Dr. Shuxian Luo is a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is on leave from her position as an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Luo’s research interests include China’s foreign and security policies, maritime security in the Indo-Pacific, and U.S.-China relations, especially crisis management. While at CFR, she is working on a project that explains what drives China’s approach toward North Korea’s nuclear weapons program in the post–Cold War era, and why Beijing is open or resistant to multilateral negotiations.

Luo formerly held appointments as a China fellow at the Wilson Center, an assistant professor (tenure-track) at the U.S. Naval War College, a Hans J. Morgenthau fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and an adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She holds a PhD in international affairs from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.