Van Jackson

Van Jackson joined Victoria University of Wellington in 2017 as a Senior Lecturer in International Relations. He is also a Senior Research Scholar at Security in Context, where he co-directs its "Multipolarity, Great-Power Competition, and the Global South" project. Van holds additional policy research appointments as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy; a Distinguished Fellow with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada; as the Defence & Strategy Fellow with the Centre for Strategic Studies; and as a Senior Research Adviser with the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Nonproliferation & Disarmament.

Van’s research broadly concerns East Asian and Pacific security, the intersection of political ideology and U.S. foreign policy, and critical perspectives on the theory and practice of grand strategy.