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Iskander Rehman
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Applied history, defense strategy & Asian security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow @AtlanticCouncil . Incoming Assistant Professor @ClementsCenter
Washington, DC
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    Iskander Rehman
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    May 5
    Having long admired their intellectual mission & work on strategy and statecraft, I'm thrilled to share that I will be moving down to Austin this summer and joining the @ClementsCenter as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.
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    Iskander Rehman
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    Jan 2, 2022
    Deeply sinister.
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    Iskander Rehman
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    Jul 30, 2021
    Saddening and alarming to see a once-respected scholar shamelessly spouting Chinese state-sanctioned propaganda on Chinese state-affiliated media. What a complete and utter moral collapse.
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    Jul 30, 2021
    "America🇺🇸 has functionally become a PLUTOCRACY, a government of the 1% by the 1% and for the 1%.” “China🇨🇳 has functionally become a MERITOCRACY, the society that picks the best brains in the society to run the society.” —— @mahbubani_k
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    Iskander Rehman
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    Jul 30, 2020
    A few words on this much-discussed (but IMHO problematic) piece in FP. First of all, I share some of the author's frustration. Trotting out the same passages of Thucydides when commenting on Sino-US rivalry has become something of a tired trope, not (1/25
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    Oh God, Not the Peloponnesian War Again
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    Iskander Rehman
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    Jul 22, 2024
    First day. Thrilled to be part of the team @RANDCorporation
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    Iskander Rehman
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    May 1, 2024
    Some exciting news--I will now be writing a regular applied history column for @WarOnTheRocks. Every six weeks, I'll be publishing a new essay on the history of strategy and warfare--always with an eye to applying insights to our troubled present. Thrilled about this partnership.
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    Iskander Rehman
    @IskanderRehman
    Jul 3, 2024
    Some professional news: later this month I will be joining @RANDCorporation as a Senior Political Scientist. Honored to join such a storied institution & looking forward to working alongside colleagues whose research on Asia, strategy & defense I have long followed & admired.
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    Iskander Rehman
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    Jun 26, 2020
    Some personal news: from mid-July I will be taking on a new position as Senior Fellow for Strategic Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council @afpc, where I will be initiating a new research effort on applied history, grand strategy, & great power competition in Asia. (1/4)
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    Iskander Rehman
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    Jan 27, 2018
    "Just because you plant your flag somewhere doesn't mean that territory changes hands," France's defense minister said in relation to China's "fait accompli politics" in the South China Sea" s.nikkei.com/2Fd6Jzy
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    Iskander Rehman
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    Jul 8, 2020
    "It is vital that the younger generation of Chinese, who (..) have no experience of China's tumultuous past, are made aware of the mistakes China made as a result of hubris and excesses in ideology." Interesting to re-read this 2013 discussion with LKY.
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    Interview: Lee Kuan Yew on the Future of U.S.- China Relations
    In this book excerpt, one of Asia's greatest statesmen says competition is inevitable between China and the U.S., but conflict is not.
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    Iskander Rehman
    @IskanderRehman
    Apr 4, 2023
    So immensely proud of my better half, *Dr.* Jennifer Mcardle @jlmcardle01 I’ve always envied Finland’s custom of giving swords to freshly minted PHDs & decided to follow our new NATO ally’s excellent tradition.
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    Iskander Rehman
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    Dec 1, 2022
    For the curious, it looks like the table of contents of the new Makers of Modern Strategy is now visible online, along with @HalBrands ´s elegant introduction. press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
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    Iskander Rehman
    @IskanderRehman
    Sep 5, 2023
    Coming later this fall—my Adelphi book on protracted warfare & Sino-US competition . Grateful to @Benjamin__Rhode @alice_aveson & the excellent folks at @IISS_org for their sterling editorial work, and to @KoriSchake , @AaronFriedberg & @Rory_Medcalf for their kind endorsements.
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    Iskander Rehman
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    Apr 15, 2019
    A monument that has witnessed so much, meant so much, and survived so much. What a tragedy.
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