{{Short description|American political scientist}} {{Infobox person | name = Rush Doshi | other_names = 杜如松 (Dù Rú-sōng) | education = Harvard University (PhD), Princeton University (BA) | occupation = Political scientist | employer = Georgetown University, Council on Foreign Relations | website = https://www.rushdoshi.com }}

'''Rush Doshi''' is an American political scientist currently serving as an assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.<ref>{{Cite web |last=DeFosse |first=Jenna |date=2024-03-20 |title=Security Studies Program welcomes Rush Doshi to Faculty |url=https://css.georgetown.edu/2024/03/20/security-studies-program-welcomes-rush-doshi-to-faculty/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=CSS |language=en-US}}</ref> He is also senior fellow for China and director of the Initiative on China Strategy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rush Doshi |url=https://www.cfr.org/expert/rush-doshi |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=Council on Foreign Relations |language=en}}</ref> He served at the White House National Security Council (NSC) in the Biden administration as Director and later Deputy Senior Director for China and Taiwan from 2021 to March 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biden's China Team |url=https://www.thewirechina.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/March-19_Bidens-China-Team.pdf |access-date=June 16, 2023 |website=The Wire China}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Allen-Ebrahimian |first=Bethany |date=February 2, 2021 |title=Biden's whole-of-National Security Council strategy |url=https://www.axios.com/2021/02/02/bidens-whole-of-national-security-council-strategy |access-date=June 16, 2023 |website=Axios}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Fabens |first=Mac |date=2023-04-03 |title=Biden's China Team: Who is Rush Doshi? |url=https://uscnpm.org/2023/04/03/bidens-china-team-who-is-rush-doshi/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230616235345/https://uscnpm.org/2023/04/03/bidens-china-team-who-is-rush-doshi/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2023-06-16 |access-date=2023-06-16 |website=U.S.-China Perception Monitor |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Education == Doshi graduated with an A.B. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in 2011 after completing a 142-page-long senior thesis, titled "China's Strategic Liberalism: Institutional Participation Under the Shadow of American Power," under the supervision of Robert Keohane.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Doshi |first=Rushabh |date=2011 |title=China's Strategic Liberalism: Institutional Participation Under the Shadow of American Power |url=https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp01td96k319r}}</ref> He later received a Ph.D. in political science and government from Harvard University.<ref name=":0" /> His dissertation, published in 2018, was titled "The Long Game: Chinese Grand Strategy After the Cold War."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Doshi |first=Rush |title=The Long Game: Chinese Grand Strategy After the Cold War |url=https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/41121327 |access-date=February 10, 2024 |website=Harvard Library}}</ref> It served as the basis of his 2021 book titled "The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order."<ref name=":2" /> Stephen P. Rosen was his dissertation committee chair.<ref name=":1" />

== Career == Prior to joining the Biden administration, Doshi was founding director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Brookings Institution<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rush Doshi |url=https://www.brookings.edu/author/rush-doshi/ |access-date=2023-06-16 |website=Brookings |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Brookings Foreign Policy experts selected to join Biden administration in leadership roles |url=https://www.brookings.edu/news/brookings-foreign-policy-experts-selected-to-join-biden-administration-in-leadership-roles/ |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=Brookings |language=en-US}}</ref> and an adjunct senior fellow in the Asia-Pacific security program at the Center for a New American Security.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rush Doshi |url=https://www.cnas.org/people/rush-doshi |access-date=2024-02-10 |website=www.cnas.org |language=en}}</ref> He was a 2020 China Fellow at the Wilson Center.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wilson China Fellows |url=https://www.wilsoncenter.org/wilson-china-fellows |access-date=2024-07-22 |website=www.wilsoncenter.org |language=en}}</ref>

Doshi left the NSC in March 2024 and joined CFR as the C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia Studies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CFR Welcomes Sue Mi Terry and Rush Doshi as Asia Fellows {{!}} Council on Foreign Relations |url=https://www.cfr.org/news-releases/cfr-welcomes-sue-mi-terry-and-rush-doshi-asia-fellows |access-date=2024-08-04 |website=www.cfr.org |language=en}}</ref> In June 2024, Doshi was named as the head of CFR's new China Strategy Initiative.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CFR Launches Ambitious New China Strategy Initiative {{!}} Council on Foreign Relations |url=https://www.cfr.org/news-releases/cfr-launches-ambitious-new-china-strategy-initiative |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=www.cfr.org |language=en}}</ref>

