Chia-Yun Po is a legal scholar specializing in arms control, nuclear nonproliferation, and international law, with a regional focus on the post-Soviet space and the Indo-Pacific. A former research fellow at the Davis Center, she investigates how authoritarian nuclear strategies intersect with international legal regimes and energy security. At Yale Law School, she focuses on Foreign Affairs Administrative Law.
Her recent policy op-ed, "Nuclear Energy Dependence in the Indo-Pacific" (FPRI, 2024), critically analyzes China and Russia’s civil-military nuclear entanglement in the Global South and its implications for arms control and democratic resilience. With training in both law and security studies, her work bridges doctrinal legal analysis with geostrategic policy concerns.
At Harvard, she presented on Soviet nationality policies in China, the ideological roots of transnational fascism in East Asia, and the underexplored hidden competition between China and Russia in the Arctic.
