{"id":4,"date":"2012-04-05T18:10:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T18:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/brettbenson\/about-me\/"},"modified":"2023-02-10T15:38:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T20:38:15","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/brettbenson\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/510\/2021\/02\/profile_pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-336 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/510\/2021\/02\/profile_pic-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"profile_pic\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/510\/2021\/02\/profile_pic-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/510\/2021\/02\/profile_pic-768x1091.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/510\/2021\/02\/profile_pic-457x650.jpg 457w, https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/510\/2021\/02\/profile_pic.jpg 1178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brett V. Benson is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">His\u00a0research interests lie in the areas of international relations, political economy of conflict, and Chinese politics and East Asian relations. He is\u00a0currently working on projects related to military alliances, economic interdependence, the global trade in small arms and light weapons, and the China-Taiwan security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\">\n<p class=\"font_8\">Benson received a Ph.D. (Political Science) and an M.A. (Economics) from Duke University.<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt links:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Political Science Department\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/\">Political Science Department<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Asian Studies Program\" href=\"http:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/asianstudies\/\">Asian Studies Program<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett V. Benson is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University. His\u00a0research interests lie in the areas of international relations, political economy of conflict, and Chinese politics and East Asian relations. He is\u00a0currently working on projects related to military alliances, economic interdependence, the global trade in small arms and light&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":675,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/brettbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/brettbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/brettbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/brettbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/brettbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/brettbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/brettbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/brettbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/brettbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}