Yvonne Chiu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor College of Distance Education
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Biography

Yvonne Chiu writes on just war theory, international ethics, comparative political thought and authoritarianism. Her book “Conspiring with the Enemy: The Ethic of Cooperation in Warfare” won the International Studies Association – International Ethics Section Book Award 2021 and the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award 2019. She has been a national fellow at the Hoover Institution, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley - School of Public Policy, a professor at the University of Hong Kong and a postdoctoral fellow at the Political Theory Project (Brown University).

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Areas of Expertise

  • Asia-Pacific
  • Civil-Military Relations
  • Ethics
  • Geopolitics

Professional Highlights

2020

National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

2013

Member, Institute for Advanced Study

2010

Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, University of Hong Kong

2008

Post-doctoral Fellow, Political Theory Project, Brown University

Education

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

M.A., University of California at Berkeley

A.B., Stanford University

Research Contributions and Publications

Iron Fist, Silk Glove: The Evolution of Soft Authoritarianism in Hong Kong and East Asia
(project under contract, Yale University Press)

Conspiring with the Enemy: The Ethic of Cooperation in Warfare
(Columbia University Press, 2019)

"Liberal Lustration," The Journal of Political Philosophy 19(4), 2011

Awards and Decorations

Choice (Association of College and Research Libraries) - Outstanding Academic Title
2021

International Studies Association (ISA) – International Ethics Section Book Award
2021

North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP) Book Award
2019

External Memberships and Associations

Naval War College Review
Editorial Board

International Society for Military Ethics
Treasurer

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