Tyler Jost is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University. His research focuses on national security decision-making, bureaucratic politics, and Chinese foreign policy. His research has been published in International Organization, International Security, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and International Studies Quarterly. Dr. Jost’s first book, Bureaucracies at War (Cambridge University Press, 2024), examines how different types of bureaucratic institutions across the world lead to better and worse foreign policy decisions. He is currently working on a second book examining the role of peripheral states in cooperation between the United States and China. Dr. Jost completed his doctoral degree in the Department of Government at Harvard University and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Belfer Center International Security Program at the Kennedy School of Government, as well as in the China and the World Program at Columbia University. From 2023 to 2024, he was the David and Cindy Edelson Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security at Dartmouth College.