Christopher Coker is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics. He is the author of many books, including The Improbable War: China, the US, and the logic of Great Power Conflict (2015) and Future War (2016). Coker has been a Visiting Fellow to Staff College (Oslo), the Defense College (Stockholm), the National Institute of Defense Studies (Tokyo), the Rajaratnam Centre (Singapore), and the Institute of Security Studies (Bangkok).