Van Jackson

Dr. Van Jackson is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, and a Senior Research Scholar at Security in Context, where he is also Co-Director of the “Multipolarity, Great-power Competition, and the Global South” project. Additionally, he concurrently holds think tank appointments as a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, as the Defence & Strategy Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies in Wellington, New Zealand, and as a Senior Fellow in the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation & Disarmament. He is the host of the acclaimed Un-Diplomatic Podcast, and author of the Un-Diplomatic Newsletter. Prior to joining Victoria University, Dr. Jackson taught at Hawaii Pacific University, the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University and the Catholic University of America. He has also held fellowships with the Council on Foreign Relations, CNAS, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Pacific Forum CSIS. Although he writes, researches, and speaks about a wide range of topics--from defense strategy to progressive foreign policy and international relations theory--he is originally known as an expert on Korean affairs. See his official site for more details: www.vanjackson.org