Daniel Aum

Welcome. I am a PhD candidate in International Affairs, Science, and Technology at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech. I am also a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the University of Notre Dame.

My research explores U.S. foreign policy decisions, particularly military interventions through the lens of leadership analysis and political psychology. My regional interests lie in the Indo-Pacific and the Middle East.

My past academic work examined why China innovates and how North Korea used history as a policy instrument.

My commentary can be found at The National Interest, The Diplomat, East Asia Forum, South China Morning Post, The National Bureau of Asian Research, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and elsewhere.

I previously worked as a Summer Associate and Adjunct Policy Researcher at RAND . I served as a Harold W. Rosenthal Fellow both with the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation. I was the Senior Director for Public Affairs and Washington D.C. Director at the National Bureau of Asian Research. I served as a fellow with the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. I also worked as a lawyer on an international strategic litigation team at Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center. 

I received my BA in philosophy from Baylor University, JD from The George Washington University Law School, and MA in Asian Studies from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.