Choosing Between Escalation and Defeat? | NDISC Seminar Series

Christopher P. Twomey is a tenured Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, where he focuses on Chinese foreign policy and East Asian security issues. He authored The Military Lens: Doctrinal Differences and Deterrence Failure in Sino-American Relations (Cornell, 2010) and articles in journals such as Security Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, The Washington Quarterly, and Asian Survey. He has edited two books and published chapters in a dozen others, including most recently, “China’s Nuclear Doctrine and Deterrence Concept” (Bolt and Smith, eds.), China's Strategic Arsenal: Worldview, Doctrine, and Systems (Georgetown University Press, 2021). He has consulted for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the State Department, INDOPACOM, RAND, NBR, and others. He led a track 2 diplomatic engagement with China centering on strategic issues since its inception in 2005. Dr. Twomey received his BA and Masters degrees from the University of California San Diego, his Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT, and conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard.
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Chapters:
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:02:04 - "Choosing Between Escalation and Defeat?"
0:36:52 - Question and Answer Session
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