Richard Javad Heydarian is an Asia-based academic, having taught political science at Ateneo De Manila University and De La Salle University, Philippines. He is currently a fellow at the National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He is a regular contributor to Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He has written for/or interviewed by Aljazeera, BBC,Bloomberg, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Atlantic, South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia Review, Straits Times, among other leading publications.

• 1. The New Cartography of Power.- 2. The Trump Doctrine: The Art of Creative Disruption.- 3. The Great Distraction: The Near East and North Korea.- 4. Xi Must Be Obeyed: The New Peking Order.- 5. The Belt and Road: China as the New Vanguard of Globalization.- 6. The New Cold War: Sleep-Walking Into Great Power Conflict.- 7. The Post-American World: Middle Powers and the Coalition of Deterrence.- 8. China’s Inchoate Hegemony: Small Powers’ Struggle for Autonomy.- 9. The Revenge of Malthus: Pax Indo-Pacifica and Rhizomatic Order.