Eyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University, where he directs the Allied Coordination Working Group, He is also a Non-Resident Research Fellow at Columbia CGEP and the U.S. Naval War College, China Maritime Studies Institute.
He works on strategies to preserve peace and protect U.S. interests and values in an era of systemic competition with China. He is the author of several books, including The Arsenal of Democracy: Technology, Industry, and Deterrence in an Age of Hard Choices (Hoover, 2025), with Harry Halem, and One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World (Harvard, 2021). His scholarly work has appeared in The China Quarterly and is forthcoming in International Security.
Eyck advises policymakers in the United States and allied countries. His writing appears regularly in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Economist, War on the Rocks, The Wire China, and The Atlantic, among other venues, focusing on bipartisan approaches to pressing national security issues.
Earlier in his career, Eyck held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and Columbia. He holds a doctorate from Oxford, masters degrees from Cambridge and Harvard, and a bachelors from Harvard, all in history and China studies.