Rate My Professor Andrew Kennedy

Kennedy is the author of acclaimed books such as The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru: National Efficacy Beliefs and the Making of Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2012), reviewed in journals including Perspectives on Politics, The China Quarterly, and Journal of Cold War Studies; The Conflicted Superpower: America’s Collaboration with China and India in Global Innovation (Columbia University Press, 2018), which received the Kirkus Star Award for exceptional merit, was published as part of the Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book series on American–East Asian Relations, and translated into Chinese by CITIC Press Group in 2021; and the forthcoming Rebellious Follower: China’s Search for Science, Technology, and Innovation (Oxford University Press, 2026). His peer-reviewed articles include “Guiding Science in China” in Science (2025), “The Process of Paradigm Change: The Rise of Guided Innovation in China” in Review of International Political Economy (2024), “The Resilience Requirement: Responding to China’s Rise as a Technological Power” in Survival (2023), “America’s Advantages: Contending with China’s Tech Rise” in Washington Quarterly (2025), and “The Stakes in Decoupling Discovery: China’s Role in Transnational Innovation” (with David L. Dwyer) in The Pacific Review (2022). Kennedy has secured Australian Research Council funding as Principal Investigator for “The Search for Technology and Power in China and India” (2013–2019) and as Co-investigator on “Navigating the Emerging Geo-Economic Order” (2020–2024). He is registered to supervise research students.