Yvonne Chiu

Yvonne Chiu will join the faculty in January 2027 as a Professor of Political Theory and Strategic Studies.  She writes on just war theory and international ethics, strategy and military affairs, and authoritarianism.

Her book, Conspiring with the Enemy:  The Ethic of Cooperation in Warfare, won the International Studies Association–International Ethics Section Book Award (2021) and the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award (2020).  She is currently writing a manuscript on models of authoritarianism in East Asia.

She is a Professor of Strategy & Policy at the U.S. Naval War College and a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (Washington, DC), and serves on the board of the International Society for Military Ethics.

She is a co-principal investigator for multiple Department of Defense-sponsored research projects in support of the Department of Defense, the Department of the Navy, and the USINDOPACOM AOR policy, planning, and operational modeling.  For this work, she received the U.S. Naval War College Faculty Research Excellence Award (2025) and a Navy Civilian Service Commendation Medal (2024).

She has been a National Fellow at Hoover Institution, Member of Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), an assistant professor at University of Hong Kong, and a postdoctoral fellow at Political Theory Project (Brown University).

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science, University of California at Berkeley
• M.A., Political Science, University of California at Berkeley
• A.B., International Relations, Stanford University