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Philip Hultquist, PhD, Director, Global & National Security Policy Institute and Research Professor, Department of Political Science, University of New Mexico.
Thursday, January 29, 2026, 4:00 p.m.
Botts Hall, Albuquerque Special Collections Library
423 Central NE, Albuquerque, NM 87102 (Central and Edith)
AIA kicks off the new year with a lecture by Dr. Philip Hultquist of the University of New Mexico’s Global and National Security Policy Institute. As mainland China’s rapidly modernizes its military, the Trump Administration faces the increasing challenges of maintaining its “strategic ambiguity” deterrence policy over Taiwan. This talk will discuss the history of the US-PRC-Taiwan relationship, the current policy of “strategic ambiguity,” and the approach the US Indo-Pacific Strategy has taken to maintain effective deterrence. Dr. Hultquist will analyze the strengths and weaknesses of US Taiwan strategy from Biden to Trump 2.0 and provide recommendations to rise to the China challenge in the Taiwan Strait.
Dr. Philip Hultquist is the Director of the Global and National Security Policy Institute and a Research Professor for the Department of Political Science at UNM. His research focuses on international relations, deterrence, and strategy with a specialty on India and the Indo-Pacific. His prior research has covered irregular warfare, state targeting and repression in counterinsurgencies, peace settlements in civil wars, state and social politics of hydroelectric dams in India, and countering violent extremists in the Khalistan insurgency in India. His work has appeared in World Development, Journal of Peace Research, PS: Political Science and Politics, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and the Journal of Punjab Studies. Current research focuses on two areas of US Indo-Pacific Strategy: the role of non-traditional partners and improving deterrence in the Taiwan Strait. He previously taught at the US Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies and at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He holds an MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of New Mexico.
$15 for AIA Members; $20 for Non-Members; Students under 30 with ID – Free.
Pay online or mail check made out to AIA by January 27th to: AIA, PO Box 92921, Albuquerque, NM 87199.
