Dr. Jared McKinney
With the Chinese military forces conducting amphibious landing drills, implying a threat to Taiwan, we announce an updated topic and speaker.
Moderator: Maj. Gen. Walter Givhan, (Ret.), ALWAC President.
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, in the Civic Room at 231 Montgomery St, Montgomery, AL.
Reception at 5:30 pm CT, presentation at 6:15 pm and question time from 7-7:30 pm.
Webinar via Zoom: login and social time, from 5:45 pm CT.
Dr. Jared Morgan McKinney is Assistant Professor of International Security Studies, Air War College; he was formerly Chair, Strategy and Security Studies, Global College of Professional Military Education, Air University; he also serves as Adjunct Professor, Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University.
In October 2023, Dr. McKinney presented on his then-forthcoming monograph, Deterrence Gap in the Taiwan Strait. The presentation argued that the deterrence situation was decaying, and that risk of conflict over the next decade was increasing. Arguably, the last two years have borne out this warning. Now he will present on his follow up edited volume, Closing the Deterrence Gap in the Taiwan Strait, forthcoming from Air University Press this summer. This volume contains a series of practical military-political proposals to shore up deterrence in the near term while avoiding actions that would be politically escalatory, and therefore likely to spark—as opposed to deter—a conflict.
McKinney's research focuses on deterring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, periods of great power peace across world history, and Sino-American relations. He is the book review editor for the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs.
He advises on Chinese politics, East Asia, great power competition, Thucydides, Classical Realism, International Relations theory, and the causes of war.
McKinney holds the PhD, International Relations, Nanyang Technological University; MSc, International Affairs, London School of Economics; LLM, International Relations, Peking university; MSc, Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University; and the BA in History, from Patrick Henry College.
His publications include “Broken Nest: Deterring China from Invading Taiwan” (co-authored with Peter Harris), Parameters (Winter 2021): 23-36; “The Scholar and the Ghost: Thucydides, China’s Rise, and Major Power War,” Journal of Contemporary China (2022); and “Nothing Fails Like Success: The London Ambassadors’ Conference and the Coming of the First World War,” Journal of Strategic Studies (2018): 947-1000.
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