Hunter Marston

Dr. Hunter Marston holds a PhD in international relations from the Australian National University’s Coral Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs. His research focuses on great power competition in Southeast Asia, Indo-Pacific security and alliances, and U.S. foreign policy. He is an adjunct research fellow at La Trobe Asia and an associate with 9DashLine. He was a 2021 non-resident WSD-Handa Fellow at the Pacific Forum in Honolulu and the recipient of a Robert J. Myers Fellows Fund from the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Previously, he was a senior research assistant for the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and a researcher with the Center for Strategic and International Studies Southeast Asia Program. He completed an MA in Southeast Asia studies and a master’s in public administration from the University of Washington. In 2012, he was a Harold Rosenthal Fellow in International Relations at the U.S. Embassy in Myanmar. His writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Contemporary Southeast Asia, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.