Five new nonresident fellows join the Institute for Global Affairs at Eurasia Group

[NEW YORK, NY] –– The Institute for Global Affairs (IGA) at Eurasia Group, a nonprofit research and education organization, today welcomed five scholars selected for its 2025 nonresident fellows program. 

The nonresident fellows were selected for their record of scholarship and their potential for high-impact, policy-relevant research. They will contribute analysis to critical topics in international affairs, and communicate their work to a wide audience.  

Mark Hannah, IGA’s chief executive officer, welcomed the cohort. “The nonresident fellows program identifies and supports the next generation of geopolitical thinkers, who help IGA educate the public about complex geopolitical issues. Their insights into key components of our interconnected world are critically important at this transitional moment.” 

The five nonresident fellows are: 

• Aaron Glasserman, PhD, is a historian of modern China whose research examines Chinese politics, society, and foreign relations. As an IGA nonresident fellow, Aaron will draw on his expertise in East Asian and Middle Eastern affairs to evaluate US-China competition and the prospects for strategic multilateralism as a pillar of American foreign policy. Aaron is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China and has held research positions at Harvard University and Princeton University. 

• Daniel Chardell, PhD, is a historian of US foreign policy, the Middle East, and global governance. Daniel is passionate about rethinking conventional historical wisdom, and his research agenda, which sits at the nexus of history and public policy, provides IGA with a lens to understanding the current situation in the Middle East. Daniel recently earned his PhD from Harvard University. His dissertation, the first international history of the Gulf War based in English- and Arabic-language archival research, is being worked into a book manuscript. He is currently a Henry Chauncey ‘57 Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs. 

• Julie George, PhD, is an international security expert specializing in emerging and dual-use technologies, government, and private sector relations, and trust. She joins IGA as a nonresident fellow to engage the public on policy-relevant issues and increase understanding of the geopolitical implications of artificial intelligence, cyber, and drones. Julie recently earned her PhD in government from Cornell University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Previously, she was a research contractor on OpenAI’s Geopolitics Team. 

• Lami Kim, PhD, is an international relations scholar focused on nuclear issues in East Asia. Her research investigates the impact of China’s nuclear exports on global governance, the national security implications of US export controls, and issues related to extended deterrence on the Korean Peninsula. Lami shares IGA’s commitment to public scholarship and frequently provides commentary to top-tier media outlets. Lami is a professor of security studies at the Department of Defense’s Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies and an adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii. She previously served as a foreign service officer at the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

• Moritz S. Graefrath, PhD, is an international relations scholar who focuses on US grand strategy, international cooperation, and global governance. He shares IGA’s mission of testing foreign policy assumptions and challenging preconceived wisdom, and his research on the causes and consequences of great power decline is particularly relevant to contemporary policy discussions. Moritz is a postdoctoral fellow in security and foreign policy at William & Mary’s Global Research Institute and an affiliate scholar with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Starting this fall, he will be the Wick Cary Assistant Professor of International Security at the University of Oklahoma’s College of International Studies.  

The nonresident fellows program runs from January to December 2025. During this time, they will participate in policy-focused and current events-oriented discussions, and hone their talents as publicly engaged intellectuals.  

Hannah continued, “As we navigate an era of great geopolitical uncertainty, this cohort of nonresident fellows will help provide much-needed clarity on a wide range of consequential issues, from nuclear weapons and emerging technologies to US foreign relations across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.” 

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For media inquiries, please contact: 

Lucas Robinson  

Senior Research Associate, Institute for Global Affairs at Eurasia Group 

robinson@instituteforglobalaffairs.org  

About the Institute for Global Affairs at Eurasia Group 

IGA pursues industry-leading research on geopolitics and global affairs, creates relevant, objective, fact-based content, tools, and programming, and partners around the world to: 

• Drive Awareness: Elevate geopolitics and global affairs as relevant, essential, and accessible to individuals, organizations, and communities everywhere. 

• Increase Understanding: Expand knowledge of geopolitics and global affairs among the public, particularly young people and historically marginalized and underrepresented groups. 

• Support Action: Enable people everywhere to bring an understanding of geopolitics and global affairs into their daily lives and decision-making.