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Select policy reports, journal articles, op-ed pieces, and book reviews

Think tanks and academia

Center for Strategic and International Studies (7/26/23): Spotlight – Cambodia's leadership transition

Center for Strategic and International Studies (6/29/23): Playacting Democracy in Cambodia

Center for Strategic and International Studies (6/5/23): Spotlight – Cambodia's economic outlook

Center for Strategic and International Studies (1/13/23): What's Next for Cambodia's princeling?

CSCAP Regional Outlook 2023 (12/6/22): United States: Will China let us have peace?

Council on Foreign Relations (11/16/22): How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty: A Review

Center for Strategic and International Studies (8/18/22): Hun Sen, Marcos, and the Anatomy of an American Smile

Center for Strategic and International Studies (8/1/22): Spotlight – Cambodia, Laos, and IPEF

Center for Strategic and International Studies (6/30/22): Spotlight – Laos's teetering economy

Center for Strategic and International Studies (6/14/22): Report: Clarifying the U.S. Approach to Cambodia

Center for Strategic and International Studies (4/13/22): History, Hun Sen, and Ukraine

Council on Foreign Relations (3/17/22): New Asian Disorder: A Review by Charles Dunst

Center for Strategic and International Studies (2/3/22): The costs of Hun Sen's doomed Myanmar policy

Center for Strategic and International Studies (11/4/21): What to expect of Cambodia as ASEAN chair

Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs (U.S. Air Force) (8/26/21): The Myanmar coup as an ASEAN inflection point

Council on Foreign Relations (8/25/21): A review of  Rush Doshi's "The Long Game"

Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs (U.S. Air Force) (5/20/21): Book review: "Strategy Strikes Back"

East-West Center (4/30/21): Hun Sen's mistake? The domestic political ramifications of his Chinese shelter 

Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs (U.S. Air Force) (3/23/21): Book review: "Maxwell Taylor’s Cold War"

LSE Review of Books (2/17/21): Book review: "Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy"

LSE IDEAS (2/16/21): Myanmar’s coup: A blow to democracy, a headache for China

Council on Foreign Relations (1/22/21): A review of "How China Loses"

LSE Review of Books (1/21/21): Book review: "The War on the Uyghurs"

ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute (12/17/20): Pushing back against China's digital order

Lowy Institute (5/27/20) Another pearl in China's string?

LSE IDEAS (3/25/20): Battleground Southeast Asia: China's rise and America's options

Council on Foreign Relations (12/20/18): Can Hun Sen pass power to his children?

Popular media

Barron's (8/31/23): China’s leaders could stem the economic slide. A desire for control is getting in the way.

Barron's (8/7/23): An opportunity to nudge Asia off reliance on China

Barron's (7/27/23): The U.S. could lose the global chip race without more workers

TIME (5/15/23): Immigrants are key to fighting off authoritarianism

Washington Monthly (3/23/23): Where people want a dictator

Nikkei Asia (3/21/23): ASEAN's Myanmar paralysis underlines its illiberal skew

The Wire China (2/19/23): Autocrats' bad education

Fortune (1/31/23): To regain public trust, governments need to work with the private sector

The Boston Globe (5/18/22): American hypocrisy comes back to bite us

The Boston Globe (3/23/22): COVID reveals the weakness of China's authoritarianism

Foreign Policy (12/2/21): Myanmar’s military must be shown it can’t win

Foreign Policy (9/8/21): China is OK with interfering in Guinea’s internal affairs

Foreign Policy (8/13/21): China is repeating U.S. mistakes with its own global arrogance

Nikkei Asia (4/6/21): Chinese aggression pushes Vietnam ever closer to Washington

Foreign Policy (3/4/21): Biden can engage Southeast Asia without compromising U.S. values

American Purpose (3/3/21): Show me the money

NPR (2/2/21): After Myanmar coup, U.S. must nudge military to share power with Suu Kyi

American Purpose (11/16/20): Southeast Asia's balancing act

The Boston Globe (11/9/20): Stand up for Taiwan

CNN Opinion (10/19/20): By limiting student visas, the U.S. is losing more than students

The Boston Globe (10/4/20): Expand American influence around the world, or else China will fill our shoes

The Boston Globe (9/3/20): China's leader makes it all about him, and that's dangerous

Haaretz (6/14/20): How long can Trump bully Israel to downgrade ties with China?

The Washington Post (6/2/20): Welcome to China’s new interventionist foreign policy

POLITICO Europe (5/22/20): China flexes its trade muscles

Foreign Policy (4/20/20): Beijing's propaganda is finding few takers

Slate (3/20/20): China is not the hero of the pandemic

Foreign Policy (3/10/20): Hun Sen is rewriting Cambodian history under Xi Jinping's tutelage

POLITICO Europe (2/21/20): How Brexit could undermine human rights in Cambodia

The Washington Post (2/1/20): Trump's travel ban expansion is an unexpected win—for China

Foreign Policy (12/12/19): In Cambodia, 'rule of law' means Hun Sen rules

Image: Fishermen off the coast of Kep, Cambodia (Charles Dunst)

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