Jeffrey Reeves
Associate Professor College of Distance Education
Biography
Dr. Jeffrey Reeves is an Associate Professor of National Security at the Naval War College, Naval Postgraduate School, specializing in great power competition, military strategy, and Indo-Pacific security. His work focuses on China’s military modernization, Southeast Asian geopolitics, and U.S. force posture. He has advised senior military leaders on geopolitical risk, warfighting strategy, and deterrence. Previously, he was Director of Asian Studies at the U.S. Army War College and worked with the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. Dr. Reeves holds a Ph.D. from LSE and a Master’s in Chinese Studies from Edinburgh.
Contact Information
Areas of Expertise
- Asia-Pacific
- China
- Cold War
- Diplomacy
- Economics
- Foreign Policy
- Geopolitics
- International Relations
- Southeast Asia
Professional Highlights
Director, Asian Studies with the US Army War College
Professor, Security Studies, Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Director, Culture and Conflict Studies, Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS)
Education
Ph.D., London School of Economics, International Relations
M.A., University of Edinburgh, Chinese Studies
B.A., University of Oregon, English Literature
Related Credentials
Professional Certification, Cybersecurity
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022
Sustainable Finance
Cambridge University, 2021
Advanced Project Management Certification
Stanford University, 2017
Certificate in Terrorism Studies
University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK, 2013
Research Contributions and Publications
Books
Follow the Leader, Lose the Region: Critical Theory and Canadian Foreign Policy in Asia
UBC Press, July 2023
Sino-Japanese Competition and the East Asian Security Complex: Vying for Influence
Co-authored with Kerry Lynn Nankivell, and Jeffrey Hornung
Routledge, 2017
Chinese Foreign Relations with Weak Peripheral States: Asymmetrical economic power and insecurity
London: Routledge, 2015
Non-traditional security in East Asia: A regime approach
Co-authored with Ramon Pacheco-Pardo
London: Imperial College Press, 2015
Monographs (selected)
A Canadian Arctic Policy for the Indo-Pacific
Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Vancouver, 2021
Canada and the ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’: The Perils of Imitation and Pitfalls of Alignment
Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Vancouver, 2020
Canada as a 21st Century Pacific Power: Toward ‘Broad Diversification’
In Asia Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Vancouver, 2019
Drafted for the Canadian Prime Minister’s Office
The Indo-Asia-Pacific’s Maritime Future: A Practical Assessment of the State of Asian Seas
Co-authored with Kerry Lynn Nankivell
King’s College, London Policy Institute, London, 2017
Peer review articles
‘Bidenomics in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Implications'
Washington Quarterly, April 2024
‘Western De-Linking from China poses Risks for Southeast Asia’
Global Asia, September 2023, Vol. 18, No. 3
‘Insularism Leads to a Lost Opportunity for Canada in the Arctic andAsia’
Asia Policy, January 2023
‘Canada and the Free and Open Indo-Pacific: A Dissenting View’
Asia Policy, October 2020
‘Imperialism and the Middle Kingdom: The Xi Jinpingadministration's peripheral diplomacy with developing states,’
Third World Quarterly,2018
‘China’s Silk Road Economic Belt Initiative: Network and Influence Formation in Central Asia’
Journal of Contemporary China, 2018
‘Mongolia’s Place in China’s Peripheral Diplomacy’
Asan Forum, April 2016
‘Economic Statecraft, Structural Power, and Structural Violence in Sino-Kyrgyz Relations’
Asian Security, August 2015
‘Ideas and Influence: Scholarship as a Harbinger of Counter- Terrorism Institutions, Policies, and Laws in the People’s Republic of China’
Terrorism and Political Violence, Sept. 2014
‘A Search for Causality: China’s Non-traditional Security and State Weakness’
European Journal of East Asian Studies 13:1, 2014
‘Rethinking Weak State Foreign Policy Behaviour: Mongolia’s Foreign Policy toward China’
International Politics 51, May 2014
‘Weak Power bargaining with China: Mongolia and North Korea in comparative perspective’
Co-authored with Ramon Pacheco-Pardo
Journal of Contemporary China, April 2014
‘Structural Power, the Copenhagen School, and Threats to ChineseSecurity’
The China Quarterly, March 2014
‘China’s Unraveling Engagement Strategy’
The Washington Quarterly 36(4): 2013
‘Parsing China’s Power: Sino-Mongolian and Sino-DPRK Relations in Comparative Perspective’
Co-authored with Ramon Pacheco-Pardo
International Relations of the Asia Pacific, 2013
‘Sino-Mongolian Relations and Mongolia’s Non-Traditional Security'
Central Asian Survey: 2013
‘China’s Self-Defeating Tactics in Nepal’
Contemporary South Asia20(4): 2012
‘Mongolia’s Evolving Security Strategy: Omni-Enmeshment and Balance of Influence’
Pacific Review 26(1): 2013
‘Resources, Sovereignty, and Governance: Can Mongolia Avoid the“Resource Curse”?’
Asian Journal of Political Science, 19(2): 2011
‘Mongolia’s Environmental Security: Chinese Unconscious Power andUlaanbaatar’s State Weakness’
Asian Survey 51(3): 2011
Book Chapters
‘China’s Silk Road Economic Belt Initiative: Network and Influence Formation in Central Asia’
In Zhao Suisheng ed. China’s New Global Strategy The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Volume I, 1st Edition
London: Routledge, 2019
‘Framing Sino-Japan competition: drivers and responses across the military, economic, and diplomatic sectors'
In Jeffrey Reeves, Kerry Lynn Nankivell, and Jeffrey Hornung eds. Vying for influence: Chinese-Japanese Competition and the East Asian Security Complex
London: Routledge, 2017
‘Sino-Japanese Competition in East Asia’s Emerging Security Complex’
In Jeffrey Reeves, Kerry Lynn Nankivell, and Jeffrey Hornung eds. Vying for influence: Chinese-Japanese Competition and the East Asian Security Complex
London: Routledge, 2017
‘Following the Silk Roads: Origins, Intentions, and Security Implications ofthe Xi Administration’s Belt and Road Initiative’
In Andrew Scobell, Sumit Ganguly, and Joseph Liow eds. Routledge Handbook of Asian Security
London: Routledge, 2017
‘US Perspectives on China’
In Andrew Tan ed. Handbook on US-China Relations
London: Edward Elgar, 2016
‘Transnational Organized Crime in Asia: Norms, Principles, and Regimes’
In Jeffrey Reeves and Ramon Pacheco-Pardo eds. East Asian Security: Traditional and Non-traditional Issues
Singpapore: World Scientific, 2014
‘Middle Powers in the Asia-Pacific’
In Bruce Gilley ed. Middle Powers and International Relations
Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014
External Memberships and Associations
Honorary Research Associate
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia
Fellow
Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies, Simon Fraser University
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