Yvonne Chiu is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on Indo-Pacific policy, defense strategy, authoritarianism, just-war theory, and global justice. She also teaches at the United States Naval War College as an associate professor of strategy and policy and serves on the board of directors for the International Society for Military Ethics.

Before joining AEI, Dr. Chiu was a fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a scholar at the Liberty Fund. She was previously a visiting scholar at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Chiu has also been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study and an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Chiu’s work has been published in a variety of media outlets, academic journals, and volumes, including the Journal of Politics, Journal of Political Philosophy, Warfare Ethics in Comparative Perspective (2024), CNN, Forbes, Time, the Strategy Bridge, and Taipei Times. Her book Conspiring with the Enemy: The Ethic of Cooperation in Warfare (2019) won the International Studies Association–International Ethics Section Book Award and the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award. In her current book project, Iron Fist, Silk Glove (forthcoming), she examines the evolution of authoritarianism in East Asia.

She has a PhD and MA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in international relations from Stanford University.