Evan Resnick

2005 Ph.D. – Department of Political Science, Columbia University

2001 M.Phil. – Department of Political Science, Columbia University

1999 M.A. – Department of Political Science, Columbia University

1996 B.A. – Department of Political Science, York University (Canada)

International Relations theory, international security studies, United States foreign policy, military alliances.

2024- Associate Professor, Tokyo International University

2012-2024 Assistant Professor and Senior Associate Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

2005-2012 Assistant Professor, Yeshiva University (U.S.)

2004-2005 Visiting Lecturer, Yeshiva University (U.S.)

2021-2024, Academic Research Fund Tier 1 Research Grant, Republic of Singapore Ministry of Education (Project: “Interests, Ideologies, and Great Power Spheres of Influence”)

2019, Visiting Fellowship, International Security in the Globalization Era Team Project, Centre for International Peace and Security Studies, McGill University.

2007, Faculty Summer Research Grant, Yeshiva University.

2006, Doctoral Dissertation Nominated for the Bancroft Dissertation Award, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University.

2004-2005, University of Pennsylvania, Christopher Browne Center for International Studies, Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined).

2003-2004, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, Public Policy Consortium Fellowship.

2002, Columbia University, Institute of War and Peace Studies, Summer Travel Grant.

2001-2004, Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Tuition Fellowship.

2001, Journal of International Affairs, Andrew Wellington Cordier Essay Prize.

2000-2004, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, Andrew Wellington Cordier Teaching Fellowship.

1997-2001, Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, President’s Fellowship.

1996-1997, Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Faculty Fellowship.

“China’s Unilateralism and the ‘Alliance Allergy’ of Rising Powers,” International Politics, published Online First (February 4, 2026), pp. 1-23.

“Great Powers,” in Beate Jahn and Sebastian Schindler, eds. Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025), pp. 153-154.

“Interests, Ideologies, and Great Power Spheres of Influence,” European Journal of International Relations, 28, No. 3 (September 2022), pp. 563-588.

“Ideological Conflict and Alliances of Convenience in International Politics,” in Jonathan L. Maynard and Mark L. Haas, eds., Routledge Handbook on Ideology and International Relations (London: Routledge, 2022), pp. 181-194.

Allies of Convenience: A Theory of Bargaining in U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019).

“The Obama Rebalance and U.S. Policy Towards China” in Yoichiro Sato and Tan See Seng, eds., United States Engagement in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives From Asia (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2015), pp. 11-36.

“The ‘Rebalance’ and the Dangers of America’s Creeping Containment of China,” in Geoffrey Till, ed., The Changing Maritime Scene in Asia: Rising Tensions and Future Strategic Stability (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 22-36.

“I Will Follow: Smart Power and Wartime Alliance Management,” Journal of Strategic Studies, 38, No. 3 (2015), pp. 383-409.

“Hang Together or Hang Separately? Evaluating Rival Theories of Wartime Alliance Cohesion,” Security Studies, 22, No. 4 (2013), pp. 672-706.

“Strange Bedfellows: U.S. Bargaining Behavior With Allies of Convenience,” International Security, 35, No. 3 (Winter 2010/2011), pp. 144-184.

“Debating British Decisionmaking toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s,” International Security (Correspondence with Jack S. Levy and Norrin M. Ripsman), 34, No. 1 (Summer 2009), pp. 173-198.

“Defining Engagement,” Journal of International Affairs, 54, No. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 551-566 (recipient of 2001 Andrew Wellington Cordier Essay Prize).