APLN warmly welcomes Van Jackson, professor of international relations at Victoria University of Wellington, as our new Senior Research Adviser.

Prof. Jackson is an American political scientist specialising in Asian security and the politics of US foreign policy. He is a professor of international relations at Victoria University of Wellington, and a Senior Research Scholar at Security in Context, where he is also Co-Director of the “Multipolarity, Great-power Competition, and the Global South” project.

In his new role, Professor Jackson will lead the joint project between APLN, Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, and the Nautilus Institute on reducing the risk of nuclear weapon use in Northeast Asia. We are looking forward to working with him!