https://www.vanjackson.org/home daily 1.0 2025-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608c753751becb2b6cbdac94/264eec06-03f7-4cf3-b5ab-4993408212eb/Rivalry+Peril+Cover+Marketing.jpg Home - Book Praise “[An] engaging book.” —Journal of Peace Research “showing with rigor and clarity that the logic of strategic competition won’t lead us to greater global security and prosperity, but to more conflict and insecurity.” —Matt Duss, executive vice president, Center for International Policy, and former foreign policy adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders “an important book that directly challenges the conventional wisdom in America’s foreign policy establishment.” —David C. Kang, University of Southern California “powerful book…You won’t look at U.S.-China rivalry the same way again.” —Stephen Wertheim, author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608c753751becb2b6cbdac94/d0b6abe6-decf-49c8-9256-1b4b364cf972/2023+profile+torso.jpg Home Welcome! People find their way here for different reasons. Academic: By day, I’m an American scholar of international relations. I specialize in the class politics of geopolitics, with a particular emphasis on East Asian and Pacific international relations and US foreign policy. I’ve written five books, the first two with Cambridge University Press, about US-North Korea relations. My third book—Pacific Power Paradox—which examines America’s paradoxical role in sustaining, threatening, and ultimately embrittling the “Asian peace” since 1979, came out in January 2023 with Yale University Press. My fourth book, Grand Strategies of the Left, came out in December the same year. And my fifth book, just out with Yale University Press, is The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy (with Michael Brenes). Public Intellectual: Current Affairs magazine described me as “a dissident among foreign policy intellectuals”—I love it. By night, I do a lot of pundit stuff; I try to be a public conscience. If you want to hear me sound off, about all things foreign policy, I have a regular newsletter, I’m an occasional writer for the Duck of Minerva, and host The Un-Diplomatic Podcast, which Apple Podcasts listed as one of the “Top Podcasts in Politics” for 2019. I also co-host the Bang-Bang Podcast—a show about war movies, with an anti-imperial twist. Student/Career Advice: See the Advice for Students section of this site, which is not only for students. 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Vigorous, wise, and highly informed, ‘On the Brink’ decodes the theatrics and leaves the lesson inescapably clear for future generations.” —Evan Osnos, The New Yorker "Van Jackson has written an insightful, detailed, and frightening history of the Korean nuclear crisis. It is like a thriller with the sequel yet to be written." —Scott Sagan, Stanford University Professor and author, The Limits of Safety https://www.vanjackson.org/research daily 0.75 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608c753751becb2b6cbdac94/1620102079317-J266ZNV1B7YRAOSD6I6E/Photoshoot+2018+5.jpg Research https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608c753751becb2b6cbdac94/1619986244723-WVSSCD1GTIHBBPZHCJVQ/On+the+Brink+Book+Launch.jpg Research - Book Praise “Van Jackson has given us a vital record of a near-disaster. Vigorous, wise, and highly informed, ‘On the Brink’ decodes the theatrics and leaves the lesson inescapably clear for future generations.” —Evan Osnos, The New Yorker "Van Jackson has written an insightful, detailed, and frightening history of the Korean nuclear crisis. It is like a thriller with the sequel yet to be written." —Scott Sagan, Stanford University Professor and author, The Limits of Safety https://www.vanjackson.org/podcast-1 daily 0.75 2025-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608c753751becb2b6cbdac94/fb2b7c1a-950c-41e1-9b05-4d59c0a1f853/Bang+Bang+logo+trippy+version.jpg Podcast - Bang-Bang I’m co-host of a new show about war movies, with an anti-imperial twist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608c753751becb2b6cbdac94/174143b7-f071-4a77-b977-81dc49f28a41/square+podcast+cover.png Podcast - The Un-Diplomatic Podcast I’ve been hosting The Un-Diplomatic Podcast since 2019—a variety show discussing foreign policy, international relations, progressive politics, and occasionally hip-hop. https://www.vanjackson.org/multimedia daily 0.75 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608c753751becb2b6cbdac94/3d4a336d-278f-45a4-82f0-8046b6ae7385/Screenshot+2023-04-07+at+6.04.59+AM.png Multimedia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608c753751becb2b6cbdac94/e1a19f9c-379e-400e-81a8-1b1380f2023c/Screenshot+2023-01-28+at+12.20.31+PM.png Multimedia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608c753751becb2b6cbdac94/03e6f371-6b7b-443d-801c-c18e73f3f9ad/Screenshot+2023-02-16+at+2.54.02+PM.png Multimedia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608c753751becb2b6cbdac94/1623291471273-IEI2K42ZR7AM6D667G0Z/Screen+Shot+2021-06-10+at+2.17.06+PM.png Multimedia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608c753751becb2b6cbdac94/1621632224285-ZCXW7ZFE4D7K8KLLE9HG/EakRA0qWsAA-VAL.jpg Multimedia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608c753751becb2b6cbdac94/1623291850290-XE43HL4ICE48FF7LK6RK/NPR.jpg Multimedia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vanjackson.org/teaching daily 0.75 2025-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608c753751becb2b6cbdac94/f7777a85-7b4d-4305-9d91-f233249e090c/IMG_9652.JPG Teaching - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608c753751becb2b6cbdac94/b44233cf-ac5b-4633-a268-e061159b0f45/image4.jpg Teaching - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/608c753751becb2b6cbdac94/ff4ed6f5-560a-48b5-b3f8-21d412bcf697/Screenshot+2024-09-12+at+7.12.58%E2%80%AFPM.png Teaching - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vanjackson.org/advice-for-students daily 0.75 2026-01-30