Prof. Kerry K. Gershaneck

Professor Kerry K. Gershaneck has been a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies, National Chengchi University in Taiwan for the past three years.  He is a Senior Research Associate at the Thammasat University Faculty of Law (CPG) in Thailand; an Adjunct Professor with University of Canberra’s Institute for Governance & Policy Analysis (IGPA) in Australia; a member of The Research Institute for Japan-U.S.-Taiwan Relations (JUST) security think tank; and the Senior Fellow (Regional Security & Geopolitical Trends) with the Global Risk Mitigation Foundation (GRMF) in Honolulu.  He was the Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy and the Royal Thai Naval Academy in Thailand for a total of seven years.

Previously, Prof. Gershaneck was a strategic planner and spokesman for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and a Senior Fellow and the Director of Governmental & Public Relations with Pacific Forum, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). A former U.S. Marine Corps officer, he has extensive intelligence, counterintelligence, special warfare, combat arms, and strategic communications experience. He worked with the U.S. Information Agency in Washington D.C. and at U.S. embassies in East and Southwest Asia. As a senior Civil Servant, he helped lead U.S. Department of Defense International Relations and Security Cooperation activities in 43 countries in the Indo-Pacific Region for 10 years.  He is the recipient of the prestigious Defense Superior Service Medal and the Legion of Merit.

Prof. Gershaneck has more than 20 years of university-level teaching experience, with primary focus on political warfare, strategic communication, crisis communication, regional security, and international relations.   He has published extensively in many periodicals including Europa Atlantica, The National Interest, The Diplomat, Japan Forward, Asia Times, The Journal of Advanced Military Studies, The Global Taiwan Brief, Fu Hsing Kang Academic Journal, The Nation (Bangkok), Marine Corps University Journal, Project 2049 Institute, Bangkok Post, and Taipei Times.  He is the author of Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China’s Plan to “Win without Fighting” (MCU Press, 2020).