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# Joshua Shifrinson 

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Joshua Shifrinson is a non-resident senior fellow at the Cato Institute and an associate professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. His expertise includes U.S. foreign policy, great power politics, international security, and diplomatic history. His current research examines the impact of domestic and international change – especially China’s rise and Russia’s belligerence – on U.S. grand strategy, and U.S. security policy in Europe and Asia.

Shifrinson has published extensively on international security policy, U.S.-Chinese relations, NATO enlargement, U.S.-Russian relations, and nuclear policy. He is the author of *[Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts](https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Titans-Falling-Giants-Security/dp/150172505X)* (Cornell University Press, 2018). His work also has appeared in *International Security*, the *Journal of Strategic Studies*, *International Politics*, *Strategic Studies Quarterly*, *The Washington Quarterly*, *Foreign Affairs*, *Politico*, and *War on the Rocks*, among other venues.

Shifrinson received his BA from Brandeis University in History and Politics, and his doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has previously held fellowships with the Belfer Center, the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University, the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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