Scott Brown

Scott A.W. Brown is Lecturer (Assistant Professor equivalent) in Politics & International Relations at the University of Dundee (UK), joining in September 2018. Previously, he was Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA). His book, Power, Perception and Foreign Policymaking: US and EU Responses to the Rise of China was published in 2017 as part of Routledge’s Studies in Foreign Policy Analysis series. Situated at the intersection between IR theory and FPA, his research focus at present covers UK-China relations, EU-China relations, EU-US relations, and UK foreign policy post-Brexit. He obtained his PhD from the University of Glasgow (UK).

Yu-Jie Chen

Dr. Yu-Jie Chen is an Assistant Research Professor at Institutum Iurisprudentiae of Academia Sinica and an Affiliated Scholar at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute of NYU School of Law. Her research focuses on human rights and international law and relations, particularly in the context of China, Taiwan and China-Taiwan relations. Her research has developed along four inter-related lines: (1) China’s authoritarian political and legal system; (2) China’s influence on the international human rights regime; (3) human rights and rule of law issues in China-Taiwan relations; (4) Taiwan’s interaction with international human rights norms. In addition to publishing in academic journals in the US, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the UK, she also writes op-eds and takes part in public-facing discussions.
Yu-Jie received her J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from NYU School of Law. She also holds an LL.M. and LL.B. from National Chengchi University in Taiwan. She was an inaugural Global Academic Fellow at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law (2019-2020). She has had extensive experience as a research scholar at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, NYU School of Law. Prior to that, she served as a researcher and advocate for the non-governmental organization Human Rights in China. She earlier practiced in the Taipei-based international law firm Lee and Li.

Mikulas Fabry

Mikulas Fabry is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on international norms that regulate claims of, and conflicts over, legitimate statehood, government and territorial borders. He is the author of Recognizing States: International Society and the Establishment of New States since 1776 (Oxford University Press, 2010), Secession and State Creation; What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2020, with James Ker-Lindsay) multiple chapters in edited volumes, and articles in International Theory, Millennium, Diplomacy & Statecraft, German Law Journal, Ethnopolitics, Nationalities Papers, ALPPI: The Annual of Language & Politics and Politics of Identity and Global Society. His current book project charts the idea and historical practice of the norm of territorial integrity in international relations and law.

Scott Kastner

Scott L. Kastner is a Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he teaches courses on international relations, US-China relations, and East Asia.  He is author of China’s Strategic Multilateralism: Investing in Global Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2019; with Margaret Pearson and Chad Rector) and Political Conflict and Economic Interdependence across the Taiwan Strait and Beyond (Stanford University Press, 2009).  He has also published articles in journals such as International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Comparative Political Studies, and Security Studies. 

Adam Liff

Adam P. Liff is Associate Professor of East Asian International Relations at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. His research focuses on international relations and the Asia-Pacific—especially Japanese and Chinese security policy; U.S. Asia-Pacific strategy; and the rise of China. His scholarship has been published in leading China studies, Japan studies, and disciplinary journals, including China Quarterly, Japanese Studies, and International Security. Beyond IU, Dr. Liff is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Associate-in-Research at Harvard University’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Fairbank Center forChinese Studies. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Politics from Princeton University, and a B.A. from Stanford University.

Dalton Lin

Laura Phillips-Alvarez is a junior at the University of Maryland majoring in Anthropology and International Relations with a concentration in Human Rights in Latin America. Laura is Guatemalan-American and has lived all over the world in Honduras, Uganda, Tajikistan, Nicaragua, Mozambique, and came to the U.S. six years ago. She is passionate about indigenous rights and wants to work in the public health sector to reduce health care access disparities among indigenous and non-indigenous people around the world.