James Lee

James Lee is an assistant research fellow (assistant professor) at the Institute of European and American Studies at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. In addition to his affiliations with IGCC and Academia Sinica, he is also a senior nonresident associate fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2018 and subsequently held research positions at the European University Institute in Florence and the University of California, San Diego prior to his appointment in Taiwan. He has also been a visiting scholar at the NATO Defense College, the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, and the European Resource Center on Contemporary Taiwan at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; in the fall of 2025, he will be a visiting scholar at the University of Vienna. His research interests are in U.S. foreign policy and the security of Taiwan, which he examines from an interdisciplinary perspective that incorporates political science, history, and law. His academic research has been published in EurAmerica, Business and Politics, the International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Strategic Studies, the Journal of East Asian Studies, and the Journal of Chinese Political Science; he is also a contributing author to the Oxford Handbook of Geoeconomics and Economic Statecraft. His policy analysis has been published by outlets including the NATO Defense College, IGCC, CSIS, and Global Asia.

Listen to James Lee discuss his research interests in Taiwan here:

Listen to James give a talk at the Netword for Strategic Analysis on whether war in Taiwan is inevitable: