The Centre for Grand Strategy is delighted to invite you to our next Indo-Pacific related event.

Prof Alessio Patalano will sit down for an ‘in conversation’ with Dr Isaac B. Kardon, Senior Fellow at the Asian Programme at Carnegie. Isaac has published widely in leading academic journals, and more broadly in policy outlets. His most recent work has dealt with how developing countries draw upon the US for external security and China for their internal security and was published in Foreign Affairs in 2024

Isaac’s first book, China’s Law of the Sea is the seminal study on the Chinese approach to the law of the sea and its weaponisation in international affairs.

Prof Patalano will explore with Isaac his work and his findings before opening the flow to a Q&A.

We look forward to seeing you there! Please register to attend the event.

About the speakers:

Dr Isaac B. Kardon is a senior fellow for China studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is concurrently adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and was formerly assistant professor at the U.S. Naval War College (NWC), where he served as a research faculty member in the China Maritime Studies Institute. Isaac’s research centers on the People’s Republic of China’s maritime power, with specialization in maritime disputes and the international law of the sea, Chinese global port development, China-Pakistan relations, and the People’s Liberation Army’s overseas basing. His writing appears in International Security, Security Studies, Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Naval War College Review, as well as other scholarly and policy publications. Isaac’s book, China’s Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order (Yale, 2023) analyzes whether and how China is “making the rules” of regional and global order.

Alessio Patalano is Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia at the Department of War Studies (DWS), King’s College London (KCL) where he specialises in maritime strategy and doctrine, Japanese military history and strategy, East Asian security, and British defence policy towards the Indo-Pacific. Prof Patalano is the Director of the King’s Japan Programme and the newly established Indo-Pacific Programme at the Centre for Grand Strategy, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), a Visiting Professor at the Japan Maritime Command and Staff College (JMCSC), and an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University Japan.He is a Senior Fellow at the think tanks Policy Exchange, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), and Sir Herbert Richmond Fellow on naval strategy at the Council on Geostrategy.