Nicholas Anderson

Nicholas Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University. His research and teaching interests include great power politics, military intervention and territorial expansion, conventional military operations, and East Asian international relations. His first book, Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics (Cornell University Press, 2024), was awarded the International Studies Association International Security Studies Section’s Best Book Award for 2026. His research and other writings have also been published in journals such as International Security, International Interactions, The Texas National Security Review, Political Science Quarterly, The Washington Quarterly, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, among other outlets. He previously had fellowships at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He received a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.