Rate My Professor Andrew Kennedy

Associate Professor Andrew Kennedy serves in the Policy & Governance Program at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. He earned a PhD from the Department of Government at Harvard University, a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) from Tufts University, and a Bachelor of Science (BS) from Duke University. Kennedy specializes in international and comparative politics, with particular interests in China, India, and the United States. His research focuses on the politics and policymaking surrounding science, technology, and innovation, including China’s rise as a technology power, U.S.-China high-tech rivalry, and the globalization and deglobalization of innovation. He has also examined the foreign policies of China and India during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras.

Kennedy is the author of acclaimed books such as The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru: National Efficacy Beliefs and the Making of Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2012), reviewed in journals including Perspectives on Politics, The China Quarterly, and Journal of Cold War Studies; The Conflicted Superpower: America’s Collaboration with China and India in Global Innovation (Columbia University Press, 2018), which received the Kirkus Star Award for exceptional merit, was published as part of the Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book series on American–East Asian Relations, and translated into Chinese by CITIC Press Group in 2021; and the forthcoming Rebellious Follower: China’s Search for Science, Technology, and Innovation (Oxford University Press, 2026). His peer-reviewed articles include “Guiding Science in China” in Science (2025), “The Process of Paradigm Change: The Rise of Guided Innovation in China” in Review of International Political Economy (2024), “The Resilience Requirement: Responding to China’s Rise as a Technological Power” in Survival (2023), “America’s Advantages: Contending with China’s Tech Rise” in Washington Quarterly (2025), and “The Stakes in Decoupling Discovery: China’s Role in Transnational Innovation” (with David L. Dwyer) in The Pacific Review (2022). Kennedy has secured Australian Research Council funding as Principal Investigator for “The Search for Technology and Power in China and India” (2013–2019) and as Co-investigator on “Navigating the Emerging Geo-Economic Order” (2020–2024). He is registered to supervise research students.