Taylor Fravel

American political scientist

Maris Taylor Fravel is an American scholar and author. He specializes in the areas of international relations, international security and territorial disputes.

Education

Fravel earned his BA in history (summa cum laude) from Middlebury College in 1993, MA in philosophy, politics and economics from New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in 1995, MS in international relations (with distinction) from London School of Economics, and PhD in political science from Stanford University in 2004.

Career

Taylor Fravel is the Director of the Security Studies Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)^[1] and is associated with Princeton University and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the board of directors for the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.^[2]^[3] He is also a participant of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy convened by Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations.^[4]

Publications

He is on the editorial boards of and has been published in journals including International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, and The China Quarterly.^[5] Books authored include two volumes of 'Princeton Studies in International Relations and History':

Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949. Princeton University Press, 2020. ISBN 9780691210339
Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Conflict and Cooperation in China’s Territorial Disputes. Princeton University Press, 2008. ISBN 9781400828876

References

^ "Taylor Fravel named director of the MIT Security Studies Program". MIT News. Center for International Studies. 1 July 2019. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
^ "M. Taylor Fravel | People | MIT Political Science". polisci.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
^ "M. Taylor Fravel 2006-2007 Fellow". Coluombia University: Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
^ "The Task Force on U.S.-China Policy". Asia Society. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
^ "SSP Faculty Taylor Fravel". MITSSP. Retrieved 4 June 2020.