Jennifer M. Lind
Associate Professor of Government
Faculty Associate, Reischauer Insitute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University
Research Associate, Chatham House, London
Contact
Department(s)
Government
Center(s)
The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Education
- B.A. University of California at Berkeley
- M.I.A., School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California at San Diego
- Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Selected Publications
BOOKS:
Autocracy 2.0: How China's Rise Transformed Tyranny (Cornell University Press, 2025)
Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics (Cornell University Press, 2008).
ARTICLES:
"Back to Bipolarity: How China's Rise Transformed the Global Balance of Power," International Security (Fall 2024).
"Is Japan 'Back'? Measuring Nationalism and Military Assertiveness in Asia's Other Great Power," Journal of East Asian Studies (2021). With Chikako Kawakatsu Ueki.
"Narratives and International Reconciliation." Journal of Global Security Studies (2020)
Selected writings in the popular press
"The Broken Nuclear Umbrella: What Comes After Extended Deterrence," Foreign Affairs (July/August 2026). With Daryl G. Press.
"China's Smart Authoritarianism," Foreign Affairs, February 10, 2026.
"The Multipolar Mirage," Foreign Affairs, December 2025.
"Reality Check: American Power in an Age of Constraints." Foreign Affairs (March/April 2020). With Daryl G. Press.
"The Future of the Liberal Order is Conservative: A Strategy to Save the System." Foreign Affairs (March/April 2019). With William C. Wohlforth.
"Life in China's Asia: What Regional Hegemony Would Look Like," Foreign Affairs, Vol. 97, no. 2. (2018)
Founder and editor in chief, "Blue Blaze" Substack
"With US help, Japan’s stance towards China hardens," Financial Times, April 21, 2021.
“Japan’s Security Evolution, Not Revolution,” Wall St. Journal, July 21, 2015.