^[16]

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

• The Biden Plan (in What Does America Want From China?), Foreign Affairs, May 30, 2024^[18]
• The Chinese Communist Party Has Always Been Nationalist, Foreign Policy, July 1, 2021^[19]
• "How America Can Shore Up Asian Order," Foreign Affairs, January 12, 2021 (co-authored with Kurt M. Campbell).^[20]
• The China Challenge Can Help America Avert Decline, Foreign Affairs, December 3, 2020 (co-authored with Kurt M. Campbell)^[21]
• Beijing Believes Trump Is Accelerating American Decline, Foreign Policy, October 12, 2020^[22]
• The Coronavirus Could Reshape Global Order, Foreign Affairs, March 18, 2020 (co-authored with Kurt M. Campbell)^[23]
• China Steps Up Its Information War in Taiwan, Foreign Affairs, January 9, 2020^[24]
• "Beyond the San Hai: The Challenge of China’s Blue-Water Navy," Center for a New American Security, May 15, 2017 (co-authored with Patrick M. Cronin, Mira Rapp-Hooper, Harry Krejsa, and Alexander Sullivan).^[25]