Adam P. MacDonald, a former Regular Force naval officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, is a PhD student in the Political Science Department at Dalhousie University whose research interests include international security issues, specifically military developments in the Arctic and East Asia. Receiving his BA from the Royal Military College of Canada (2008) and MA from the University of Victoria (2009), he has written for a number of Canadian and international defence and security journals including Asian Affairs: An American Review, the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, the Canadian Naval Review and International Journal as well as several think-tanks including the East Asia Forum, the Canadian Defence Associations Institute, Frontline Defence and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.