Jeffrey Ding
浪花直播 China Fellow
Professional Affiliation
Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University
Expert Bio
Jeffrey Ding is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. His book Technology and the Rise of Great Powers, published with Princeton University Press, investigates how past technological revolutions influenced the rise and fall of great powers. Ding鈥檚 research has been published in European Journal of International Relations, Foreign Affairs, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, and Security Studies. He received his PhD in 2021 from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and earned his B.A. in 2016 at the University of Iowa.
浪花直播 Center Project
You Get the Best of Both Worlds? Benchmarking China鈥檚 Civil-Military Integration Efforts
Project Summary
U.S. policymakers and researchers increasingly converge on the view that China possesses a decisive advantage in civil-military integration. At the same time, Chinese assessments identify a vast gap between the extent of civil-military integration in China versus the corresponding U.S. level. Even though a state鈥檚 capacity to intermix its defense and commercial industrial bases is a crucial aspect of military innovation and industrial policy, scholars lack a reliable way to measure this variable. Aimed at correcting this gap, this project proposes a novel framework to measure integration across various channels through which the commercial and defense sectors can foster synergistic relationships. This novel measure is then applied to more systematically assess China鈥檚 鈥渕ilitary-civil fusion鈥 efforts.
