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Dr. Sheena Greitens

Visiting Associate Professor

China Landpower Studies Center

Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Visiting Associate Professor
 
Sheena Chestnut Greitens is Visiting Associate Professor of Research in Indo-Pacific Security with the China Landpower Studies Center of the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College.  She is also an associate professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where she directs UT’s Asia Policy Program.   
 
Dr. Chestnut Greitens' research focuses on security, East Asia, and authoritarian politics & foreign policy, particularly in China and Korea.  Her first book, Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence (Cambridge, 2016) received multiple academic awards.  Her second book, Politics of the North Korean Diaspora (Cambridge: Elements Series in East Asia, 2023), addresses how authoritarian perceptions of security shape diaspora politics.  She is currently finishing her third book manuscript, which examines how internal security considerations shape Chinese grand strategy.  
 
Her work has appeared in academic journals and edited volumes in English, Chinese, and Korean, and in major media outlets.  Her research has been published in International Security, International Organization, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Governance, Asian Survey, China Quarterly, and the Journal of Korean Studies, as well as Foreign Affairs and the New York Times, among others.  She regularly testifies to Congress on challenges to security and democracy in the Indo-Pacific.  
 
From 2015-2020, Chestnut Greitens was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri and founding co-director of MU's Institute for Korean Studies. She has also been a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Korea Chair, and the American Enterprise Institute.  In 2017-18, as First Lady of Missouri, Chestnut Greitens co-led the state's trade missions to China and South Korea, and ran an interagency policy initiative on foster care, adoption, and prevention of child abuse and neglect.  An advocate for women's leadership in public policy, she also worked to appoint women to statewide boards and commissions.
 
She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University; an M.Phil from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar; and a bachelor's degree from Stanford University.

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Director’s Office

Dr. C. Anthony Pfaff – Director of SSI & USAWC Press​
Mr. Tom Kardos – Deputy Director
Melissa Holley – Administrative Officer

Strategic Research and Analysis Department (SRAD) & Outreach

COL Eric Hartunian – Director
LTC Paul Milas – Director of African Affairs
Dr. James D. Scudieri – Senior Research Historian
Dr. John R. Deni – Research Professor of JIIM Security Studies
Dr. Evan Ellis – Research Professor of Latin American Studies
Dr. M. Chris Mason – Associate Professor of National Security
Dr. Richard A. Lacquement, Jr. – Research Professor of National Security Affairs
Dr. Ron Gurantz – Research Professor of National Security Affairs
Dr. Michael E. Lynch – Research Associate Professor of the National Security Affairs

China Landpower Studies Center

COL Richard D. Butler – Director
Mr. Joshua Arostegui – Professor of Strategy, Chair of China Studies
Dr. Sheena Greitens – Visiting Associate Professor
Dr. Brian G. Carlson – Research Professor of Indo-Pacific Security Studies
Mr. Richard Gunnell – Research Professor of China Military Studies
Mr. Jake Vartanian – Military Analyst, Landpower and Warfare

USAWC Press

Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria II – Editor in Chief
Ms. Lori K. Janning – Managing Editor/Parameters
Mr. Richard K. Leach – Digital Media Manager
Dr. Erin Forest – Developmental Editor
Ms. Stephanie D. Crider – Copy Editor
Ms. Ellie Foster – Copy Editor
Mrs. Kristen Taylor – Visual Information Specialist/Content Manager
Ms. Kaitlyn Guettler – Visual Information Specialist

Operations and Programs

Vacant– Operations Officer

Alphabetical Listing

A – F

Arostegui, Joshua – China Landpower Studies Center Chair
Butler, COL Richard D. – China Landpower Studies Center Director
Carlson, Dr. Brian G. – Research Professor of Indo-Pacific Security Studies
Crider, Stephanie D. – Copy Editor
Deni, Dr. John R. – Research Professor of JIIM Security Studies
Echevarria II, Dr. Antulio J. – Editor in Chief
Ellis, Dr. Evan – Research Professor of Latin American Studies
Forest, Dr. Erin – Consulting Editor
Foster, Ms. Ellie – Copy Editor

 

G – J

Greitens, Dr. Sheena – Visiting Associate Professor, China Landpower Studies Center
Guettler, Ms. Kaitlyn – Visual Information Specialist
Gunnell, Richard – Research Professor of China Military Studies
Gurantz, Dr. Ron – Research Professor of National Security Affairs
Hartunian, COL Eric – SRAD Director
Holley, Melissa – Administrative Officer
Janning, Ms. Lori K. – Managing Editor/Parameters

 

K – O

Kardos, Mr. Tom – Deputy Director
Lacquement, Dr. Richard A., Jr. – Research Professor of National Security Affairs
Leach, Mr. Richard K. – Digital Media Manager
Lynch, Dr. Michael E. – Research Associate Professor of National Security Affairs
Mason, Dr. M. Chris – Associate Professor of National Security
Milas, LTC Paul – Director of African Affairs

P – Z

Pfaff, Dr. C. Anthony – Director of SSI & USAWC Press
Scudieri, Dr. James D.– Senior Research Historian
Taylor, Mrs. Kristen – Visual Information Specialist/Content Manager
Vartanian, Jake – Military Analyst, Landpower and Warfare​