MIT World Speakers

Eric Heginbotham PhD '04

Eric Heginbotham is a doctoral candidate in the Political Science Department at MIT and a visiting faculty member at Boston College. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Forces on Korea and China and a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve, he has authored or co-authored many articles on Asia and military affairs in The National Interest, International Security, Foreign Affairs, and Military Review. His extensive field research in China coincided with several major crises in Chinese domestic and international politics. His dissertation examines the origins of Asian nations' grand strategies.