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  • Publish Date：2022/08/01
    Modify Date：2024/09/13
James Lee
  • Position：Assistant Research Fellow
  • TEL：886-2-37897228
  • Email：jamesytlee@gate.sinica.edu.tw; JL18@alumni.princeton.edu
  • Assistant’s Name：Yi-Rong Hung
  • Assistant’s Email：aliceyrh@gate.sinica.edu.tw
James Lee

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EDUCATION

  • Princeton University, Ph.D., Department of Politics, June 2018
  • Princeton University, M.A., Department of Politics, Nov. 2014

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Assistant Research Fellow (equivalent to Assistant Professor), Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Aug. 2022 – present
  • Senior Associate Fellow, Research Division, NATO Defense College, Sep. 2024 – present
  • Eisenhower Defense Fellow, NATO Defense College, September 2023 – November 2023
  • Affiliated Researcher, UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Aug. 2019 – present
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, San Diego, Aug. 2019 – July 2022
  • Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute, Sep. 2018 – Aug. 2019

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • U.S. Grand Strategy (Europe and East Asia)
  • U.S.-Taiwan Relations
  • Geoeconomics and Economic Statecraft
  • Great Power Competition
  • Thucydides
  • NATO

ACADEMIC SERVICE

  • Collaborator, Network for Strategic Analysis (Canada) (May 2023 – present)
  • Taiwan Security Research (Senior Editor: Jan. 2017 – Oct. 2020; Assistant Editor: May 2016 – Dec. 2016)
  • Reviewer for The Pacific Review, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, International History Review, East Asia Forum, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Business and Politics, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) Journal, Journal of East Asian Studies, Canadian Journal of History, and the Japanese Journal of Political Science.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

  • Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship, European University Institute (Sep. 2018 – Aug. 2019)
  • Graduate Fellow, PIIRS, Princeton University (Sep. 2017 – June 2018)
  • Fellow, Center for International Security Studies, Princeton University (July 2017 – May 2018)
  • Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Fellowship (2015 – 2017)
  • Language study fellowship, East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University (June – Aug. 2012, June – Aug. 2013, June – Aug. 2015)
  • Language study fellowship, PIIRS, Princeton University (June – Aug. 2015)
  • Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, San Diego (2012)

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles:

  1. James Lee. “Taiwan and the ‘New Cold War.’” EurAmerica 54, no. 1 (2024): 69-116: https://doi.org/10.7015/JEAS.202403_54(1).000
     
  2. James Lee (first and corresponding author) and Richard Maher. "U.S. Economic Statecraft and Great Power Competition." Business and Politics, 24, no. 4 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1017/bap.2022.19

  3. James Lee. “Foreign Aid, Development, and U.S. Strategic Interests in the Cold War.” International Studies Quarterly, 66, no. 1 (2022): sqab090. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqab090

  4. James Lee. “US Grand Strategy and the Origins of the Developmental State.” Journal of Strategic Studies, 43, no. 5 (2020): 737-761. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2019.1579713 

  5. James Lee. “American Diplomacy and Export-Oriented Industrialization on Taiwan.” Journal of East Asian Studies, 20. no. 3 (2020): 463-483. https://doi.org/10.1017/jea.2020.9

  6. James Lee. “Did Thucydides Believe in Thucydides’ Trap? The History of the Peloponnesian War and Its Relevance to U.S.-China Relations.” Journal of Chinese Political Science, 24, no.1 (2019): 67-86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-019-09607-0

 

Chapters in Edited Volumes: 

  1. James Lee. “Alliances, Development, and State-Building in Asia.” (Forthcoming in East Asia in the World, Volume II, ed. Stephan Haggard and David Kang, Cambridge University Press) 
     
  2. James Lee (first author) and Cheng-Yi Lin, “U.S.-Taiwan Relations in an Era of Great Power Competition” (under contract for the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan, Second Edition, ed. Gunter Schubert) 

  3. James Lee. “Geoeconomics and U.S. Economic Statecraft.” In The Oxford Handbook of Geoeconomics and Economic Statecraft (2024), ed. Vinod K. Aggarwal & Tai Ming Cheung. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197673546.013.32

  4. James Lee, Thomas G. Mahnken &  Andrew W. Reddie. "Classical Strategic Theory and the Link between Economics and Security." In The Oxford Handbook of Geoeconomics and Economic Statecraft (2024), ed. Vinod K. Aggarwal & Tai Ming Cheung. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197673546.013.18 
     
  5. James Lee. "Defining Geoeconomics, Economic Statecraft, and the Political Economy of National Security." In The Oxford Handbook of Geoeconomics and Economic Statecraft (2024), ed. Vinod K. Aggarwal & Tai Ming Cheung. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197673546.013.3

 

Policy Publications (Selected):

  1. James Lee. “NATO and a Taiwan Contingency.” NATO Defense College Outlook 2 (2024). https://www.ndc.nato.int/download/downloads.php?icode=816

  2. James Lee, Ja Ian Chong, Hsin-Hsin Pan, Chien-Huei Wu, and Wen-Chin Wu. 25 October 2023. “Les risques liés à l’ambiguïté : l’opinion publique taïwanaise, la crédibilité des États-Unis et l’efficacité de la dissuasion [The Risks of Ambiguity : Taiwanese Public Opinion, US Credibility, and Effective Deterrence]” Le Rubicon. https://lerubicon.org/lopinion-publique-taiwanaise-la-credibilite-des-etatsunis-et-lefficacite-de-la-dissuasion/  

  3. James Lee. 7 November 2022. "The One-China Policy in Transition." Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. 
    https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2022/11/07/the-one-china-policy-in-transition/

  4. James Lee. "What the Taiwan Relations Act Really Means for U.S. Policy." Global Asia 17, no. 3 (2022).
    https://www.globalasia.org/v17no3/cover/what-the-taiwan-relations-act-really-means-for-us-policy_james-lee

  5. James Lee. 2021. “The One-China Policy: Adapting to Tensions in the Taiwan Strait.” UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. https://igcc.ucsd.edu/_files/news/james-lee_one-china-policy.pdf. 

  6. James Lee. 2021. “Supply chains critical to Taiwan’s security.” East Asia Forum. https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/03/10/geoeconomics-and-the-security-of-taiwan/

  7. James Lee. 2019. “The Taiwan Question in US-China Relations and Its Implications for the European Union.” Cadmus Research Repository, European University Institute. https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/62566.
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