Eyck Freymann

About

Eyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University and a non-resident research fellow at the China Maritime Studies Institute, US Naval War College.

A historian and China specialist by training, Dr. Freymann works on a range of national security topics, including strategic deterrence in the Taiwan Strait, the geopolitics of climate change, emerging defense technology, and economic coercion and crisis contingency planning. His first book, One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World, was published by Harvard University Press in 2021. His essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The Economist, War on the Rocks, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic. 

Dr. Freymann previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and the Columbia–Harvard China and the World Program. He holds a doctorate in China studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford; master’s degrees in China studies from Harvard University and St Edmunds College, University of Cambridge; and a bachelor’s in East Asian history from Harvard College.