I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government focusing on international relations and political psychology. I am interested in how public opinion shapes international conflict and how people form their foreign policy preferences. My dissertation examines the psychological roots of territorial conflict: why territorial nationalism resonates so deeply with people around the world, and how attitudes may shift to allow for the resolution of territorial disputes. I am a recipient of Harvard’s Ashford Fellowship and my work has been supported by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. Before my graduate studies, I worked at an NGO facilitating unofficial diplomatic convenings, and I have also worked with the U.S. Department of Labor. My op-eds have appeared in The Diplomat and RealClearDefense. I received a B.A. from Yale University and an MPA from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Contact
azhou@g.harvard.edu
My Website
1737 Cambridge Street
Subfields
International Relations
Academic Interests
Foreign Policy | Political Psychology | Public Opinion | Public Policy | Security Studies | State-Society Relations
Research Methods
Experiments | Quantitative Methods | Surveys
Geographic Regions of Study
Asia