Aaron L. Friedberg
Aaron L. Friedberg is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he taught from 1987 to 2026, and Co-director of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ Center for International Security Studies. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a Senior Advisor to the National Bureau of Asian Research.
Friedberg is the author of several books, including The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895–1905 (1988), In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America’s Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy (2000), A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia (2011), Getting China Wrong (2022) and The Derisking Race: China, America and the Fragmentation of the Global Economy (2026). His articles and essays have appeared in a number of publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times.
In 2001–02 Friedberg was the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress. He has been a research fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, the Norwegian Nobel Institute and the Smithsonian Institution’s Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. From June 2003 to June 2005, he was a Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs in the Office of the Vice President, and between 2022 and 2026 he served two terms as a congressionally appointed member of the US–China Economic and Security Review Commission.
Dr. Friedberg received his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University.
