Michael R. Auslin

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Michael R. Auslin
Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow

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Michael D. Auslin, PhD, is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A historian by training, Auslin is the author of Asia’s New Geopolitics, the best-selling The End of the Asian Century, and the forthcoming National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America. He is a regular contributor to leading print and broadcast media.

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Michael D. Auslin, PhD, is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

A historian by training, Auslin is the author of the forthcoming history National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America. He also writes The Patowmack Packet, a Substack on Washington, DC, and American history. His prior books include Asia’s New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific and the best-selling The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region. He has been a longtime contributor to The Wall Street Journal and his writing appears in other leading publications including the Financial Times, The Spectator, Law & Liberty, and Foreign Policy. He comments regularly for US and foreign print and broadcast media.

Previously an associate professor of history at Yale University, Auslin is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Among his honors are being named a distinguished visiting scholar at the Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center, the American Heritage Partners Research Fellow at the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati, a Fulbright Scholar, a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and a German Marshall Fund Marshall Memorial Fellow. He serves on the board of the American Ditchley Foundation.