Chris Miller
Chris Miller is Associate Professor of International History at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, where his research focuses on technology, geopolitics, economics, international affairs, and Russia. Chris also serves as Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Eurasia Director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and as a Director at Greenmantle, a New York and London-based macroeconomic and geopolitical consultancy. His research focuses on Russian history, politics, economics, foreign policy, the Cold War history, Chinese history, and economics in the US Diplomatic history. Chris is the author of Chip War, which chronicles the geopolitical history of a decades-long battle to control the modern world's most critical resource: the microchip and the commercial industry that supports it. He is the author of three previous books—Putinomics, The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy, and We Shall Be Masters.
Chris Miller Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow
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Associate Professor of International History
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Associate Director, Program in Grand Strategy
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Research Associate, Hoover Institution
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Research Consultant
Academic History
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Ph.D., History
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B.A., History
EARLY CAREER & EXPERTISE
Chris served as the Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale.
He was a Lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow where he taught courses on grand strategy, financial crises, and Economic history.
He was a Visiting Researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Center and a research Associate at the Brookings Institution.
He also served as a Fellow at the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Academy.
He is an expert in globalization & trade, history & diplomacy, international environment & energy, international politics & security, and regional studies, among others.
BOOKS
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (2022)
We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin (2021)
Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia (2018)
The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR (2016)
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Chris is a regular contributor to publications such as Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, and The American Interest.
He is regularly quoted in publications such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and is regularly featured on CNBC and NPR.