Andrew Cheon is Associate Professor of International Relations at Duke Kunshan University. Prior to joining DKU, Andrew was Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Andrew obtained his PhD in Political Science at Columbia University. In his undergraduate years, Andrew was founding president of Duke East Asia Nexus. Andrew is broadly interested in pressing issues of governance, contestation, and conflict in the age of climate change and great power competition. Andrew’s past research concerns actors’ varied efforts to reduce, subsidize, and protest fossil fuel dependence. Substantively, he has covered topics such as national oil companies, environmental conflict, climate activism, fossil fuel subsidies, energy technology innovation, and energy security. He is currently researching microfoundations of threat perceptions across different issue areas among great powers in the international system. Andrew’s work appeared in outlets such as Economics and Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Contemporary Security Policy, European Journal of International Security, Political Studies, Global Environmental Change, and Energy Policy. He is author of Fueling State Capitalism: How Domestic Politics Shapes Foreign Investments of National Oil Companies (Oxford University Press, 2023) and co-author of Activism and the Fossil Fuel Industry (Routledge, 2018).
