Aaron Friedberg

Aaron Friedberg is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he is also co-director of the Woodrow Wilson School’s Center for International Security Studies. From June 2003 to June 2005 he served as Deputy Assistant for National Security in the Office of the Vice President. Friedberg has written widely on issues of strategic planning, power transition, and the rise of China. His books include The Weary Titan: Britain and The Experience of Relative Decline, 1895–1905 (Princeton University Press, 1988), In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America’s Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy (Princeton University Press, 2000), A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011), and Beyond Air-Sea Battle: The Debate Over US Military Strategy in Asia (Routledge, 2014). Friedberg received his A.B. and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is a member of the editorial boards of Joint Forces Quarterly and The Journal of Strategic Studies and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Selected Writing and Appearances

Articles

• October 2021, Proceedings (US Naval Institute): “What’s At Stake In The Indo-Pacific”link
• October 2020, Foreign Policy: “Beware the China Reset”link
• October 2020, Foreign Affairs: “An Answer to Aggression: How to Push Back Against Beijing”link
• October 2020, Foreign Affairs: “Reply to ‘The Overreach of the China Hawks'”link
• May 2020, Foreign Policy: “The United States Needs to Reshape Global Supply Chains”link
• May 2020, The National Bureau of Asian Research: “A Clarifying Moment: The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Future of the U.S.-China Rivalry”link
• March 2020, The Washington Quarterly: “Partial Disengagement: A New US Strategy for Economic Competition with China”link
• November 2019, The National Bureau of Asian Research: “Partial Disengagement: A New U.S. Strategy for Economic Competition with China”link
• June 2018, Foreign Affairs: “Did America Get China Wrong?: The Engagement Debate”link
• June 2018, Survival: “Competing with China”link
• January 2018, Foreign Policy: “China’s Understanding of Global Order Shouldn’t be Ours”link
• January 2018, Survival: “Globalisation and Chinese Grand Strategy”link
• August 2017, The National Bureau of Asian Research: “The North Korean Crisis and the Second Nuclear Age”link
• August 2015, Wall Street Journal: “A U.S. ‘Solarium Project’ for China”link
• May 2015, Survival: “The Debate Over US China Strategy”link
• January 2015, The Washington Quarterly: “The Sources of Chinese Conduct: Explaining Beijing’s Assertiveness”link
• December 2014, The National Bureau of Asian Research: “Approaching Critical Mass: Asia’s Multipolar Nuclear Future”link
• August 2012, Foreign Affairs: “Bucking Beijing: An Alternative U.S. China Policy”link
• July 2012, The National Bureau of Asian Research: “Turning to the Pacific: U.S. Strategic Rebalancing toward Asia”link
• July 2011, The New Republic: “The Unrealistic Realist (review of ‘On China’ by Henry Kissinger)”link
• July 2011, Foreign Policy: “In U.S.-China relations, ideology matters”link
• April 2009, Foreign Policy: “Grading Obama’s first 100 days”link
• January 2009, The National Bureau of Asian Research: “Advising the New U.S. President”link
• July 2007, Foreign Affairs: “The Long Haul: Fighting and Funding America’s Next Wars”link
• November 2000, Commentary: “The Struggle for Mastery in Asia”link

Books

• May 2022: “Getting China Wrong”link
• August 2017: “The Authoritarian Challenge: China, Russia and the Threat to the Liberal International Order”link
• October 2015 chapter for “Choosing to Lead: American Foreign Policy for a Disordered World”link
• May 2014: “Beyond Air–Sea Battle: The Debate Over US Military Strategy in Asia”link
• September 2010: “The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895-1905”link
• March 2000: “In the Shadow of the Garrison State”link

Events

• September 2021 Conversations with Bill Kristol discussion: “Afghanistan and US-China Relations, China’s Ambitions, and How to Compete with China”link
• October 2019 Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard lecture: “The Rise of China and the Strategic Threat to the US”link
• January 2012 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore lecture: “A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia”link
• April 2011 German Marshall Fund of the United States interview: “China’s rise makes U.S. more relevant in Asia”link

Testimony

• May 2019 testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee: “Smart Competition: Adapting U.S. Strategy Toward China at 40 Years”link
• February 2018 testimony before the House Armed Services Committee: “Strategic Competition With China”link
• June 2014 testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: “The Future of U.S.-China Relations”written testimony