== Select publications ==

=== Books ===

* "The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order," ''Oxford University Press'', June 11, 2021.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2021-08-02 |title=The long game: China's grand strategy to displace American order |url=https://www.brookings.edu/essay/the-long-game-chinas-grand-strategy-to-displace-american-order/ |access-date=2023-06-16 |website=Brookings |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A Review of Rush Doshi's "The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order" |url=https://www.cfr.org/blog/review-rush-doshis-long-game-chinas-grand-strategy-displace-american-order |access-date=2023-06-16 |website=Council on Foreign Relations |language=en}}</ref> (received the 2021 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award from Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Security Studies)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Furniss Book Award for 2021 goes to The Long Game by Rush Doshi {{!}} Mershon Center |url=https://mershoncenter.osu.edu/news/furniss-book-award-2021-goes-long-game-rush-doshi |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=mershoncenter.osu.edu |language=en}}</ref>

=== Reports ===

* China as a ‘cyber great power’: Beijing's two voices in telecommunications, ''Brookings Institution'', April 2021 (co-authored with Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic, and John Ferguson)<ref>{{Cite web |title=China as a 'cyber great power': Beijing's two voices in telecommunications |url=https://www.brookings.edu/articles/china-as-a-cyber-great-power-beijings-two-voices-in-telecommunications/ |access-date=2024-02-10 |website=Brookings |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Articles === * [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/opinion/trump-china-xi-trade.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20251120&instance_id=166785&nl=today%27s-headlines&regi_id=64114475&segment_id=210959&user_id=c9192861236050817a36c06fc3beedf3 The Moment China Proved It Was America’s Equal], NYTimes, Nov 19, 2025 * The Biden Plan (in What Does America Want From China?), ''Foreign Affairs'', May 30, 2024<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-05-30 |title=What Does America Want From China? |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/responses/what-does-america-want-china |access-date=2024-05-30 |work=Foreign Affairs |language=en-US |issn=0015-7120}}</ref> * The Chinese Communist Party Has Always Been Nationalist, ''Foreign Policy'', July 1, 2021<ref>{{Cite web |last=Doshi |first=Rush |date=2024-02-22 |title=The Chinese Communist Party Has Always Been Nationalist |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/01/chinese-communist-party-nationalist-centennial/ |access-date=2024-02-13 |website=Foreign Policy |language=en-US}}</ref> * "How America Can Shore Up Asian Order," ''Foreign Affairs'', January 12, 2021 (co-authored with Kurt M. Campbell).<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=Kurt M. |last2=Doshi |first2=Rush |date=2021-01-12 |title=How America Can Shore Up Asian Order |language=en-US |work=Foreign Affairs |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-01-12/how-america-can-shore-asian-order |access-date=2023-06-16 |issn=0015-7120}}</ref> * The China Challenge Can Help America Avert Decline, ''Foreign Affairs'', December 3, 2020 (co-authored with Kurt M. Campbell)<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=Kurt M. |last2=Doshi |first2=Rush |date=2020-12-03 |title=The China Challenge Can Help America Avert Decline |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2020-12-03/china-challenge-can-help-america-avert-decline |access-date=2024-02-10 |work=Foreign Affairs |language=en-US |issn=0015-7120}}</ref> * Beijing Believes Trump Is Accelerating American Decline, ''Foreign Policy'', October 12, 2020<ref>{{Cite web |last=Doshi |first=Rush |date=2024-02-22 |title=Beijing Believes Trump Is Accelerating American Decline |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/12/china-trump-accelerating-american-decline/ |access-date=2024-02-13 |website=Foreign Policy |language=en-US}}</ref> * The Coronavirus Could Reshape Global Order, ''Foreign Affairs'', March 18, 2020 (co-authored with Kurt M. Campbell)<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=Kurt M. |last2=Doshi |first2=Rush |date=2020-03-18 |title=The Coronavirus Could Reshape Global Order |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2020-03-18/coronavirus-could-reshape-global-order |access-date=2024-02-10 |work=Foreign Affairs |language=en-US |issn=0015-7120}}</ref> * China Steps Up Its Information War in Taiwan, ''Foreign Affairs'', January 9, 2020<ref>{{Cite news |last=Doshi |first=Rush |date=2020-01-09 |title=China Steps Up Its Information War in Taiwan |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2020-01-09/china-steps-its-information-war-taiwan |access-date=2024-02-10 |work=Foreign Affairs |language=en-US |issn=0015-7120}}</ref> * "Beyond the San Hai: The Challenge of China’s Blue-Water Navy," ''Center for a New American Security'', May 15, 2017 (co-authored with Patrick M. Cronin, Mira Rapp-Hooper, Harry Krejsa, and Alexander Sullivan).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Beyond the San Hai |url=https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/beyond-the-san-hai |access-date=2023-08-06 |website=www.cnas.org |language=en}}</ref>

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