Rush Doshi

Rush Doshi is an American political scientist currently serving as senior fellow for China and director of the Initiative on China Strategy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served at the White House National Security Council in the Biden administration as Director and later Deputy Senior Director for China and Taiwan from 2021 to March 2024.

Education
Doshi holds a BA in East Asian studies from Princeton University and a PhD in political science and government from Harvard University. His dissertation, published in 2018, was titled "The Long Game: Chinese Grand Strategy After the Cold War." It served as the basis of his 2021 book titled "The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order." Stephen P. Rosen was his dissertation committee chair.

Career
Prior to joining the Biden administration, Doshi was founding director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Brookings Institution and an adjunct senior fellow in the Asia-Pacific security program at the Center for a New American Security. He was a 2020 China Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Books

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

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)

Articles

 * The Biden Plan (in What Does America Want From China?), Foreign Affairs, May 30, 2024
 * The Chinese Communist Party Has Always Been Nationalist, Foreign Policy, July 1, 2021
 * "How America Can Shore Up Asian Order," Foreign Affairs, January 12, 2021 (co-authored with Kurt M. Campbell).
 * The China Challenge Can Help America Avert Decline, Foreign Affairs, December 3, 2020 (co-authored with Kurt M. Campbell)
 * Beijing Believes Trump Is Accelerating American Decline, Foreign Policy, October 12, 2020
 * The Coronavirus Could Reshape Global Order, Foreign Affairs, March 18, 2020 (co-authored with Kurt M. Campbell)
 * China Steps Up Its Information War in Taiwan, Foreign Affairs, January 9, 2020
 * "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).