James Lee
I am an Assistant Research Professor at the Institute of European and American Studies at Academia Sinica, the national academy of Taiwan. I am also an affiliated researcher of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) of the University of California system and a collaborator of Canada’s Network for Strategic Analysis. I received my Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University in 2018, and I have previously held research positions at the European University Institute in Florence, the University of California, San Diego, and the NATO Defense College in Rome.
My research in strategic studies is at the intersection of political science and diplomatic history, with a focus on U.S. foreign policy and the security of Taiwan. I am one of the principal investigators on the “American Portrait” project, an annual survey of public opinion in Taiwan on U.S.-Taiwan relations. My research has been published in Business and Politics, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Strategic Studies, the Journal of East Asian Studies, and the Journal of Chinese Political Science. I am also a policy analyst of U.S.-Taiwan relations, with publications in outlets such as Le Rubicon, Global Asia, the Network for Strategic Analysis, and the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. My working languages are English, Mandarin, French, Italian, and German.