Oriana Skylar Mastro

At-a-Glance

Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Courtesy Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University
Serves as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve, working at the Pentagon as Deputy Chief of Reserve China Global Strategy
Author of 'Upstart: How China Became a Great Power' (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Author of 'The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime' (Cornell University Press, 2019), which won the 2020 American Political Science Association International Security Section Best Book by an Untenured Faculty Member
Holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University and a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University

Biography

Oriana Skylar Mastro is a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Courtesy Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Her research focuses on Chinese military and security policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, war termination, and coercive diplomacy. She is also a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.