Dr Kristi Govella specialises in the intersection of economics, security, and governance in international relations, with a focus on Japan and the Indo-Pacific region. Her research interests include economic statecraft, trade, investment, government-business relations, regional institutional architecture, military alliances, and the governance of the global commons. She has published numerous articles, chapters, and opinion pieces, and is co-editor of Linking Trade and Security: Evolving Institutions and Strategies in Asia, Europe, and the United States (2013) and Responding to a Resurgent Russia: Russian Policy and Responses from the European Union and the United States (2012).
Dr. Govella is currently the Director of the Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs and an Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is an Adjunct Fellow at the East-West Center and Pacific Forum, and Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Asia Policy. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in Political Science and Japanese from the University of Washington.
More information about her research and publications can be found on her website.
