Zach Cooper is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies US strategy in Asia, including alliance dynamics and US-China competition. He also teaches at Princeton University and is currently writing a book that explains how militaries change during power shifts. Before joining AEI, Dr. Cooper was the senior fellow for Asian security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and has served on the National Security Council, as well as the Department of Defense.

Dr. Cooper joins Nathan Lee from Baylor University to discuss deterrence and security in the Indo-Pacific.

To learn more about AEI’s Summer Honors Program visit our website here - https://www.aei.org/shp/. To learn more about Zack's course on Indo-Pacific policy visit the course description page here - https://www.aei.org/china-and-competition-in-the-indo-pacific/