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Eun A Jo in International Security: The Ideology Trap: China and the Limits of Cold War Analogies

Jun 8, 2026

Are China and the U.S. locked in a new Cold War? In the latest issue of International Security: Quarterly Journal, our postdoc alum Eun A Jo, now Assistant Professor of Government at William & Mary, and her co-author Jessica Chen Weiss argue against treating ideologies as fixed; contemporary China differs meaningfully from the Soviet Union, they note.

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