Isaac Kardon

Isaac Kardon is senior fellow for China studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is concurrently an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and was formerly an assistant professor at the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute. Kardon’s book, “China’s Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order” (published by Yale University Press in 2023), analyzes the People’s Republic of China’s influence on the law of the sea. His writing appears in the New York Times, International Security, Security Studies, Foreign Affairs and the Naval War College Review, and has been delivered as congressional testimony and briefed across the joint force and across agencies. Kardon earned a Ph.D. in government from Cornell University, an M.Phil in Modern Chinese Studies from Oxford University and a B.A. in history from Dartmouth College. He was a China and the World postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and held visiting appointments at New York University’s School of Law, Academia Sinica, and the People’s Republic of China’s National Institute for South China Sea Studies.