Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies
Sheena Chestnut Greitens is a nonresident senior fellow with the Center for East Asia Policy Studies. She is also an assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri, and an associate in research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. Her work focuses on East Asia, security studies, and the internal politics of authoritarian regimes. Her book "Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence," will be published in summer 2016 by Cambridge University Press.
Greitens’ work on China and North Korea has been published widely in academic, policy, and media outlets in English, Chinese, and Korean. She has previously held positions at the U.S. Department of State’s Policy Planning Staff, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and Oxford University Press, and fellowships at the U.S. Institute of Peace, the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
She holds a doctorate from Harvard University; a master's from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar; and a bachelor’s from Stanford University.
Sheena Chestnut Greitens is a nonresident senior fellow with the Center for East Asia Policy Studies. She is also an assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri, and an associate in research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. Her work focuses on East Asia, security studies, and the internal politics of authoritarian regimes. Her book “Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence,” will be published in summer 2016 by Cambridge University Press.
Greitens’ work on China and North Korea has been published widely in academic, policy, and media outlets in English, Chinese, and Korean. She has previously held positions at the U.S. Department of State’s Policy Planning Staff, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and Oxford University Press, and fellowships at the U.S. Institute of Peace, the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
She holds a doctorate from Harvard University; a master’s from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar; and a bachelor’s from Stanford University.
A [North Korean ballistic missile] test like this serves all three purposes [enhancing its long-range strike capability, gauging a U.S. response, and commemorating the late Kim Jong-il’s birthday] at once.
"[T]he best U.S.-Philippines alliance would be one where the benefits are clearly recognized by the public and the citizens of both countries. [Duterte's transition from local mayor to president and international figure has brought about a] change in the consequences of rhetoric. That shift has been rocky in terms of the effects on U.S.-Philippines relations."
“I think it’s by having this cluster of [illicit] activities and abilities that has helped [North Korea] as sanctions have been applied. With the newest round of sanctions, my guess is that they’re doing the same thing: looking for ways to navigate around them.”