Andrew Reddie – Deputy Director

Dr. Andrew Reddie serves as the Berkeley APEC Study Center’s Deputy Director and is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Cybersecurity at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information where he works on projects related to cybersecurity, nuclear weapons policy, wargaming, and emerging military technologies. He is also the founder and faculty director for the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab.

Andrew serves in faculty leadership roles at UC Berkeley’s Center for Security in Politics, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, and is an affiliate at the University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. He also serves as the UC Berkeley campus lead for the University of California’s Disaster Resilience Network. He is a Bridging the Gap fellow, non-resident fellow at the Brute Krulak Center at Marine Corps University, and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Previously, Andrew has served in roles at Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Center for Global Security Research, and at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC, and was previously a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow.

His work has appeared in Science, the Journal of Peace Research, the Journal of Cyber Policy, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists among other outlets and has been variously supported by the Founder’s Pledge Fund, Carnegie Corporation of New York, MacArthur Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Science and Security Consortium.

» E-Mail: areddie@berkeley.edu



Content By Andrew Reddie – Deputy Director

Putting the Biden Administration’s “New Economic Statecraft” in Context

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Andrew Reddie – Deputy Director|

On Aug. 9, President Joe Biden declared (via executive order) a national emergency associated with the development of artificial intelligence, semiconductor, and quantum computing technology critical for “military, intelligence, surveillance, or cyber-enabled capabilities” in “countries of concern” (read: China).

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The New Reality of Economic Statecraft

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Andrew Reddie – Deputy Director|

The use of economic tools in the pursuit of national-security interests has surged in the wake of growing geopolitical tensions, especially the rivalry between China and the US.

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Security of Supply: The Determinants of State Intervention in Emerging Technology Sectors

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Andrew Reddie – Deputy Director|

Asia Global Papers, 2021
Scholars and policymakers have been increasingly concerned about technological competition between China and the United States over the past decade – made worse in recent months…

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Economic Statecraft in the 21st Century: Implications for the Future of the Global Trade Regime

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Andrew Reddie – Deputy Director|

World Trade Review, 2021
This article introduces a special issue that examines the effects of strategic competition on the future of the global trade regime.

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New Economic Statecraft: Industrial Policy in an Era of Strategic Competition

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Andrew Reddie – Deputy Director|

Issues & Studies: A Social Science Quarterly on China, Taiwan, and East Asian Affairs, 2020
The 2018 U.S. National Defense Strategy notes that the United States faces “an increasingly complex global security environment, characterized by overt challenges to the free and open international order and the re-emergence of long-term, strategic competition between nations.”

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Hypersonic missiles: Why the new “arms race” is going nowhere fast

|By Andrew Reddie – Deputy Director|

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2020
Speaking on December 24, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin marked the deployment of Russia’s first nuclear-capable hypersonic missile system, noting, “Today, we have a unique situation in our new and recent history. [Other countries] are trying to catch up with us. Not a single country possesses hypersonic weapons, let alone continental-range hypersonic weapons.”

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The US Needs an Industrial Policy for Cybersecurity

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Andrew Reddie – Deputy Director|

Defense One, 2019
President Trump’s recent Executive Order restricting the use of Huawei’s telecommunications equipment was hardly the first time the U.S. government has intervened in the private sector for purposes of national security.

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Reflections on the INF Withdrawal

|By Andrew Reddie – Deputy Director|

Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2019
Two weeks ago, the Trump administration announced that it intends to suspend its commitment to the INF Treaty and exercise Article XV of the Treaty.

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Regulators Join Tech Rivalry with National-Security Blocks on Cross-Border Investment

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Andrew Reddie – Deputy Director|

Global Asia, 2019
Vinod K. Aggarwal and Andrew W. Reddie lay out the wide-ranging regulatory frameworks being put into place to submit foreign direct investment to greater scrutiny on national-security grounds.

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Cyber Industrial Policy in an Era of Strategic Competition

|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Andrew Reddie – Deputy Director|

Center for Long-term Cybersecurity White Paper Series, 2019
This paper provides an overview of many of the industrial policy approaches available to policymakers seeking to advance their cybersecurity industries, with an investigation of the consequences of policies for national and international economies as well as global governance frameworks.

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Hypersonic Hysteria: Examining the Hypersonic Hammer

|By Andrew Reddie – Deputy Director|

Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2018
There are substantial questions for policy-makers to answer as the United State weighs the inclusion of hypersonic weapons to its arsenal.

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Design Matters: The Past, Present, and Future of the INF Treaty

|By Andrew Reddie – Deputy Director|

Trust and Verify, 2021
In a discussion with journalists on 20 October 2018, US President Trump announced that the United States would seek to withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, blaming Russian violations of the treaty as the reason for the decision.

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