Andrew Cheon is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Duke Kunshan University (DKU). He has an A.B. in Political Science and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) from Duke University, where he was a summa cum laude graduate, member of Phi Beta Kappa, and founding president of the student organization Duke East Asia Nexus. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations from Columbia University. His research focuses on governance, contestation, and conflict in the age of climate change and great power competition. He is currently researching global and regional leadership, resource security, and microfoundations of threat perceptions among great powers. He is the author of Fueling State Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2023) and the co-author of Activism and the Fossil Fuel Industry (Routledge, 2018). He has had papers published in reputable academic journals including Comparative Political Studies, Economics and Politics, and Journal of Conflict Resolution. His teaching interests at DKU include International Politics, Global Governance, and International Politics of East Asia. From 2015 to 2024, he was an Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C.
