RSI Connect: Comparing Russian & Chinese Theories of Victory

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Oriana Skylar Mastro
Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Stanford University

Oriana Skylar Mastro is a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University where her research focuses on Chinese military and security policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, war termination, and coercive diplomacy. She is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. She continues to serve in the United States Air Force Reserve for which she works as a strategic planner at INDOPACOM. For her contributions to U.S. strategy in Asia, she won the Individual Reservist of the Year Award in 2016. She has published widely, including in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, International Security, International Studies Review, Journal of Strategic Studies, The Washington Quarterly, The National Interest, Survival, and Asian Security. Her book, The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime, (Cornell University Press, 2019) won the 2020 American Political Science Association International Security Section Best Book by an Untenured Faculty Member. She holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. Her publications and other commentary can be found on twitter @osmastro and www.orianaskylarmastro.com.

Andrew Monaghan
George F Kennan Fellow, Kennan Institute
Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI
Non-Resident Associate Fellow, NATO Defense College

Andrew Monaghan is a George F Kennan Fellow at the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute. He is also a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London, and a Non-Resident Associate Fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. Since 2006, Dr. Monaghan has served as the Director of the Russian Research Network Limited. He has held positions at Oxford University, at NATO, and at the Chatham House think tank in London. He has written extensively on Russian grand strategy, Russian domestic politics and the Russian way in war, and he is the author of several books, including Dealing with the Russians (2019). His latest, Russian Grand Strategy in an Era of Global Power Competition, is just published.