Sheena Chestnut Greitens

Sheena Chestnut Greitens is a senior fellow at the Civitas Institute. She is also an associate professor in the L.B.J. School of Public Affairs, and directs UT’s Asia Policy Program, a joint initiative of the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law. In 2022, she was a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Greitens’s teaching and research focus is on American national security, East Asia, and the politics of democracy and dictatorship. Her books include, Politics of the North Korean Diaspora (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Her current book projects focus on authoritarianism and diaspora politics in North Korea, and on internal security as a driver of Chinese grand strategy. She completed her Ph.D. in government at Harvard University.

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