Mira Rapp-Hooper

Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper (Twitter: @MiraRappHooper) is a political scientist and expert on security in the Asia-Pacific region.

Her field of expertise includes Asia security issues, deterrence, nuclear strategy and policy, and alliance politics.

She is currently based at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where she works as a fellow in their Asia-Pacific Security Program.

Previously she worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), as an Asia Fellow and as Director of CSIS’ Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative.

She has published in Political Science Quarterly, Security Studies, and Survival (academic); the National Interest, Foreign Affairs, and The Washington Quarterly (press). She is a regular journalistic source on Asia issues and has provided expert analysis to the New York Times, The Washington Post, and NPR and the BBC.

Dr. Rapp-Hooper was also Asia Policy Coordinator for the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign.

She was a Foreign Policy Interrupted Fellow, and is a David Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission and an Associate Editor with the International Security Studies Forum.

She holds a B.A. in history from Stanford University and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.

Recent Publications

• 'Deciphering Trump’s Asia Policy,' Foreign Affairs, November 22, 2016
• ‘Parting the South China Sea,’ Foreign Affairs, September/October 2016 issue
• ‘Choose Your Own Adventure: The Next President’s Voyage in the South China Sea,’ War on the Rocks, July 14, 2016 (with Dr. Patrick M. Cronin)
• ‘How China Sees World Order,’ The National Interest, April 20, 2016 (with Richard Fontaine)