Expertise: Peace and Security in Northeast Asia
Deborah Welch Larson is Research Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. at Stanford University. She taught at UCLA from 1988-2022. She previously was an assistant professor at Columbia University and University of Southern California. Her research interests include status concerns, Russian and Chinese foreign policies and world order. Her books include Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation (1985); Anatomy of Mistrust: US-Soviet Relations during the Cold War (1997); Status in World Politics (with T. V. Paul and William C. Wohlforth, 2014) and Quest for Status: Chinese and Russian Foreign Policy (2019) (with Alexei Shevchenko). Her articles include “Status Seekers: Chinese and Russian Responses to U.S. Primacy,” International Security 34, no. 4 (Spring 2010): 63-95 (with Alexei Shevchenko); “The Role of Belief Systems and Schemas in Foreign Policy Decision Making,” Political Psychology (1994); “Russia Says No: Power, Status, and Emotions in Foreign Policy,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 47, no. 3-4 (2014) (with Alexei Shevchenko); and “Will China be a New Type of Great Power?” Chinese Journal of International Politics 8, no. 4 (2015).