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Daryl Press is a Professor of Government and the founding Faculty Director of the Davidson Institute for Global Security at Dartmouth.

His research and teaching focus on U.S. foreign policy, with an emphasis on the future of warfare. He has written two books, Calculating Credibility (2005) and The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution (2020), and his current research focuses on the evolving geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China. Dr. Press’s research has appeared in leading academic journals such as International Security and the American Political Science Review, as well as popular outlets including Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic Monthly.

Daryl Press is the founding co-Director of the Dartmouth-Sandia nuclear Boot Camp, which trains young policymakers and foreign policy analysts from the United States and allied countries in the technical underpinnings of the nuclear deterrence mission. Beginning in the summer of 2025, he is the founding Faculty Director of the Davidson Institute for Global Security at Dartmouth, which fosters rigorous research on critical international security topics and trains Dartmouth students for careers in international affairs.

Press has worked for more than two decades as a consultant for the United States Defense Department. He is a research affiliate of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC. Dr. Press received his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jennifer Lind is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth, affiliated with the Davidson Institute of Global Security at the Dickey Center. Professor Lind is the author of Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Transformed Tyranny (Cornell University Press, 2025). It argues that China has risen to become a superpower and technological leader – defying the expectations of an influential literature on domestic institutions, economic development, and innovation. Arguing that authoritarian regimes are highly heterogenous and adaptable, Lind shows that “smart authoritarianism” enabled China to not only experience catch-up economic growth but also to cultivate cutting-edge technological innovation.

Lind’s first book was Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics, which examines the effect of war memory on international reconciliation (Cornell, 2008). She has authored scholarly articles in International Security and International Studies Quarterly, and writes for wider audiences in outlets such as Foreign Affairs andNational Interest. She has been quoted and interviewed by PBS Newshour, National Public Radio, the Washington Post, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Lind is also editor in chief of Blue Blaze, a multi-author Substack focusing on international relations and US foreign policy.

Professor Lind is affiliated with the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard, as well as Chatham House, London. In recent years she has been a visiting scholar at Waseda University, Japan, and at the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Lind has worked as a consultant for RAND and for the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense.

Lind holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a Master’s from the School of Global Policy & Strategy from the University of California, San Diego; and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.