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Areas Of Expertise

China International Relations

East Asia Politics and Security

National Security Strategy and Policy

Affiliated Programs

China Program

U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security Program

Thomas Spencer Sexton

Junior Fellow

Spencer Sexton joined AFPC in April 2024 as a Junior Fellow. He is currently a Master's candidate at the University of Notre Dame (expected May 2024), specializing in East Asia, with an emphasis on Chinese foreign policy and security in the Indo-Pacific. He is also thematically interested in fragile states, in which he has conducted intensive research on the Coastal West Africa region and Syria. He has worked as a contractor on developing an Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation (AM&E) framework on DOD stabilization and security cooperation policies for the U.S. Dept. of Defense Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Stabilization. He previously served for 5 years on the JET Program in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan and worked in the private sector.

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