Sulmaan Wasif Khan teaches international history and Chinese foreign relations at Fletcher, The Graduate School of Global Affairs at Tufts University where he also directs the Water and Oceans Program at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy. He is the author of "Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping" (Harvard University Press: 2018), which was named a top book of 2018 by The American Interest, and "Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China’s Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands" (University of North Carolina Press: 2015). He has written for The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The American Interest,and YaleEnvironment360, among others, on topics ranging from Burmese Muslims to dolphin migration through the Bosphorus. He received his Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 2012.