Jessica Chen Weiss

  • Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies at Cornell University
  • Senior Fellow at Asia Society Policy Institute, Center for China Analysis
  • Author of 'Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations

Jessica Chen Weiss is the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies in the Department of Government at Cornell University. From August 2021 to July 2022, she served as senior advisor to the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department on a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars (IAF-TIRS). Weiss is the author of Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations (Oxford University Press, 2014). Her research appears in International OrganizationChina Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict ResolutionSecurity StudiesJournal of Contemporary China, and Review of International Political Economy. 

With commentary in the New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Times, and the Ezra Klein show, Weiss was profiled by the New Yorker and named one of Prospect Magazine's "Top Thinkers for 2024." Weiss was previously an assistant professor at Yale University and founded FACES, the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford University. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, she received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.  

 

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Past Hosts Include:
  • The Aspen Institute
  • Capital Group
  • Warburg Pincus
  • KraneShares
  • OECD
  • European External Action Service
  • National University of Singapore
  • Reed College
  • Yale University
  • Sidwell Friends School
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Public Lecture with Professor Jessica Chen Weiss: A World Safe for Autocracy? | Social Science at the University of Copenhagen - Get Sharable Link
Talks & Conversations with Jessica Chen Weiss

US-China Relations: Where We’ve Come and Where We’re Going

Domestic Politics of China’s Foreign Policy and International Ambitions

Renewing American Leadership and Competitiveness in a Changing World

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Biography

Jessica Chen Weiss is the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies in the Department of Government at Cornell University. From August 2021 to July 2022, she served as senior advisor to the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department on a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars (IAF-TIRS). Weiss is the author of Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations (Oxford University Press, 2014). Her research appears in International OrganizationChina Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict ResolutionSecurity StudiesJournal of Contemporary China, and Review of International Political Economy. 

With commentary in the New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Times, and the Ezra Klein show, Weiss was profiled by the New Yorker and named one of Prospect Magazine's "Top Thinkers for 2024." Weiss was previously an assistant professor at Yale University and founded FACES, the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford University. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, she received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.