The Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University is delighted to announce that the latest recipient of the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award is Rush Doshi, for his book The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Commemorating the founding director of the Mershon Center, the Furniss Award is conferred annually on an author’s first book that makes an exceptional contribution to the study of international, national, and/or human security. The current award is for a book published in the calendar year of 2021.

The committee, representing four disciplines, described the winning entry as follows.

Doshi takes on an important question: what are China’s strategic ambitions? Doshi brings impressive new evidence to bear, derived from collections of original documents, in several languages, concerning internal debates in China. He argues for the concept of a grand strategy and identifies three forms of control: coercive capability, consensual inducements and legitimacy that unfold over carefully defined phases of blunting, building, and expansion. The book is empirically rich and also strong conceptually and theoretically, addressing broader questions about hegemony and power shifts. The mixture of academic rigor and policy relevance is appropriate for both Mershon and the Furniss Award.

Doshi's visit to Ohio State for the award presentation and lecture will take place in Autumn 2023.

Rush Doshi (杜如松) is director for China at the National Security Council. He was the founding director of the Brookings China Strategy Initiative and a fellow in Brookings Foreign Policy. He was also a fellow at Yale’s Paul Tsai China Center. Doshi received his doctorate from Harvard University and his bachelor's from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School with a minor in East Asian Studies. He is proficient in Mandarin Chinese. His research focuses on Chinese grand strategy as well as Indo-Pacific security issues. Doshi was previously special advisor to the CEO of the Asia Group and an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He was also a member of the Asia policy working groups for the Biden and Clinton presidential campaigns, an analyst at the Long Term Strategy Group and Rock Creek Global Advisors, an Arthur Liman Fellow at the Department of State, and a Fulbright Fellow in China. Doshi is the author of The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Oxford 2021) and Global China: Assessing China's Growing Role in the World (Brookings, 2021). His research has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, International Organization, and The Washington Quarterly, among other publications. He has also testified before the Senate Commerce Committee and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.