Meet the Speaker: Joshua Eisenman

Joshua Eisenman is associate professor of politics at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs and senior fellow for China studies at the American Foreign Policy Council.

His research focuses on the political economy of China’s development and its foreign relations with the global south – particularly Africa. His work has been published in top academic journals including World Development, Journal of Contemporary China, Global
Environmental Politics, and the Journal of International Development and in popular outlets such as the Wall Street Journal and Foreign Policy.

Eisenman’s book, China and Africa: A Century of Engagement (University of Pennsylvania Press), co-authored with Ambassador David H. Shinn, was named one of the “Best International Relations Books for 2012″ by Foreign Affairs. The book’s updated, uncensored Chinese edition was published in 2020 by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. In China Steps Out: Beijing’s Major Power Engagement with the Developing World (Routledge, 2018), Eisenman and Eric Heginbotham analyze China’s policies toward countries in the Global South. His next book with Ambassador Shinn on China’s political and security relations with Africa will be published in 2023 by Columbia University Press.