Editors:
Kai He is Professor of International Relations at Griffith University, Australia. He was also a non-resident Senior Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace (2022-2023), an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow (2017-2020), and a postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (2009-2010). He has authored or co-authored six books and edited or co-edited six volumes. Among his notable works are China’s Crisis Behavior: Political Survival and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2016) and Institutional Balancing in the Asia Pacific (Routledge 2009). His latest co-authored book, After Hedging: Hard Choices for the Indo-Pacific States between the US and China, was published in the Cambridge Elements series in International Relations in 2023.
Steve Chan is College Professor of Distinction (Emeritus) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His publications include twenty-two books and about two hundred articles and chapters. His most recent books are Culture, Economic Growth, and Interstate Power Shift: Implications for Competition between China and the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2024); Rumbles of Thunder: Power Shifts and the Danger of Sino-American War (Columbia University Press, 2023); Contesting Revisionism: China, the United States, and the Transformation of International Order (Oxford University Press, 2021; co-authored with Huiyun Feng, Kai He, and Weixing Hu); and Thucydides’s Trap? Historical Interpretation, Logic of Inquiry, and the Future of Sino-American Relations (University of Michigan Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Security Studies, and World Politics.
