Brendan Flynn
Brendan Flynn is a Sarasohn Dissertation Fellow PhD Candidate at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. His research focuses on IR theory and the U.S.-China-Taiwan relationship. Brendan’s research helps explain instability in the relationship as a consequence of structural, domestic, and individual leader factors.
Brendan has conducted fieldwork and language-study in Taiwan, and language-study in China. His work has been supported by the Boren Fellowship and the Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) Taiwan Scholarship, and his writing has appeared in a GTI Occasional Report and in The National Interest.
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
IR theory; security studies; U.S.-China relations; Taiwan
Education
B.A. - Bard College at Simon's Rock (2009)Awards and grants
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Sarasohn Dissertation Fellowship (2024 - 2025) - Wayne State University, Department of Political Science
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Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) Taiwan Scholarship (2023)
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David L. Boren Fellowship (2022 - 2023) - Intensive Mandarin language study, Taipei, Taiwan
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Thomas C. Rumble Fellowship (2020 - 2021) - Wayne State University, Department of Political Science
Selected publications
"An Untenable Status Quo: Structural Change and the U.S.-China-Taiwan Relationship." Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) Occasional Report, April 2024
"Biden Must Build a New Status Quo on Taiwan." The National Interest. 09/21/2022.