Andrew Latham - Defense Priorities

China, Deterrence, Diplomacy, Grand strategy, Great power competition, and The Quad

Andrew Latham

Non-Resident Fellow

Andrew Latham is a non-resident fellow at Defense Priorities and a professor of international relations and political theory at Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN.

Latham is also a regular opinion contributor at The Hill and a research associate with the Centre for Defense and Security Studies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He holds a PhD in Political Science from York University in Toronto, Canada.

Latham has served as non-proliferation, arms control, and disarmament research fellow and as a senior policy associate, both with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He has also been a lecturer at the Canadian Armed Forces School of Aerospace Studies, Winnipeg, Canada. Over the past three decades, Latham has taught courses on Chinese foreign policy, regional conflict and security, U.S. foreign and defense policy, international security, and great power competition.

Latham is currently working on a book titled China’s Grand Strategy: A History, 1950–2050, to be published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

op-edGrand strategy, Asia, Europe and Eurasia, Russia, Taiwan

Protecting undersea cables from sabotage without triggering a storm

By Andrew Latham

December 17, 2024

The undersea cable network, the unseen backbone of global communications, carries 95 percent of international data, including financial transactions, military […]

op-edGrand strategy, Global posture, Great power competition