Nick Ackert
Biography
Nick Ackert is a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Department of Political Science specializing in Security Studies and International Relations. His research interests include Chinese foreign policy (especially frontier security and neighborhood diplomacy), East Asian international relations, and civil conflict in Southeast Asia. Nick's dissertation project conducts a deep dive into Chinese intervention in the Burmese Civil War to explain why states simultaneously sponsor government and rebel forces in the same conflict. Before joining the MIT community, Nick graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard with a concentration in Classics. He also completed a double MSc in International Affairs (Political Science and International History) with distinction at Peking University and the London School of Economics.
Biography
Nick Ackert is a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Department of Political Science specializing in Security Studies and International Relations. His research interests include Chinese foreign policy (especially frontier security and neighborhood diplomacy), East Asian international relations, and civil conflict in Southeast Asia. Nick's dissertation project conducts a deep dive into Chinese intervention in the Burmese Civil War to explain why states simultaneously sponsor government and rebel forces in the same conflict. Before joining the MIT community, Nick graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard with a concentration in Classics. He also completed a double MSc in International Affairs (Political Science and International History) with distinction at Peking University and the London School of Economics.