Sheena Greitens

Sheena Chestnut Greitens is an associate professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where she directs UT’s Asia Policy Program and serves as editor-in-chief of the Texas National Security Review. Her research focuses on national and international security, authoritarian politics and foreign policy, and East Asia, and she is currently finishing her third book manuscript, which addresses how regime security concerns shape Chinese grand strategy and global security outreach.

Chestnut Greitens is currently serving as Visiting Associate Professor of Research in Indo-Pacific Security at the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute (China Landpower Studies Center), and is a nonresident scholar with the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is the author of Dictators and Their Secret Police (Cambridge, 2016) and Politics of the North Korean Diaspora (Cambridge, 2023). She was previously an assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri (2015-2020).