Who’s Speaking

Our speaker Dr. Andrew Scobell for ORCA's Global Conference on New Sinology 2025

Dr. Andrew Scobell

Dr. Andrew Scobell

Distinguished Fellow, United States Institute of Peace; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC, USA

Dr. Andrew Scobell is a distinguished fellow with the China program at the U.S. Institute of Peace and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC, USA. He focuses on U.S.-China relations, China’s armed forces and defense policy and China’s foreign relations with countries and regions around the world — with a particular emphasis on the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East. His publications include China’s Grand Strategy: Trends, Trajectories, Long Term Competition (RAND 2020), At the Dawn of Belt and Road: China in the Developing World (RAND, 2018), PLA Influence on China’s National Security Policymaking (Stanford University Press, 2015), China’s Search for Security (Columbia University Press, 2012), China’s Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March (Cambridge University Press, 2003).