- Associate Professor of Political Science and member of Security Studies Program at MIT
- An expert on Asian policy studies and international defense
- Rhodes Scholar
- Associate Professor of Political Science and member of Security Studies Program at MIT
- An expert on Asian policy studies and international defense
- Rhodes Scholar
Taylor FRAVEL is an Associate Professor of Political Science and member of the Security Studies Program at MIT. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, a Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, a Fellow with the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also has graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In March 2010, he was named Research Associate with the National Asia Research Program launched by the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center. Taylor is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University, where he received his PhD.
Taylor studies international relations, with a focus on international security, China, and East Asia. He is the author of several full length publications and is currently completing a book-length study of major change in China’s military doctrine since 1949, entitled Active Defense: Explaining the Evolution of China’s Military (under advanced contract with Princeton University Press). He is also studying the relationship between material capabilities and political influence in China’s rise as a great power. His research has been supported by various organizations, including the National Science Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, and the Smith Richardson Foundation.
