Strategic Questions
The Andrew W. Marshall Fellow program provides Fellows the time, space, resources, and guidance to take new approaches to explore the strategic questions facing the United States.
In keeping with the spirit of Andy Marshall’s legacy, Fellows have great freedom to select a topic to explore over a two-year period in residence at a host institution. They are valued for their original thinking and are expected to think broadly, creatively, and break new analytical ground.
2025-27 Andrew W. Marshall Fellow
Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
Sam Bresnick is a Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), focused on the national security applications of artificial intelligence, U.S.-China tech competition, and Chinese technology policy. His analysis has been published in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and Barron’s, among other outlets, and his commentary has been featured in The Economist, Politico, and the Associated Press. He has briefed policy audiences across the U.S. government and testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Previously, he was a Senior Research Analyst at Carnegie China, where he conducted research on U.S.-China relations, Chinese foreign policy, and East Asian security issues. Prior to joining Carnegie, he worked as a journalist in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and as a teacher in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He holds an AB in Comparative Literature from Brown University and an MA in Asian Studies from Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is pursuing a JD at the Georgetown University Law Center.
2025-27 Andrew W. Marshall Fellow
Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
Cole McFaul is a Research Analyst at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where he mainly focuses on emerging technology competition in the Asia-Pacific and China’s science and technology ecosystem. Prior to joining CSET, Cole researched the political economy of China’s international engagement strategies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. Cole holds a B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University.
2022-24 Andrew W. Marshall Fellow
Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
Owen J. Daniels is Associate Director for Analysis at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), shaping policy-relevant research across the organization’s analytical portfolio and exploring emerging tech’s defense implications in his writing (view his CSET work here). He sits on Young Professionals in Foreign Policy’s global leadership team as Publications Fellow. Before CSET, he worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses’ Joint Advanced Warfighting Division, researching AI and autonomous weapons norms and joint concepts. He has also worked in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center and at Aviation Week. Owen majored in International Relations with minors in Arabic and Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.
As a Fellow, Owen is exploring broad questions related to U.S. technology strategy, particularly in the context of U.S. partners and allies and their relationships to U.S. competitors.
Inaugural Andrew W. Marshall Fellow
Benjamin Angel Chang served as the inaugural Andrew W. Marshall Fellow and spent over a year in residence at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). Currently, Ben is an adjunct political scientist at RAND and a resident at Constellation focusing on the national security implications of artificial intelligence. He received his Ph.D. from MIT, where he studied AI’s impact on the U.S.-China military balance. He was previously a senior analyst at the Long Term Strategy Group, and received his A.B. (summa cum laude) from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
As an AWM Fellow, Ben explored intentionally broad questions related to U.S.-China competition, using his expertise in artificial intelligence as a framework for structured thinking about this hard problem. Ben examined questions such as competition duration, objectives, the meaning of competition, and the meaning of success.
Updates
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