Joshua Kurlantzick
Council on Foreign Relations
Joshua Kurlantzick is senior fellow for Southeast Asia and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is the author, most recently, of Beijing’s Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign To Influence Asia and the World and he is currently working on a new book, supported by the Sarah Scaife Foundation, about the growing global ties among illiberal states and their impacts on the world. He also is currently examining the militarization of politics in Asia and around the world, China’s relations with Southeast Asia and other developing regions, China’s influence and information efforts, U.S.-China relations, the rise of global populism and populism in Asia, global democratic regression, and South and Southeast Asian politics and economics on a day-to-day basis.
Kurlantzick was previously a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he studied Southeast Asian politics and economics and China’s relations with Southeast Asia, including Chinese investment, aid, and diplomacy. Previously, he was a fellow at the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy and a fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy.
