Alex Yu-Ting Lin is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia, and a nonresidential affiliated faculty at the University of Notre Dame’s International Security Center.

Alex studies the causes and strategies of revisionism, with a focus on US-China relations and Asian security. His book project, Contestation from Below, theorizes how smaller states shape when and why rising powers become dissatisfied with their status and seek to revise the international order. An article from the book project received the Patricia Weitsman award from the International Security Studies Section (ISSS), International Studies Association (ISA). His other research examines how states pursue their revisionist aims within international institutions or through information warfare.

His academic work has been published by European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, among others. His policy work has been published by The Diplomat and has received inquiries from the Parliament of Australia.

He received his PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Southern California. He has held research fellowships with the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at the George Washington University and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.