Benjamin Herscovitch
Dr Benjamin Herscovitch
Qualifications
Bachelor of International Studies UNSW (1st Class Honours and University Medal), PhD USyd
Benjamin Herscovitch is a Research Fellow at the ANU’s School of Regulation and Global Governance, where he focuses on China’s economic statecraft and Australia-China relations. He is a member of the ANU Working Group on Geoeconomics.
Prior to joining RegNet, Benjamin was an analyst and policy officer in the Department of Defence, specialising in China’s external policy and Australia’s defence diplomacy. He was previously a researcher for Beijing-based thank-tanks and consultancies.
Benjamin holds a Bachelor of International Studies from the University of New South Wales (1st Class Honours and the University Medal) and a PhD in political theory from the University of Sydney.
Localisation and China’s tech success in Indonesia
Despite ambivalence about Chinese intentions in Indonesia’s political and defense establishment, Chinese telecoms firms have successfully used strategies of localization to position themselves as t
Navigating the future Australia-China relationship in the post-election context
On 22 June, RegNet academics Anthea Roberts, Darren Lim
Is ‘Fortress Australia’ inherently insecure?
Research Fellow Benjamin Herscovitch shared his thoughts in Development Intelligence Lab on whether ‘Fortress Australia’is inherently insecure.
Indo-Pacific diplomacy and the war on Ukraine – Benjamin Herscovitch on NSC Podcast
How should India’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine be interpreted? What has China learned from Russia’s strategic miscalculations?
Benjamin Herscovitch quoted in Al Jazeera on US-China relationship
Research Fellow Benjamin Herscovitch was quoted on Al Jazeera on US-China relationship following President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping’s first direct communication
In conversation with Benjamin Herscovitch and Dirk Van Der Kley
Dr Dirk Van Der Kley and Dr Benjamin Herscovitch’s National Security College Policy Options Paper, Protecting Education Exports: Minimising the damage of China’s future economic coercion reached a
Vulnerable education market must diversify away from China
Education is Australia’s only remaining export to China, valued over $10 billion annually, and it is both reliant on China and which Beijing can target without significant self-harm, according to a
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Navigating the Emerging Geoeconomic Order
This project will develop frameworks to understand how economic relationships and policy instruments can be sources of leverage and vulnerability.
