Eyck Freymann

About

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

A diplomatic historian and China specialist by training, Dr. Freymann has created work spanning the fields of political economy, climate policy, and national security. His first book, One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World, was published by Harvard University Press in 2021. His essays on China and other current affairs topics have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic. As a reporter and columnist for The Wire China, he is also the author of “The Warming War,” a series of investigative reports about the role of climate change in the US-China rivalry. He is currently working on two book projects: one about the geopolitics of climate and the other about the defense of Taiwan. 

Dr. Freymann was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center's Arctic Initiative 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.