Mira Rapp Hooper is a fellow with the CSIS Asia Program and director of the CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative. Her expertise includes Asia security issues, deterrence, nuclear strategy and policy, and alliance politics. She was previously a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her Ph.D. dissertation, “Absolute Alliances: Extended Deterrence in International Politics,” is a study of the formation and management of so-called nuclear umbrella alliances. Dr. Rapp Hooper’s academic and policy writings have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, Security Studies, the National Interest, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, and The Washington Quarterly, among others. She holds a B.A. in history from Stanford University and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. Dr. Rapp Hooper has been a CNAS Next Generation National Security Fellow and is currently a David Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission.

Fun-fact: One of Mira’s favorite possessions is an original, signed copy of the Smyth Report– the first official U.S. government history of the Manhattan Project, written at the end of World War II.